La Trobe

Scoping review to understand the potential for public health impacts of transitioning to lower carbon emission technologies and policies

journal contribution
posted on 2020-12-15, 07:43 authored by Rachel ThamRachel Tham, Geoff Morgan, Shyamali Dharmage, Guy Marks, Christine Cowie
Background: The transformation of the global energy sector from fossil-based fuels to low/non-carbon fuels will reduce environmental pollutant load, which in turn will benefit human health. However, with upscaling of emerging renewable technologies and energy sources, it is important to identify the potential for unintended health impacts, and to understand where the knowledge gaps lie with respect to health. We aimed to identify these gaps by conducting a scoping review. Methods: We conducted a systematic search of Medline, Web of Science, PubMed and EMBASE. We used broad search terms to capture literature associated with energy transitioning to low/non-carbon energy sources or related technologies, combined with terms relevant to measuring or estimating health outcomes/impacts associated with environmental exposures. We included original epidemiological studies, reviews, health impact assessments (HIAs), life cycle assessments (LCAs), and modelling studies that examined health impacts.

Funding

This review was funded through a seed grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council funded Centre of Research Excellence, Centre for Air pollution, energy and health Research (CAR) (NHMRC APP1030259; [SEED05.2017]).

History

Publication Date

2020-06-26

Journal

Environmental Research Communications

Volume

2

Issue

6

Article Number

065003

Pagination

35p. (p. 1-35)

Publisher

Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing

ISSN

2515-7620

Rights Statement

The Author reserves all moral rights over the deposited text and must be credited if any re-use occurs. Documents deposited in OPAL are the Open Access versions of outputs published elsewhere. Changes resulting from the publishing process may therefore not be reflected in this document. The final published version may be obtained via the publisher’s DOI. Please note that additional copyright and access restrictions may apply to the published version.

Publisher DOI

Usage metrics

    Journal Articles

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Keywords

    Science & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineEnvironmental SciencesEnvironmental Sciences & Ecologyenergy transitionshealthHIALCAsreviewlow-carbonWIND TURBINE NOISECO-BENEFITSAIR-QUALITYENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITSSOLAR-ENERGYLIFE-CYCLEEXPOSUREPOLLUTIONTRANSPORTMITIGATION

    Licence

    CC BY 4.0

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC