Smog can Cost More than What We are Earning Now: A Case Study of Fangshan District in Beijing, China

摘要

Smog is a kind of air pollution, which is really a serious environmental problem that can be found all over the world, and it is mainly caused by industrialization and urbanization. It is covering most of regions in China recently [28]. According to Xudong Zhu (2013), ninety percent of causes of the smog are from human movements, especially movements on energy consumption and pollutant discharge, especially from the industrial production. In this study, a research on the causes of smog at general level and local level of Fangshan has been done. Also the impacts of smog on human health and socio-economic development have been analyzed; the study researched on the impacts only based on aspects directly related to human wellbeing. Both the discussions on causes of smog and on impacts of smog on human wellbeing from three perspectives, the global perspective, the national level that focusing on general information of China, and the specific discussion on smog in Fnagshan, which is the local level. The reason why Fangshan has been chosen as the specific spot is that Fangshan now is impacted by smog seriously, and this study is done for calling for attention on the impacts of smog on human beings, particularly in Fnagshan, which could be an increasingly terrible environmental problem for every state in the world.