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C. Arden Pope III
Nationality:American
Occupation:Professor
Known For:Studies on the health effects of air pollution
Notable Works:Respiratory hospital admissions associated with PM10 pollution in Utah, Salt Lake, and Cache Valleys (1991), An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities (1993), Particulate air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of U.S. adults (1995).
Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics
Alma Mater:Iowa State University (PhD, MS)
Brigham Young University (BS)
Employer:Brigham Young University

C. Arden Pope III (born c. 1954) is an American professor of economics at Brigham Young University and one of the world's foremost experts[1] [2] [3] in environmental science. He received his B.S. from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1978 and his Ph.D. in economics and statistics from Iowa State University in 1981. Although his research includes many papers on topics in the fields in which he was trained—environmental economics, resource economics, and agricultural economics—he is better known for his cross-disciplinary work in environmental epidemiology and public health. He is world-renowned for his seminal work on the effects of particulate air pollution on mortality and health. His articles have helped establish the connection between air pollution and health problems, including cancer, cardiovascular, and pulmonary disease. These research findings have influenced environmental policy in the United States and Europe, contributing to the establishment of emission standards for particulate matter pollution.

Air pollution research

Early in Pope's career he published a paper that made him an academic cornerstone of environmental science and policy called "Respiratory hospital admissions associated with PM10 pollution in Utah, Salt Lake, and Cache Valleys".[4] In Utah Valley, the Geneva Steel Mill generated large quantities of particulate matter, a byproduct of fossil fuel consumption. The mill was shut down temporarily in 1986-87 as U.S. Steel sold the facility to new ownership. Pope compiled hospital admissions data for the time before, during, and after the temporary closing of the mill and was the first to convincingly show the immediate health harms associated with atmospheric particulate matter.[5] Asthma, mortality, and respiratory admissions generally were twice as high while the plant was operating than the year in which it was closed. Utah made a particularly suitable natural experiment as the various valleys included in the study trap pollution in the winter months when temperature inversions stifle the escape of pollution. His abstract states:

Pope came under political pressure and his findings provoked controversy.[6] [7] Later scrutiny revealed his results were accurate.

Six Cities and American Cancer Society studies

Pope worked with Douglas Dockery of Harvard University on a 16-year scientific study of air pollution in six major cities in the United States, which published its findings in 1993.[8] Known as the Harvard Six Cities study, it proved to be a milestone in establishing the human health effects associated with long-term exposure to fine particulate pollution, and remains one of the most highly citied studies of air pollution ever published.[9] Like Pope's Utah Valley research, the Six Cities study proved intensely controversial.[10] [11] The study's conclusions were affirmed in 2000 after a three-year-long independent analysis carried out by the Health Effects Institute.[12] They have also been supported by numerous follow-up studies.[13]

Pope and Dockery also collaborated on a long-term study of the effects of air pollution on over half a million people from 151 urban areas, which published its first results in 1995. Informally known as the American Cancer Society study, it found that long-term exposure to particulates was linked to cardiopulmonary and lung cancer mortality.[14]

Awards

In 2004 Pope was awarded the Utah Governor's Medal in Science and Technology.[15]

In 2006 Pope was recognized as BYU's distinguished faculty, receiving the Karl G. Maeser award.[16]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: A Chinese Child's Lung Cancer Is Linked to Pollution. https://web.archive.org/web/20131108221854/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131108-lung-cancer-childhood-china-pollution-eight-year-old-girl/. dead. November 8, 2013. National Geographic. 10 November 2013. Brink. Susan. We talked with C. Arden Pope, economics professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research into the effects of air pollution on human health and mortality has been instrumental in establishing federal air quality regulations..
  2. Web site: Holding Your Breath in India. New York Times. 29 May 2015. Harris. Gardiner. C. Arden Pope III, a professor of economics at Brigham Young University and a leading expert on the health consequences of air pollution....
  3. Web site: Is Beijing air as bad as you think?. Time Out Beijing. 7 May 2014. ...Dr C Arden Pope III, one of the world's top environmental science experts....
  4. 10.1080/00039896.1991.9937434 . Pope . C. A. . Respiratory hospital admissions associated with PM10 pollution in Utah, Salt Lake, and Cache Valleys . Archives of Environmental Health . 1991 . 46 . 2 . 90–97 . 2006899.
  5. C.A. Pope, 1989. "Respiratory Disease Associated with Community Air Pollution and a Steel Mill, Utah Valley". American Journal of Public Health, May 1989, Vol. 79, No. 5, 623–628
  6. News: Cushman, Jr. . John H. . Utah Mill Lies at Heart of Fight for Air Pollution Limits . 19 August 2021 . The New York Times . 21 January 1997.
  7. Book: Phalen . Robert . The Particulate Air Pollution Controversy A Case Study and Lessons Learned . 2007 . Springer . 9780306482083.
  8. Dockery. Douglas W.. Pope. C. Arden. Xu. Xiping. Spengler. John D.. Ware. James H.. Fay. Martha E.. Ferris. Benjamin G.. Speizer. Frank E.. Frank E. Speizer. Douglas Dockery. An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities. New England Journal of Medicine. 9 December 1993. 329. 24. 1753–1759. 10.1056/NEJM199312093292401. 8179653. free.
  9. Web site: Clearing the Air . Harvard Magazine . May 2005 . 15 October 2015 . Shaw, Jonathan.
  10. Web site: Grant . Elaine . Prevailing winds . Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health . 21 August 2021 . Fall 2012.
  11. Kaiser . Jocelyn . Showdown over clean air science . Science . 25 July 1997 . 277 . 5325 . 466–469 . 10.1126/science.277.5325.466 . 2892518 . 9254414 . 28219089 .
  12. Book: Krewski . Daniel . Reanalysis of the Harvard Six Cities Study and the American Cancer Society Study of Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality . July 2000 . Health Effects Institute . Cambridge, MA. . 21 August 2021.
  13. Pope . C. Arden . Dockery . Douglas W. . Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that Connect . J Air & Waste Manage Assoc . 2006 . 56 . 6 . 709–742 . 10.1080/10473289.2006.10464485 . 16805397 . 8299285 . free .
  14. Pope . C. Arden . Thun . M.J. . Namboodiri . M.M. . Dockery . D.W. . Evans . J.S. . Speizer . F.E. . Heath, Jr. . C.W. . Particulate air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of U.S. adults . Am J Respir Crit Care Med . March 1995 . 151 . 3_pt_1 . 669–74 . 10.1164/ajrccm/151.3_Pt_1.669 . 7881654 .
  15. Web site: C. Arden Pope III. 2021-06-02. Economics.
  16. Web site: BYU honors outstanding faculty, staff at Annual University Conference . 2006-08-25.

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