Impacts of MARCHES

The MARCHES project will help inform policy-making

The guidance documents that result from the MARCHES project will enable public authorities (e.g. environmental, health and economic ministries) to directly apply estimates of the unit costs of air pollution and drinking water pollution in their impact assessments and socio-economic analyses.

In turn this will help diminish premature deaths among vulnerable groups, notably the chronically ill, elderly, infants and individuals with low socio-economic standing, and thereby also lower the burden of informal caretaking to the benefit of the individual and his/her relatives and/or network.

The projections of costs and benefit estimates made by MARCHES will enable evidence-based decision-making. The project will provide important input to policy making with impacts ultimately to be expected at local, regional, national, and European levels.