Spatial Regulation of Air Toxics Hot Spots
This paper analyzes the potential implications, in terms of net social costs and distribution of risks and abatement costs, of a policy to address the problem of air toxics “hot spots.” The policy we analyze involves regulation of air toxics sources at increasingly finer spatial resolutions. We develop a model of a decisionmaker choosing emission standards within a net cost minimization framework. Empirical application of the model to two counties in Florida demonstrates that regulation at finer resolutions could involve trade‐offs between net social costs and equitable distribution of risks and, in some settings, between individual and population risks.
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2015
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Authors: | Turaga, Rama Mohana R. ; Noonan, Douglas ; Bostrom, Ann |
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Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., ISSN 0276-8739. - Vol. 34.2015, 2, p. 298-327
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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