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Cities and the Environment
Kahn, Matthew E.; Walsh, Randall Phillip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
attributes such as local air pollution and green space. A city's greenness is a function of both its natural beauty and is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950970
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Chapter 7. Cities and the Environment
Kahn, Matthew E.; Walsh, Randall - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 405-465). 2015
such as local air pollution and green space. A city's greenness is a function of its natural beauty and is an emergent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025312
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Adapting to Flood Risk : Evidence from a Panel of Global Cities
Gandhi, Sahil; Kahn, Matthew E.; Kochhar, Rajat; Lall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Urban flooding poses danger to people and places. People can adapt to this risk by moving to safer areas or by investing in private self-protection. Places can offset some of the risk through urban planning and infrastructure investment. By constructing a global city data set that covers the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334356
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Does pollution hinder urban competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Soppelsa, Maria E. - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005055
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Chapter 56. Sprawl and Urban Growth
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2481-2527). 2004
Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024006
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The Evolving Geography of China's Industrial Production: Implications for Pollution Dynamics and Urban Quality of Life
Kahn, Matthew E.; Zheng, Siqi; Sun, Cong; Qi, Ye - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
survey examines recent work that studies the economic geography of industrial production, per-capita income, pollution and … that together determine the new economic geography of industry and pollution within China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095621
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Sprawl and urban growth
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005271413
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Carbon Geography: The Political Economy of Congressional Support for Legislation Intended to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Production
Kahn, Matthew E.; Cragg, Michael I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Stringent regulation for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions will impose different costs across geographical regions. Low-carbon, environmentalist states, such as California, would bear less of the incidence of such regulation than high-carbon Midwestern states. Such anticipated costs are likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005052160
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Environmental Valuation Using Cross-City Hedonic Methods
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014
attributes ranging from air pollution, to open space, to earthquake risk. Rather than reviewing this enormous literature, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012710169
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Do Environmentalists Practice What They Preach? Environmental Ideology as a Determinant of Voting and Private Consumption Choice
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014
In California, Green Party and Democratic Party communities vote in favor of ballot initiatives that are pro-environment while Republican Party communities are less likely to vote in favor of such initiatives. Given that these ideology measures have predictive power in political markets, do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066263