Purpose – Aims to focus on air pollution as one of the environmental problems that tends to improve at higher income levels. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a combination of narrative with argument and analysis. Findings – Between the early 1970s and the mid-1980s, air...

Purpose – Aims to focus on air pollution as one of the environmental problems that tends to improve at higher income levels. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a combination of narrative with argument and analysis. Findings – Between the early 1970s and the mid‐1980s, air...