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Stated benefits from urban afforestation in an arid city : a contingent valuation in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

Muñoz-Pizza, Dalia M.; Villada-Canela, Mariana; … - 2020

The pervasiveness of particulate matter in arid cities has yet to be discussed and tackled. Given that urban trees have been documented to provide air-filtering and dry deposition services, this study documents the stated benefits from an urban afforestation scenario in Mexicali –an arid city...

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Impact of sustainable environmental expenditures policy on air pollution reduction, during European Integration Framework

Bostan, Ionel; Onofrei, Mihaela; Dascălu, Elena-Doina; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 42, pp. 286-302

Pursuant to the growth of society, against the boosting of scientific and technological progress, also arises the negative effect of pollution acceleration. In this context, we relate to risks that imply the growth of pollution, especially against nuisance air pollution increase (CO, SO2, NO...

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Spatial Heterogeneity in Environmental Regulation Enforcement and the Firm Location Decision among U.S. Counties

Morgan, O. Ashton; Condliffe, Simon - In: The Review of Regional Studies 39 (2009) 3, pp. 239-52

We estimate a negative binomial model with fixed effects to examine the impact of spatial differences in environmental regulation on manufacturing capital flows. Using a newly available data set, we find that stricter air quality standards with respect to ozone deter births of polluting plants,...

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Would central government's direct supervisions enhance local environmental qualities? : evidence from China

Hu, Zhilin - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 2, pp. 261-275

With the construction of ecological civilization, central government's direct inspections have become the new norm of environmental protection supervision. Since 2016, the central government has been dispatching supervision teams, one batch after another, to conduct environmental protection...

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From low emission zone to academic track : environmental policy effects on educational achievement in elementary school

Brehm, Johannes; Pestel, Nico; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2022

designated areas and have been shown to improve population health. Little is known about the effects of driving restriction … ausgewiesenen Gebieten abhalten und nachweislich die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung verbessern. Über die Auswirkungen von Fahrverboten …

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A Review of the Literature on Telecommuting and Its Implications for Vehicle Travel and Emissions

Walls, Margaret; Safirova, Elena - 2004

In this paper, we review 20 relatively recent empirical studies of telecommuting, all of which focus on the trip reduction perspective. The studies include earlier ones with smaller datasets, such as some pilot studies of individual employers, and more recent studies based on broader surveys of...

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Who Changed Delhi's Air? The Roles of the Court and the Executive in Environmental Decisionmaking

Bell, Ruth; Narain, Urvashi - 2005

Although there is general public approval of the improvements in Delhi’s air quality in the recent years, the process by which this change was brought about has been criticized. A common perception is that air quality policies were prescribed by the Supreme Court, and not by an institution...

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Telecommuting and Emissions Reductions: Evaluating Results from the ecommute Program

Walls, Margaret; Nelson, Per-Kristian - 2004

In 1999 Congress passed the National Air Quality and Telecommuting Act. This Act established pilot telecommuting programs in five major U.S. metropolitan areas with the express purpose of studying the feasibility of addressing air quality concerns through telecommuting. This study provides the...

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Putting different price tags on the same health condition: Re-evaluating the well-being valuation approach

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1032-1043

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are compared across … different well-being measures within the same UK data set. We find that, whilst there is strong internal consistency of health …

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Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …

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