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Knowledge About, Importance of, and Attitudes Towards Industrial Brownfield Re-use
Tonin, Stefania; Turvani, Margherita; Alberini, Anna - In: SCIENZE REGIONALI 2011/3 (2011) 3, pp. 97-126
The aim of this paper is to investigate people’s attitudes towards and knowledge about the remediation and re-use of brownfield sites. In order to understand people’s opinions, we administered a questionnaire to 400 residents in the surroundings of Venice. We applied factor analysis to gain...
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Air pollution and infant mortality: A natural experiment from power plant desulfurization
Luechinger, Simon - In: Journal of Health Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 219-231
The paper estimates the effect of SO2 pollution on infant mortality in Germany, 1985–2003. To avoid endogeneity problems, I exploit the natural experiment created by the mandated desulfurization at power plants and power plants’ location and prevailing wind directions, which together...
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Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program
Cropper, Maureen L.; Jiang, Yi; Alberini, Anna; Baur, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Ground-level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. We evaluate the costs and effectiveness of an episodic scheme that requires people to buy permits to...
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
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Air Pollution and Infant Health : What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?
Currie, Janet; Neidell, Matthew - 2004
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. In contrast, the experience of California in the 1990s is clearly relevant to...
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271282
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Getting cars off the road: the cost-effectiveness of an episodic pollution control program
Cropper, Maureen L.; Jiang, Yi; Alberini, Anna; Baur, … - 2010
Ground level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. We evaluate the costs and effectiveness of an episodic scheme that requires people to buy permits in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272390
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The benefits of contaminated site cleanup revisited: the case of Naples and Caserta, Italy
Alberini, Anna; Ščasný, Milan; Guignet, Dennis; … - 2010
Guerriero and Cairns (2009) recently estimate that contaminated sites and improper waste management result in 848 excess deaths per year in the provinces of Naples and Caserta in Southern Italy, 403 of which are fatal cancers. In the absence of estimates of the Value of a Prevented Fatality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272415
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273798
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Can Property Values Capture Changes in Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the UK
Guignet, Dennis; Alberini, Anna - 2013
among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. To our … quantitative and clearly specified measure of health risks. We find that Italian homeowners hold a value of a statistical life (VSL … find that those who face higher baseline risks, due to higher air pollution levels where they live, hold a higher VSL …
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