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DOI 10.1017/S1355770X06003470
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Titel (primär) Pollution-reducing infrastructure and urban environmental policy
Autor Quaas, M.
Quelle Environment and Development Economics
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
Department OESA
Band/Volume 12
Heft 2
Seite von 213
Seite bis 234
Sprache englisch
Abstract Pollution-reducing infrastructure is introduced in a general spatial equilibrium model of a monocentric city as a public good which serves to abate polluting emissions from households' consumption. This is an innovative extension to an urban economics model and motivated by stylized facts observed for the case of Bombay. It allows us to develop and analyse improved policy instruments to solve urban environmental problems.We demonstrate how the optimal density of people, goods consumption, and pollution-reducing infrastructure are interrelated and spatially distributed. The public-good character of infrastructure is shown to favour an increased infrastructural density all over the city in response to increased population size. In two settings of public and private infrastructural supply, we derive three interrelated and spatially differentiated policy instruments, by which the optimal allocation is implemented as a spatial market equilibrium.
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Quaas, M. (2007):
Pollution-reducing infrastructure and urban environmental policy
Environ. Dev. Econ. 12 (2), 213 - 234 10.1017/S1355770X06003470