Download or read book A Method for Estimating the Local Area Economic Damages of Superfund Waste Sites written by David Ray Walker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund EPA Cost Estimates are Not Reliable Or Timely written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Project III Development and testing of a methodology to identify the time cost and enforcement aspects of Superfund remediations written by Center for Hazardous Waste Management and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice written by Don Munton and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the politics of hazardous waste siting and explores promising new strategies for siting facilities. Existing approaches to waste siting facilities have almost entirely failed, across all industrialized countries, largely because of community or NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) opposition. This volume examines a new strategy, voluntary choice siting--a process requiring mutual decisions negotiated between facility developers and the host communities. This bottom-up approach preserves democratic rights, recognizes the importance of public perceptions, and addresses issues of equity. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of experts probes recent examples of waste facilities siting in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan. Both the successes and the failures presented offer practical insights into the siting process. The book includes an introductory review of the literature on facility siting and the NIMBY phenomenon as well as instructive essays on the use of voluntary processes in facilities siting. This book will be of value to policymakers, industry, and environmental groups, as well as to those working in environmental studies and engineering, political science, public health, geography, planning, and business economics.
Download or read book Coalition on Superfund Research Report Project III Development and testing of a methodology to identify the time cost and enforcement aspects of Superfund remediations written by Center for Hazardous Waste Management (IIT Research Institute) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values written by A. Myrick Freeman and published by Resources for the Future. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-market valuation is becoming increasingly accepted as an evaluative tool of economics related to environmental and resource protection. Freeman (economics, Bowdoin College) presents an overview of the literature, introducing the principal methods and techniques of resource valuation. Chapters cover the measurement of welfare changes, revealed and stated preference models, nonuse models, aggregation of values across time, environmental quality as factor input, longevity and health valuation, property value models, hedonic wage models, and recreational uses of natural resource systems. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Environmental Economics written by Justin Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chapter of the dissertation examines the learning process that economic agents use to update their expectation of an uncertain and infrequently observed event. The standard Bayesian updating model is restrictive in that it reflects the strong neo-classical assumption that economic agents efficiently incorporate new information with all available information when updating beliefs. I consider the case of flooding and estimate the effect of first-hand experience on flood insurance take-up. I compile a new nation-wide panel dataset of large regional floods and flood insurance policies in the US. First, I show that flood insurance take-up in flooded communities increases by 9% after a flood and then steadily declines, fully dissipating after 9 years. Floods do not affect take-up in geographically neighboring non-flooded communities unless these communities are in the same media market. The take-up rate in non-flooded communities that share a media market with a flooded community is one-third as large as in flooded communities. I interpret this evidence using the standard Beta-Bernoulli Bayesian learning model and a Beta-Bernoulli model that includes a forgetting/first-hand experience parameter. I find that the standard Bayesian model can not explain both the spike in insurance in the year of a flood and the decay rate of this effect on insurance take-up in the years after the flood. I conclude that the evidence is most consistent with a Bayesian model augmented with a forgetting/first-hand experience parameter. The second chapter of my dissertation examines the causal link between localized exposure to hazardous waste pollutants from motor vehicle exhaust and adverse human health outcomes for newborns. I explore whether an exogenous event--the 1994 Northridge Earthquake--can be used as a quasi-experiment to test how birth outcomes change from a sudden and unexpected increase in pollution. The Northridge Earthquake closed down portions of four busy highways in Los Angeles, CA for periods of 1-6 months. The highway traffic was diverted onto secondary roads that previous to the earthquake had a much lower traffic volume. The paper focuses on two health outcomes for newborns: birth weight and gestation period. Infants born preterm or with low birth weight are less likely to survive infancy, more likely to suffer from childhood illness, and have lower future earnings. Overall the results of this study are inconclusive due to the relatively small number of new births included in the sample design. However, the results do suggest that a mother's race, age, and level of education are more important than proximity to a highway. Being a minority race, a teenage mother, or not having any college education are correlated with lower birth weight. The size of these correlations are approximately an order of magnitude larger than the point estimates for the effect of living in close proximity to a road with heavy traffic. The third chapter of the dissertation uses the housing market to develop estimates of the local welfare impacts of Superfund sponsored clean-ups of hazardous waste sites. We show that if consumers value the clean-ups, then the hedonic model predicts that they will lead to increases in local housing prices and new home construction, as well as the migration of individuals that place a high value on environmental quality to the areas near the improved sites. We compare housing market outcomes in the areas surrounding the first 400 hazardous waste sites chosen for Superfund clean-ups to the areas surrounding the 290 sites that narrowly missed qualifying for these clean-ups. We find that Superfund clean-ups are associated with economically small and statistically indistinguishable from zero local changes in residential property values, property rental rates, housing supply, total population, and the types of individuals living near the sites. These findings are robust to a series of specification checks, including the application of a regression discontinuity design based on knowledge of the selection rule. Overall, the preferred estimates suggest that the local benefits of Superfund clean-ups are small and appear to be substantially lower than the $43 million mean cost of Superfund clean-ups.
Download or read book Does Hazardous Waste Matter Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program written by Michael Greenstone and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses the housing market to develop estimates of the local welfare impacts of Superfund sponsored clean-ups of hazardous waste sites. We show that if consumers value the clean-ups, then the hedonic model predicts that they will lead to increases in local housing prices and new home construction, as well as the migration of individuals that place a high value on environmental quality to the areas near the improved sites. We compare housing market outcomes in the areas surrounding the first 400 hazardous waste sites chosen for Superfund clean-ups to the areas surrounding the 290 sites that narrowly missed qualifying for these clean-ups. We find that Superfund clean-ups are associated with economically small and statistically indistinguishable from zero local changes in residential property values, property rental rates, housing supply, total population, and the types of individuals living near the sites. These findings are robust to a series of specification checks, including the application of a regression discontinuity design based on knowledge of the selection rule. Overall, the preferred estimates suggest that the local benefits of Superfund clean-ups are small and appear to be substantially lower than the $43 million mean cost of Superfund clean-ups.
Download or read book Agricultural Economics Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Wage and Rent Shocks on Migration written by Seong-gwan Hong and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Month in Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology Alternatives for the Remediation of PCB contaminated Soil and Sediment written by B. Dávila and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brownfield Liability and Resource Issues written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Superfund Program Information Products 1994 written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Emergency and Remedial Response and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
