Download or read book Assessing the Impact of Environmental Amenities on Residential Location Choice written by Mitchell R. Livy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates the influence of policies involving environmental amenities on residential location decisions. We develop and implement unique econometric models focused on controlling for differences in spatial scale when estimating non-market values. These models are applied to evaluate existing and proposed policies that impact the environment in the Chesapeake Bay region. The first chapter provides new evidence of the capitalized value of local parks by estimating the impact associated with renovations of specific local park attributes on surrounding home prices. These results shed light on an empirical puzzle in the existing literature that single-family residential homeowners have a surprisingly low valuation associated with living in close proximity to local parks. Using property fixed effects models with time-varying renovations data, we disaggregate the bundle of amenities comprising local parks and find that the capitalization of renovations is heterogeneous and depends on the specific park attributes undergoing renovation.
Download or read book Residential Location Choice written by Francesca Pagliara and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book presents a range of approaches used to model residential locations within the context of developing land-use and transport models. These approaches illustrate the range of choices that modellers have to make in order to represent residential choice behaviour. The models presented in this book represent the state-of-the-art and are valuable both as key building blocks for general urban models, and as representative examples of complexity science.
Download or read book The Impact of Environmental Amenities on Residential Development and Decision Making written by Pitchayaporn Tantihkarnchana and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following research focuses on environmental amenities and decision making. The first two chapters relate to the impact of open spaces and neighboring houses on real estate market and residential development pattern in Kittitas County, Central Washington. Kittitas County has an abundance of environmental amenities, which offers outdoor activities and attract individuals to migrate into the area. Examining individuals' value toward open spaces through property prices and analyzing the residential development pattern help the government form the policy that prevent these rural areas with open spaces from overdevelopment. The third chapter relates to decision making on the precaution level invested by the firm to prevent environmental damages and judge's decision on punitive damages punishment following the damages. By analyzing the interaction between the firm and the judge, it helps the judge choose the appropriate level of punishment in order to encourage the firm to invest in a proper precaution level.
Download or read book An Assessment Methodology for the Environmental Impact of Water Resource Projects written by Maurice L. Warner and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Length of Residency and the Importance of Environmental Amenities to Residential Location Decisions written by Judith Ellen Walker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Amenities and Regional Economic Development written by Todd L. Cherry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising U.S. income and wealth in recent decades have fueled an increase in consumption demand for environmental amenities. Many observers and researchers have argued that this at least in part underlies current differentials in economic growth across regions. This collection of key articles addresses the issues and more.
Download or read book The Role of Environmental Amenities in the Urban Economy written by Deyu Rao and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental amenities play an important role in residential location decisions, which in turn affect the concentration of consumption and production activities. In this paper, I develop and estimate a spatial general equilibrium model to examine how environmental amenities affect the spatial distribution of urban economic activities and their welfare consequences. The model characterizes household location and consumption decisions, production decisions, as well as urban agglomeration and dispersion forces. The empirical analysis leverages a natural experiment of pollution monitoring and information disclosure program and recovers key underlying parameters using fine-scale travel data on commuting and consumption trips and environmental amenities. The analysis shows that job access, residential amenities, and consumption access account for 49%, 30% and 21% of overall attractiveness of a residential location, respectively. A one-standard-deviation change in air quality leads to a 0.24-standard-deviation change in individuals' perceived amenity level. Counterfactual simulations suggest an 8.4% welfare gain if individuals were to fully incorporate environmental amenities into their decisions, compared to the scenario of not incorporating their impacts. The welfare difference is driven by changes in residential and workplace locations, as well as consumption and production decisions.
Download or read book Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning Creating Smart Cities written by Ercoskun, Ozge Yalciner and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological and technological (eco-tech) planning provides a possible response to the essential issues of sustainability and rehabilitation in rapidly growing urban spaces. Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities addresses the ecological, technological, and social challenges faced in the smart urban planning and design of settlements when using eco-technologies – from sustainable land use to transportation, and from green areas to municipal applications – with a focus on resilience. Containing research from leading international experts, this book provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies within the planning field.
Download or read book Sustainable Practices Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 1798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This reference explores some of the most recent developments in sustainability, delving into topics beyond environmental science to cover issues of sustainable economic, political, and social development"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book U S Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
Download or read book Shaping the Sierra written by Timothy P. Duane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy P. Duane documents the impact of rapid population growth on the culture, economy, and ecology of the Sierra Nevada since the late 1960s. He also recommends innovative policies for mitigating the negative effects of future population growth in this spectacular but threatened region, as well as throughout the rural West.
Download or read book Residential Location and Environmental Amenities written by Vincent Kerry Smith and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality written by Michèle Pezzagno and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, citizens advocate greater environmental sustainability, better services and the improvement of urban quality by promoting safer mobility, especially for the most vulnerable road users. Addressing these issues, Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality contains papers presented at the XXIII International Conference “Living and Walking in Cities” (Brescia, Italy, 15-16 June 2017). The contributions discuss town planning issues, look at best practices and research findings across the broad spectrum of urban and transport planning, with particular attention to the safety of pedestrians in the city. The main topics of the book are: - Urban regeneration. A focus on walkability (vulnerable road users; boosting and planning soft mobility) - Road safety and urban planning - vulnerable road users: planning for safety (integrated land use and transport planning; methodological approaches and case studies; integrated tools for town and transport planning; shaping public spaces and walkability; transport solutions for tourism) - Innovative and traditional solutions for Italian cities - Extra-European approaches to town and infrastructure planning - Different perspectives in road safety: prevention, infrastructure, sharing - Advances in road safety Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality is a powerful plea for a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive approach to urban mobility and planning, and will be of interest to academics, consultants and practitioners interested in these areas.
Download or read book A Behavioral Analysis of the Impact of Residential Location Upon Modal Choice written by Patrick S. McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Resilience written by Yoshiki Yamagata and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is on urban resilience – how to design and operate cities that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and economic downturns and how to recover from them. It is a collection of latest research results from two separate but collaborating research groups, namely, researchers in urban design and those on general resilience theory. The book systematically deals with the core aspects of urban resilience: systems, management issues and populations. The taxonomy can be broken down into threats, systems, resilience cycles and recovery types in the context of urban resilience. It starts with a discussion of systems resilience models, focusing on the central idea that resilience is a moving average of costs (a set of trajectories in a two-player game paradigm). The second section explores management issues, including planning, operating and emergency response in cities with specific examples such as land-use planning and carbon-neutral scenarios for urban planning. The next section focuses on urban dwellers and specific people-related issues in the context of resilience. Agent-based simulation of behaviour and perception-based resilience, as well as brand crisis management are representative examples of the topics discussed. A further section examines systems like public utilities – including managing power supplies, cyber-security issues and models for pandemics. It concludes with a discussion of the future challenges and risks facing complex systems, for example in resilient power grids, making it essential reading for a wide range of researchers and policymakers.
Download or read book Guidelines for Assessing the Environmental Impact of Public Mass Transportation Projects written by Alan M. Voorhees & Associates and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Combining Facts And Values In Environmental Impact Assessment written by Eric L. Hyman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. This book has grown from a research workshop that began at the University of North Carolina under the direction of Maynard Hufschmidt. Professor Hufschmidt's long-held interest in the incorporation of environmental and other social values into benefit-cost analysis led to a research project entitled, "The Role of Environmental Indicators in Water Resource Planning and Policy Development," funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior. That project brought together the authors of this volume for a two-year period during which the groundwork for this book was laid.
