Measuring Benefits for Air Quality from Survey Data

1987 ◽  
pp. 429-437
Author(s):  
Edna T. Loehman
Keyword(s):  
2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. e2018028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myung-Jae Hwang ◽  
Hae-Kwan Cheong ◽  
Jong-Hun Kim ◽  
Youn Seo Koo ◽  
Hui-Young Yun

Author(s):  
Bridget Lynn Hoffmann ◽  
Carlos Scartascini ◽  
Fernando G. Cafferata

Abstract Environmental policies are characterized by salient short-term costs and long-term benefits that are difficult to observe and to attribute to the government's efforts. These characteristics imply that citizens’ support for environmental policies is highly dependent on their trust in the government's capability to implement solutions and commitment to investments in those policies. Using novel survey data from Mexico City, we show that trust in the government is positively correlated with citizens’ willingness to support an additional tax approximately equal to a day's minimum wage to improve air quality and greater preference for government retention of revenues from fees collected from polluting firms. We find similar correlations using the perceived quality of public goods as a measure of government competence. These results provide evidence that mistrust can be an obstacle to better environmental outcomes.


Data in Brief ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 106169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Maria Barbieri ◽  
Baowen Lou ◽  
Marco Passavanti ◽  
Cang Hui ◽  
Daniela Antunes Lessa ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 02026
Author(s):  
Rui Wu ◽  
Honglei Xu ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Xiaowen Yang ◽  
Xiaoyu Tan ◽  
...  

The in-use diesel trucks have high use intensity, high mobility, and frequent excessive emissions, which have become one of the important air pollution sources. The Action Plan for Tackling the Challenges of Diesel Truck Pollution Control issued by the Chinese government requires the establishment of a national monitoring network for transport-related air pollution and the use of various means to monitor diesel truck emissions. This study briefly summarized the requirements for diesel truck emission monitoring and supervision. Relying on the highway network traffic survey data, a method for identifying the main route of regional highway freight transportation was proposed. Then referring to the experience of highway air quality monitoring networks at home and abroad, the article proposed layout methods for roadside air quality monitoring stations, vehicle remote sensing monitoring stations, and road inspection stations, which fills the gap in domestic methods. At last, a demonstration study on the layout plan for the in-use diesel truck emissions monitoring stations in Shanxi Province was carried out. Taking Shanxi’s main highway freight corridors as the key supervision area, this article screened out 44 roadside air quality monitoring stations, 24 vehicle remote sensing monitoring stations, and 15 road inspection stations.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando G. Cafferata ◽  
Bridget Lynn Hoffmann ◽  
Carlos Scartascini

Environmental policies are characterized by salient short-term costs and long-term benefits that are difficult to observe and to attribute to the government's efforts. These characteristics imply that citizens' support for environmental policies is highly dependent on their trust in the government's capability to implement solutions and commitment to investments in those policies. Using novel survey data from Mexico City, we show that trust in the government is positively correlated with citizens' willingness to support an additional tax approximately equal to a days minimum wage to improve air quality and greater preference for government retention of revenues from fees collected from polluting firms. We find similar correlations using the perceived quality of public goods as a measure of government competence. These results provide evidence that mistrust can be an obstacle to better environmental outcomes.


2011 ◽  
Vol 356-360 ◽  
pp. 1225-1228
Author(s):  
Chao Huang ◽  
Rong Wang ◽  
Zhi Ping Zhou

This paper conformed the indoor air quality evaluation of buildings in Lingui, using the designed evaluation system combined subjective assessment with objective evaluation. By calculating and analyzing the experiment data and survey data, the comfort and the main effecting factors of public buildings in Lingui was put forward herein. Eventually appropriate measures were proposed to improve the indoor air quality.


2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 2139-2150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Pantavou ◽  
Basil Psiloglou ◽  
Spyridon Lykoudis ◽  
Anastasios Mavrakis ◽  
Georgios K. Nikolopoulos

Author(s):  
J. B. Moran ◽  
J. L. Miller

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 provide the basis for a dramatic change in Federal air quality programs. The Act establishes new standards for motor vehicles and requires EPA to establish national ambient air quality standards, standards of performance for new stationary sources of pollution, and standards for stationary sources emitting hazardous substances. Further, it establishes procedures which allow states to set emission standards for existing sources in order to achieve national ambient air quality standards. The Act also permits the Administrator of EPA to register fuels and fuel additives and to regulate the use of motor vehicle fuels or fuel additives which pose a hazard to public health or welfare.National air quality standards for particulate matter have been established. Asbestos, mercury, and beryllium have been designated as hazardous air pollutants for which Federal emission standards have been proposed.


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