Energy policies, agglomeration, and pollution
- This chapter reviews the interplay of agglomeration and pollution as well as the effect of energy policies on pollution in an urban context. It starts by describing the effect of agglomeration on pollution. While this effect is theoretically ambiguous, empirical research tends to find that larger cities are more polluted, but per capita emissions fall with city size. The chapter discusses the implications for optimal city size. Conversely, urban pollution tends to discourage agglomeration if larger cities are more exposed to pollution. The chapter then considers various energy policies and their effect on urban pollution. Specifically, it looks at the effects of energy and transport policies as well as urban policies such as zoning.
Author details: | Rainald BorckORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_421-1 |
ISBN: | 978-3-319-57365-6 |
Title of parent work (English): | Handbook of labor, human resources and population economics |
Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
Place of publishing: | Cham |
Editor(s): | Klaus F. Zimmermann |
Publication type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2023/07/05 |
Publication year: | 2023 |
Release date: | 2024/02/16 |
Number of pages: | 15 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Peer review: | Nicht ermittelbar |
External remark: | Living reference work entry |