Urban pollution: a global perspective
- We use worldwide gridded satellite data to analyse how population size and density affect urban PM 2.5 pollution. We find that more populated and denser grid cells are more exposed to pollution. However, across urban areas, exposure increases with cities’ population size but decreases with density. Moreover, the population effect is driven mostly by population commuting to core cities rather than the core city population itself. We analyse heterogeneity by geography and income levels. A counterfactual simulation shows that exposure could fall by up to 40% if population size were equalized across all cities within countries, but the relocation of population from large to small cities that maximizes welfare would be small.
Author details: | Rainald BorckORCiDGND, Philipp SchrauthORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103013 |
ISSN: | 0095-0696 |
ISSN: | 1096-0449 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of environmental economics and management |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2024/06/04 |
Publication year: | 2024 |
Release date: | 2024/07/10 |
Volume: | 126 |
Article number: | 103013 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Peer review: | Referiert |