The study uses geographic information science (GIS) and statistics to find out if there are statistical differences between full term and preterm births to non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic mothers in their exposure to air pollution and access to environmental amenities (green space and vendors of healthy food) in the second largest city in New England, Worcester, Massachuset...

Efforts to identify and implement an appropriate tax neutrality benchmark have been persistent themes in scholarly policy debates on international taxation for fifty years. This paper questions whether the concept of has adequately specified analyzing efficiency properties systems. As distinct from closed-economy setting, open-economy neither revenues received nor burdens that pay may be taken ...

The Article responds to the school of thought reflected in the book “Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing” that opposes the economists’ attempts to monetize the value of environmental amenities and the value of risks to life and health. It applies the value of statistical life (”VSL”) concept to regulatory decisions in order to decide whether the adoption of a ...

This paper provides a theoretical explanation for the widely debated empirical finding of “Environmental Kuznets Curves”, i.e., U-shaped relationships between per-capita income and indicators of environmental quality. We present a household-production model in which the degradation of environmental quality is a by-product of household activities. Households can not directly purchase environment...

Sustainability now influences government policy in the UK, Australia and USA and planning policy currently advocates high density, mixed-use residential developments in ‘walkable’, permeable neighbourhoods, close to public transport, employment and amenities. This clearly demonstrates the growing popularity, influence and application of New Urbanist ideas. This article reviews the criminologica...

OBJECTIVE To explore associations between residents' perceptions of the local residential environment and the likelihood of their smoking. DESIGN Using data (n = 2615) from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study, separately by gender, cross-sectional associations between respondents' perceptions of neighbourhood (perceived absence of goods, incivilities and physical environmental problems) and ...