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Air Pollution – Economics

I am interested in how economic growth relates to urban air quality. This paper presents a VAR-based model for analyzing the question and provides some plausible answers to what caused the postwar decoupling of US growth and pollution.
My one foray into the political science of environmental policy argues that Canadians have not historically based their votes on environmental outcomes. Despite all the current hoopla about the environment being at the top of the polls, I still expect that it does not affect party preferences that are formed on other bases than environmental platforms.
The Fraser Institute is putting out a book on Canadian environmental policy. I wrote the chapter on air pollution, and I think it does a good job explaining the current situation and proposing how future developments should be focused. I was writing it while the federal Conservatives were floundering around with their Green Plan, whose eventual form I think was pretty inferior.
This little article uses some international comparisons to talk about general priority-setting in economic development policy.
This article explains how I’d deal with transportation-induced air pollution in cities.
These op-eds critique the recent federal air quality/health index and the proposed new regulatory initiative by the federal Conservatives.