scholarly journals Can Property Values Capture Changes in Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the UK

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Guignet ◽  
Anna Alberini
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Property Values ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Preference Study

Economic Value of Reducing Exposure to Environmental Health Risks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Kip Viscusi ◽  
Rachel Dalafave
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Revealed Preference ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Health Risks

Valuing the benefit of reduced exposures to environmental health risks requires assessment of the willingness to pay for the risk reduction. Usual measures typically estimate individual local rates of substitution between money and the reduced probability of the adverse health impact. Benefit-cost analyses then aggregate individuals’ willingness to pay to calculate society’s willingness to pay for the health risk reduction benefit. The theoretical basis for this approach is well established and is similar for mortality risks and health outcomes involving morbidity effects. Researchers have used both stated preference methods and revealed preference data that draw on values implicit in economic decisions. Continuing controversies with respect to valuation of environmental health impacts include the treatment of behavioral anomalies, such as the gap between willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept values, and the degree to which heterogeneity in values because of personal characteristics such as income and age should influence benefit values. A considerable literature exists on the value of a statistical life (VSL), the local tradeoff between fatality risk and money, which is used to value mortality risk reductions. Many VSL estimates use data from the United States for regulatory analyses of environmental policies, but several other countries have distinct valuation practices. There are empirical estimates of the benefits associated with reducing the risks of many environmental health effects, including cancer, respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal illnesses, and other health consequences that have morbidity effects.

Real or Perceived: The Environmental Health Risks of Urban Sack Gardening in Kibera Slums of Nairobi, Kenya

EcoHealth ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney Maloof Gallaher ◽  
Dennis Mwaniki ◽  
Mary Njenga ◽  
Nancy K. Karanja ◽  
Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Environmental Health Risks

scholarly journals Why Do Countries Regulate Environmental Health Risks Differently? A Theoretical Perspective

Risk Analysis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander C. S. Clahsen ◽  
Irene van Kamp ◽  
Betty C. Hakkert ◽  
Theo G. Vermeire ◽  
Aldert H. Piersma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Environmental Health Risks

Personalizing Pollution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norah MacKendrick
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Human Exposure ◽  
Environmental Chemicals ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Broad Application ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Temporary Solution

This chapter reveals how the environmental health movement came together to call for a broad application of a strong precautionary principle in environmental regulation, and worked hard to lobby for global and domestic policy change. As the movement presented evidence of widespread human exposure to environmental chemicals, it faced the question of how to help people understand how to contend with this exposure. Precautionary consumption was the answer. Organizations circulated a message that gendered environmental health risks in a way that understands women’s bodies as the primary pathway through which contamination enters fetal and infant bodies. Specifically, it is women’s domestic labor that provides a temporary solution to prevent contamination. Thus, this chapter tells the story of how the environmental health movement came to take a personalized and gendered approach, and why the movement is a significant part of the story behind the rise of precautionary consumption.

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