Implementation of the Polluter-Pays Principle (PPP) in local transport policy

Calvin Jephcote, Haibo Chen and Karl Ropkins

Journal of Transport Geography, 2016, vol. 55, issue C, 58-71

Abstract: Previous research has highlighted significant socio-environmental inequalities in the UK and elsewhere. A city's greatest polluters typically reside in affluent suburban communities located along the city's periphery, while those creating the least emissions reside in central locations, and most likely experience the largest associated health burdens. Using the culturally diverse city of Leicester as a study case, and building on Mitchell and Dorling's (2003) localised form of the Polluter Pays Principle, we investigate this environmental injustice. A pattern detection analysis of localised intra-urban interactions was undertaken using a ‘Local Indicators of Spatial Association’ (LISA) modelling approach of high resolution census data, Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) records, road transport emission maps and geocoded hospital admissions records provided by the NHS Leicester City Primary Care Trust.

Keywords: Air pollution; Deprivation; Environmental Justice (EJ); Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA); Polluter-Pays Principle (PPP); Transport policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.06.017

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