Ten Years of Valuation of the Local Impact of Atmospheric Pollution: from Scientific Assessments to Political Decisions

Jean-Pierre Nicolas (), Fabien Duprez, Sandrine Durand, Fabrice Poisson, Pierre-Louis Aubert, Mireille Chiron (), Yves Crozet () and Jacques Lambert ()
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Jean-Pierre Nicolas: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fabien Duprez: CERTU - Centre d'études sur les réseaux, les transports, l'urbanisme et les constructions publiques - Avant création Cerema
Sandrine Durand: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fabrice Poisson: INRETS/LTE - Laboratoire Transport et Environnement - INRETS - Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité
Pierre-Louis Aubert: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Mireille Chiron: UMRESTTE - Unité Mixte de Recherche Epidémiologique et de Surveillance Transport Travail Environnement UMRT9002 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - INRETS - Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité - INVS - Institut de Veille Sanitaire
Yves Crozet: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jacques Lambert: INRETS/LTE - Laboratoire Transport et Environnement - INRETS - Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité

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Abstract: This paper focuses on the economic valuation of the impact of local air pollution. Two main issues are considered: 1. The scientific issue: what is estimated, how and why? The main studies from the nineties are presented here. Two strong issues are stressed, with the diversity of valuation methods, on the one hand, and the debates on how to take the long term into account and the discount technique, on the other. 2. The political issue: how the results from the economic field are analysed and used to establish official values for public policies? The methods used in the transport sector in three different European countries (France, Sweden and Switzerland) are studied here.To conclude, we highlight the discrepancy between these two processes and, wherever possible, offer solutions to reach better synergy.

Keywords: Local air pollution; External costs; Economic valuation; Official values; Public decision; International comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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Published in Atmospheric environment, 2005, 39 (13), pp. 2475-2482. ⟨10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.09.089⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.09.089

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