How Do Travellers Respond to Health and Environmental Policies to Reduce Air Pollution?

Orset, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.08.016

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“…IRSN (2019, 2020) suggests that health takes precedence of the environment among the French population; therefore, we expected the information on the health-energy link would have a stronger effect on the WTP of respondents than the information on the environmentenergy link. Our results also contrast with those in Lusk and Briggeman (2009) and Orset (2019) showing that respondents prioritized information about health. Our results for energy efficient household appliances and thermal insulation support Hypothesis 2, but do not support energy efficient boilers.…”

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Is information a good policy instrument to influence the energy behaviour of households?

Orset

2021

Energy Economics

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Despite several financial aids intended to promote the energy transition, the French people continue to buy energy-intensive products and are not interested in improving the energy performance of their homes. We propose a new measure which consists of provision of information to change individual behaviour. Currently, health and the environment are the prime concerns and we propose to encourage individuals to reduce their energy consumption by informing them of the environmental and health consequences linked to energy consumption. To test the validity of our proposal, we use the willingness to pay for more energy efficient equipment and thermal insulation. We conducted an online survey which included messages on the link between environment-energy and health-energy. We showed that it affected households' energy behaviour. We compared this strategy with policies already in place. We found that policies that combined provision of information with a subsidy, increase sales of goods that reduce energy consumption and was the best option from a social welfare perspective.

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Is information a good policy instrument to influence the energy behaviour of households?

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2021

Energy Economics

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“…Improve distribution of occupational and residential areas to reduce the traffic due to the imbalance between them. Promote green energy 29 , 30 . The government advocates vehicles with new energy, such as natural gas and electricity.…”

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“…Promote green energy 29 , 30 . The government advocates vehicles with new energy, such as natural gas and electricity.…”

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Research on PM2.5 concentration based on dissipative structure theory: a case study of Xi’an, China

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Hong

Liu

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PM2.5 pollution has become a serious urban environmental problem, especially in developing countries with increasing urbanization. Understanding the proportion of PM2.5 generation sources has laid a foundation for better PM2.5 concentration reduction This paper used Point of Interesting (POI)data, building profile data of Xi’an, PM2.5 concentration and wind monitoring data of five provinces near Xi’an as the basic data. And this paper studied the spatial distribution of various buildings in Xi’an, the temporal and spatial distribution of PM2.5 in Xi’an and the five provinces, and found that the spatial distribution of PM2.5 concentration in Xi’an and the building distribution in Xi’an does not match. Based on this, a quantitative model of PM2.5 concentration in Xi’an, energy consumption, wind, and other factors is established through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of PM2.5 concentration in Xi’an. Entropy theory and dissipative structure theory are applied to analyze this phenomenon. The results show PM2.5 in Xi’an mainly comes from the spread of PM2.5 in the five provinces. The PM2.5 generated by energy consumption in Xi’an is not enough to cause serious PM2.5 pollution. And further suggestions on how to reduce PM2.5 concentration in Xi’an are put forward.

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“…In this respect, local as well as global climate messages have been found to increase stated pro-environmental behaviour compared to a baseline (e.g. Scannell and Gifford 2011;Orset 2019).…”

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“…Also in the realm of stated pro-environmental engagement, a few studies find no difference between a local and a global climate perspective (e.g. Busse and Menzel 2014;Orset 2019). For instance, Mir et al (2016), who provided a sample of Tehran students with information about air pollution either in Tehran or in Beijing, find that the location, local or distant, makes no difference in the willingness to use environmentally friendly transport options.…”

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Do spatial climate messages increase pro-environmental engagement? Evidence from a survey experiment on public transport

Loessl

Weingärtner

Zitzelsberger

2022

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

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Using a survey experiment among a special sample composed of art house cinema visitors, we investigate whether spatial climate messages increase subjects' willingness to pay for an inclusion of public transport fares in cinema tickets as well as their willingness to use public transport in case such a combined ticket is introduced. Based on previous findings, we expect emphasizing the positive impact of public transport usage on the local level to have a greater effect on subjects' preferences for public transport than a message that highlights the global consequences. Contrary to these expectations, our results show that the global treatment increases subjects' willingness to pay compared to the local treatment and the baseline. Both treatments increase subjects' willingness to use public transport. Conducting a sub-sample analysis, we find that also the local message increases the willingness to pay for a combined ticket among respondents who lack a financial interest as they already own a season ticket for public transport.

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How Do Travellers Respond to Health and Environmental Policies to Reduce Air Pollution?

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Is information a good policy instrument to influence the energy behaviour of households?

Is information a good policy instrument to influence the energy behaviour of households?

Research on PM2.5 concentration based on dissipative structure theory: a case study of Xi’an, China

Do spatial climate messages increase pro-environmental engagement? Evidence from a survey experiment on public transport

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