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Three Essays on the Transboundary Spillover of Negative Environmental Externalities, Social Inequality, and Public Policy.

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Title/Author:	Three Essays on the Transboundary Spillover of Negative Environmental Externalities, Social Inequality, and Public Policy./
Author:	Chunsuttiwat, Pukitta.
Description:	1 online resource (309 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-11A.
Subject:	Public policy. -
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ISBN:	9798802712238

Three Essays on the Transboundary Spillover of Negative Environmental Externalities, Social Inequality, and Public Policy.
Chunsuttiwat, Pukitta.

Three Essays on the Transboundary Spillover of Negative Environmental Externalities, Social Inequality, and Public Policy. - 1 online resource (309 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation comprises three essays that collectively examine the dynamics between waste shipment, policy, and inequality in two contexts: hazardous waste shipment in the United States and the international plastic waste trade. The first essay evaluates the effectiveness and distributional impact of Missouri's out-of-state hazardous waste tax introduction. Results show that the tax introduction decreases the quantity of shipment into Missouri by over 35\\% and that the subsequent diversion of shipment does not put more burden on the non-white population. The second essay extends the evaluation of the distributional impact of hazardous waste shipment to a nationwide analysis, covering 48 contiguous states. I use the conditional logit model to evaluate how origin facilities choose shipment destinations. Results show that an origin is more likely to ship to a destination that has a higher of non-white residents than itself for treatment services. Destination facilities with a higher share of non-white residents are more likely to be selected for hazardous waste shipment, and this effect decreases with higher tax rates. The third essay examines similar issues in a global context. I evaluate factors that determine the trade diversion in the international plastic waste market following China's ban on plastic waste import in 2018. Results show that the plastic waste trade follows a pollution haven pattern, allocating waste from richer countries with better environmental regulations to poorer countries with weaker regulations. This pattern aggravates after the ban. These three essays suggest that waste shipment moves environmental burden from less marginalized locations to more marginalized locations and that public policy is a viable tool for altering waste shipment patterns.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798802712238Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Public policy.
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