Spatial Welfare Aspects of Limiring Air Pollution: the Danish Experience
Abstract
A city system is in balance when no benefit is obtained from moving from one city to another or from one place in the city to another. Air quality today has become important in evaluating quality of life. Air quality differs from city to city and from place to place. The purpose of this paper is, based on collected data, to make a model of the development of air pollution from cars by lead and NOx in Danish cities distributed in the city core and the periphery. The pollution is seen as a function of the number of cars, city size, and various initiatives to clean the air. The model shows that the relative gain of combating air pollution is at a maximum for the biggest towns and city cores and thereby shows that the competitive situation of big towns and city cores can be improved. The balance in the city system will thus be changed as a result of the anti-air pollution programs.References
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