{"id":3541,"date":"2022-01-01T15:26:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:30:11","slug":"environmental-policies-benefit-economic-development-implications-of-economic-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2022\/01\/01\/environmental-policies-benefit-economic-development-implications-of-economic-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Policies Benefit Economic Development: Implications of Economic Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"authors\">Seth Morgan, Alexander Pfaff, Julien Wolfersberger<\/div>\n<div class=\"published\">Annual Review of Resource Economists (2022) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-resource-111920-<br \/>\n022804<\/div>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/08\/Morgan-Pfaff-Wolfersberger-2022-Annual-Reviews-Resource-Economics-111920-022804.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2205 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/06\/pdf-icon-50x50-1.png\" alt=\"pdf link icon\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">For over a century, starting with the work of Alfred Marshall (and also in resource economics), economic geography has emphasized the productivity of dense urban agglomerations. Yet little attention is paid to one key policy implication of economic geography\u2019s core mechanisms: Environmental policies can aid economic development, per se\u2014not hurting the economy to help the environment but advancing both objectives.We review mechanisms from economic geography that imply that environmental policies can deliver such win-wins: influences upon agglomeration of long-tanding natural conditions, like usable bays, which long were perceived as fixed yet now are being shifted by global environmental quality; agglomeration\u2019s effects on other influential conditions, like urban environmental quality; and the effects of rural environmental quality on the flows to cities of people and environmental quality. Finally, we consider a geographic policy typology in asking why society leaves money on the table by failing to promote environmental policies despite the potential win-wins that we highlight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Morgan, Alexander Pfaff, Julien Wolfersberger Annual Review of Resource Economists (2022) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-resource-111920- 022804 For over a century, starting with the work of Alfred Marshall (and also in resource economics), economic geography has emphasized the productivity of dense urban agglomerations. Yet little attention is paid to one key policy implication of economic geography\u2019s core mechanisms: Environmental policies can aid economic development, per se\u2014not hurting the economy to help the environment but advancing both objectives.We review mechanisms from economic geography that imply that environmental policies can deliver such win-wins: influences upon agglomeration of long-tanding natural conditions, like usable bays, which long were perceived as fixed yet now are being shifted by global environmental quality; agglomeration\u2019s effects on other influential conditions, like urban environmental quality; and the effects of rural environmental quality on the flows to cities of people and environmental quality. Finally, we consider a geographic policy typology in asking why society leaves money on the table by failing to promote environmental policies despite the potential win-wins that we highlight. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,47,33,39],"tags":[80,87,201,202],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-196","category-theory","category-global","category-land-use-climate-mitigation","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-geography","tag-resources","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Environmental Policies Benefit Economic Development: Implications of Economic Geography - 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