RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Locational Dimensions of Utility for Transboundary Pollutants
JF Land Economics
JO Land Econ
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 082924-0078R1
DO 10.3368/le.102.1.082924-0078R1
A1 Meginnis, Keila
A1 Börger, Tobias
A1 de Vries, Frans P.
A1 Hanley, Nick
A1 Johnston, Robert J.
A1 Ndebele, Tom
A1 Siyal, Ghamz E Ali
YR 2025
UL http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2025/07/22/le.102.1.082924-0078R1.abstract
AB Theoretical models of transboundary pollutants impose simplifying restrictions on the locational and/or spatial dimensions of utility. This includes assumptions that citizens in each country care only about domestic environmental damages; or that pollution is a pure public bad for which the location of damages is irrelevant to welfare impacts. This paper empirically examines the applicability of such assumptions for a case study of marine plastic pollution. The data are from mirror-image, cross-country discrete choice experiments in the UK and US. Results suggest that common simplifying assumptions in the theoretical literature have questionable applicability to transboundary pollutants such as marine plastics.