TY - JOUR
T1 - Transforming incinerators into community amenities? The Seoul experience
AU - Han, Albert T.
AU - Laurian, Lucie
AU - Go, Min Hee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Newcastle University.
PY - 2020/7/2
Y1 - 2020/7/2
N2 - This article explores the possibility that pairing desirable community amenities with polluting, industrial, or otherwise unwanted sites, such as waste incinerators, may have the potential to mitigate, or even compensate for, some of their negative local impacts. The environmental justice literature shows that polluting sites tend to disproportionately affect low income and disenfranchised communities. Could this be reversed or mitigated by linking positive amenities to polluting sites? The South Korean experiment of building community amenities (recreation centers, pools, gyms, etc.) at waste incinerators may provide answers to this intriguing question. Using the Difference-in-Differences design we found that while incinerators without amenities have substantial negative impacts on local land and real estate markets, we did not observe any such impact in areas with incinerators that have amenity features. Thus, the amenity features of the incinerators (along with enhanced regulatory emissions standards) are mitigating the negative economic impacts of incinerators.
AB - This article explores the possibility that pairing desirable community amenities with polluting, industrial, or otherwise unwanted sites, such as waste incinerators, may have the potential to mitigate, or even compensate for, some of their negative local impacts. The environmental justice literature shows that polluting sites tend to disproportionately affect low income and disenfranchised communities. Could this be reversed or mitigated by linking positive amenities to polluting sites? The South Korean experiment of building community amenities (recreation centers, pools, gyms, etc.) at waste incinerators may provide answers to this intriguing question. Using the Difference-in-Differences design we found that while incinerators without amenities have substantial negative impacts on local land and real estate markets, we did not observe any such impact in areas with incinerators that have amenity features. Thus, the amenity features of the incinerators (along with enhanced regulatory emissions standards) are mitigating the negative economic impacts of incinerators.
KW - amenities
KW - environmental justice
KW - impact mitigation
KW - incinerators
KW - property values
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074580498&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2019.1670626
DO - 10.1080/09640568.2019.1670626
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074580498
SN - 0964-0568
VL - 63
SP - 1427
EP - 1452
JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
IS - 8
ER -