The siting of a polluting facility in an urban environment

Miscellaneous · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:7070231

Griffin, J J

Siting of a trash incinerator to serve a medium-sized city is analyzed. A model of residential locational choice is developed. In the model, households gather to live in proximity to employment, which is assumed to be concentrated at a central point. Land prices and residential density adjust to reflect this preference for central location. Land prices also reflect variation in environmental characteristics over space, for example the level of ambient air quality at a given location. The question of siting an incinerator is addressed within this framework. Transport of waste is more costly if the incinerator is placed in a remote location while more households are affected by the external impacts of the incinerator if it is placed at a central location. A complication, previously unaddressed in locational analyses, arises from the realization that any incinerator location influences long-run residential locational choices. This work analyzes the impact of siting and related policy questions within a long-run framework, which takes full account of subsequent residential locational patterns. because of the complexity of the model, a computer simulation is designed to allow the solution of a long-run equilibrium.

• Research Organization: Boston Coll., Chestnut Hill, MA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7070231
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis (Ph.D.)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
INCINERATORS
SITE SELECTION
RESIDENTIAL SECTOR
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
MUNICIPAL WASTES
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
MANAGEMENT
SIMULATION
WASTES
320604* - Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization- Municipalities & Community Systems- Municipal Waste Management- (1980-)