New car taxation and its unintended environmental consequences

The unintended consequences of environmental justice

The article commences with a discussion of the Title VI issues that arise when a member of industry contemplates locating a facility in a community. Since the early 1990's there has been an increase in the claims that poor minority communities bear a disproportionate amount of the negative health and environmental risks (referred to as environmental racism) of the siting of hazardous facilities...

Unintended Consequences: New Problems, New Solutions

Objective: To select the best of the 2015 published papers on unintended consequences of healthcare information technology (HIT). Method: Literature searches in several areas of scholarship, including IT, human factors, evaluation studies, medical errors, medical informatics, and implementation science. Also, because the specific terms “unintended consequences” were not often included in abstra...

The Pursuit of Efficiency and Its Unintended Consequences: Contract Withdrawals in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program

This article analyzes why the USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) experiences contract withdrawals. Among approved contracts, 17%withdrew one ormore conservation practices. After presenting a model of producers’ behavior, a logit model is used to examine thewithdrawalphenomenon.Withdrawals are linked toproducershaving an incentive to include low cost-share payments and practi...

Unintended environmental consequences and co-benefits of economic restructuring.

Current economic restructuring policies have ignored unintended environmental consequences and cobenefits, the understanding of which can provide foundations for effective policy decisions for green economy transformation. Using the input-output life cycle assessment model and taking China as an example, we find that household consumption, fixed capital formation, and export are main drivers to...

Unintended Consequences.