Can individuals’ aversion to drug markets curb the benefits of decriminalization? We investigate effect two policies on housing demand in Netherlands: distance-to-school criterion, which closed some cannabis shops a few cities; and zero-tolerance policy, banned within municipal jurisdictions. While small increase distance retailers raised house prices by 1–5%, substantial reduced them 1–6%. Bot...

A solid waste management crisis exists in many parts of the US as a result of the inability to site new landfills to replace the consumed capacity of existing landfills. Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills can, and usually do, have a significant adverse impact on the individuals who own property in, reside in, or otherwise use, areas near the landfill. This leads those who stand to be adverse...

BACKGROUND Many policymakers, researchers and commentators argue that hospital closures are necessary as health systems adapt to new technological and financial contexts, and as population health needs in developed countries shift. However closures are often unpopular with local communities. Previous research has characterised public opposition as an obstacle to change. Public opposition to the...

This is the first study to comprehensively evaluate benefit of urban open spaces and cropland with different adjacent public facilities seen as locally undesirable (“not in my backyard”, NIMBY) or desirable (“yes YIMBY). The total increases decreases for space NIMBY YIMBY a municipality Taiwan. results show that city whole, current arrangement zones highly urbanized damage extremely rural zones...

This paper elucidates the manner in which users of an online decision support system respond to spatially distributed data when assessing the solution to environmental risks, specifically, nuclear waste disposal. It presents tests for revealing whether users are responding to geographical data and whether they are influenced by their home location (Not in My Back Yard – style behavior). The tes...

Time delay spread and path loss measurements were performed in a large, active train yard to support development of intra-yard wireless communication systems, such as those intended to communicate with individual railcars and for track-to-terminal communications. Propagation measurements focused on three sites within the train yard: a close-in site, a paralleltrack site, and a cross-track site....