征稿期刊

Environment and Development Economics

期刊级别

SSCI (JCR 2023)

IF 2.2

Q2 (ECONOMICS 187/600)

Q3 (ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 109/182)

征稿主题

The Political Economy of Clean Air Transitions

细分领域

Although poor air quality sporadically plagues some of the richest cities in the world, the causes are often quite different from those in the rapidly growing urban metropolises of the global South, where weak governance and poverty together limit the ability of cities to transition to clean fuel and efficient public transport. Environment and Development Economics invites submissions for a special issue collating case-studies of policies to improve urban air quality in  emerging economies. The focus of the volume will be on the political and institutional responses to policy change. The purpose of the Special Issue is to advance our understanding of why changes that are welfare-improving in the aggregate are easy to implement in some cities but difficult in others and what types of transfer arrangements can make change feasible. 

Each paper should be a case study of a particular policy reform or set of policies, that may or may not have been successful. Papers should address the political economy of policy-making and implementation. A paper can be entirely qualitative or both qualitative and quantitative. The primary motivation for such a special issue is that the institutional knowledge that is required to understand policy successes and failures is often lacking, making it difficult to interpret estimates of impact already in the literature.

重要时间

Submission Deadline: 31 March 2025

原文：https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environment-and-development-economics/announcements/call-for-papers/the-political-economy-of-clean-air-transitions