Department of Economics and Business, Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive Box 1680, Manchester, NH 03102-1310, USA.
J Environ Manage. 2019 Apr 1;235:112-123. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.01.033. Epub 2019 Jan 21.
This article further develops the literature on the local consequences of natural resource extraction by using newly collected county data from 1964 to 1988 to capture both short- and long-term mortality effects. The article identifies the net impact on mortality and provides evidence that throughout the majority of its distribution, increases in extractive industry activity are associated with small decreases in total and cancer mortality on a year-to-year basis. However, increases in extractive activity are associated with net increases in county-level total, cancer, and infant mortality in the long run, and at very high levels of activity, and are strongly impacted by coal mining activity. Additional analysis is required regarding the short- and long-run mechanisms, but the paper provides preliminary evidence that extractive activity and local community pollution are positively related.
本文通过使用新收集的 1964 年至 1988 年的县级数据，进一步探讨了自然资源开采对当地的影响，以捕捉短期和长期的死亡率效应。本文确定了对死亡率的净影响，并提供了证据表明，在其分布的大部分地区，采矿业活动的增加与每年总死亡率和癌症死亡率的小幅下降有关。然而，从长期来看，采矿业活动的增加与县级总死亡率、癌症死亡率和婴儿死亡率的净增长有关，而且在活动水平非常高的情况下，与煤矿开采活动密切相关。还需要对短期和长期机制进行进一步分析，但本文提供了初步证据，表明采矿业活动与当地社区污染呈正相关。
