University of Naples Parthenope, Department of Economic and Legal Studies, Via Generale Parisi 13, 80132, Napoli, Italy.
University of Naples Parthenope, Department of Management and Quantitative Studies, Via Generale Parisi 13, 80132, Napoli, Italy.
J Environ Manage. 2020 Jun 1;263:110272. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110272. Epub 2020 Mar 23.
Although urbanization has been a fundamental feature of economic development, increasingly important concerns about environmental quality have led to a wide-ranging debate about the concept of urban sustainability. In this paper, we examine how living in urban areas affects people's perceptions of two specific aspects of environmental quality, namely, air pollution and noise. Specifically, for every country, we develop an indicator that is based on these perceptions. The findings confirm that among European countries, the effects of urban agglomerations on the households' perceptions of environmental quality reflect a certain degree of heterogeneity. The proposed indicator provides new evidence about previously unexplored interactions between perceptions and macro-economic factors, such as income inequality, public spending on the environment and public debt. Through a comparison with an objective measure of the exposure of urban inhabitants to noise and air pollution, we find support for the intuition that subjective perceptions can be employed jointly with objective indicators to obtain full and comprehensive knowledge of the quality of urban environments.
虽然城市化一直是经济发展的基本特征，但对环境质量的日益重视引发了广泛的争论，探讨了城市可持续性的概念。本文研究了居住在城市地区如何影响人们对环境质量两个具体方面的看法，即空气污染和噪声。具体来说，我们为每个国家开发了一个基于这些看法的指标。研究结果证实，在欧洲国家中，城市群对家庭对环境质量的看法的影响反映出一定程度的异质性。所提出的指标为以前未探索过的感知与宏观经济因素（如收入不平等、环境公共支出和公共债务）之间的相互作用提供了新的证据。通过与城市居民暴露于噪声和空气污染的客观指标进行比较，我们发现支持这样一种直觉，即主观感知可以与客观指标一起使用，以获得对城市环境质量的全面和综合了解。
