The environmental costs and benefits of special economic zones

本项目旨在评估企业空间集聚的环境影响。利用越来越多的地理参考经济数据，该项目将评估中国、印度和哥伦比亚促进产业集群的政策的环境成本和收益。收集的数据集将与从会计数据归因于环境污染测量的公司水平排放的趋势相匹配，而环境污染测量来自地面监测仪和卫星。该项目将调查经济增长和工业排放之间的相互作用，并在更好地理解产业集群是否减轻或加剧当地和全球制造业排放的基础上提出建议。

This project aims to evaluate the environmental impacts of the spatial concentration of firms. Taking advantage of increasing availability of geo-referenced economic data, the project will evaluate the environmental costs and benefits of policies to promote industrial clusters in China, India, and Colombia. The collected datasets will match trends in firm-level emissions imputed from accounting data to ambient pollution measures derived from ground monitors and satellites. This project will investigate the interactions between economic growth and industrial emissions, and provide recommendations based on a better understanding of whether industrial clusters mitigate or exacerbate local and global emissions from manufacturing.