Urban environmental degradation and the standard of living: the case of the Spanish mining industry (1870–1930)
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Title: | Urban environmental degradation and the standard of living: the case of the Spanish mining industry (1870–1930) |
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Authors: | Escudero, Antonio | Pérez de Perceval, Miguel Á. | Sánchez-Picón, Andrés |
Research Group/s: | Internacionalización de la Empresa y Comercio Exterior |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado |
Keywords: | Urban environmental degradation | Standard of living | Mining industry | Spain |
Knowledge Area: | Historia e Instituciones Económicas |
Issue Date: | Dec-2015 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Citation: | Continuity and Change. 2015, 30(3): 395-421. doi:10.1017/S0268416015000399 |
Abstract: | This paper analyses the consequences of urban environmental degradation on the well-being of Spanish miners. It is based on analyses of differences in mortality and height. The first part of the paper examines new hypotheses regarding the urban penalty. We take into consideration existing works in economic theory that address market failures when analysing the higher urban death rate. We explain the reduction in height using the model recently created by Floud, Fogel, Harris and Hong for British cities. The second part of the paper presents information demonstrating that the urban areas in the two largest mining areas in Spain (Bilbao and the Cartagena-La Unión mountain range) experienced a higher death rate relative to rural areas as a consequence of market failures derived from what we term an ‘anarchic urbanisation’. |
Sponsor: | In the writing of this paper, the authors have drawn from the research projects coordinated by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness: HAR2010-21941-C03-01, 02 and 03; and HAR2014-56428-C3-1-P, C2-P and C3-P. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/53522 |
ISSN: | 0268-4160 (Print) | 1469-218X (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0268416015000399 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © Cambridge University Press 2015 |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0268416015000399 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - Internacionalización de la Empresa y Comercio Exterior - Artículos de Revistas |
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