Distributional impacts on environmental impact assessment models Sample Clauses

Distributional impacts on environmental impact assessment models. In contrast to macroeconomic and energy system models, environmental impact assessment models do not necessarily deal with direct distributional impacts in the form of financial implications but focus on estimating the distribution of the environmental burden associated with specific policies. There has been a lengthy discourse in the literature regarding if and how environmental burdens relate to socio-economic status, thus affecting inequalities, especially in the case of air pollution and its impacts on human health.[8,68–70] Results regarding the direction and significance of such a relationship are, however, mixed. Hence, distributional impacts of energy and climate policies reducing the environmental burden may depend on the geographic scope, chosen socio- economic characteristics and considered environmental risks.[5,8,69–71] This ambivalence is also reflected in the variety of applicable models. The following provides examples of available modeling frameworks and discusses their advantages and limitations. Methodologies to assess environmental impacts of policies and their distributional implications Since air pollution directly relates to the energy sector and constitutes the biggest environmental hazard for human health,[9] most impact assessments of energy policies tend to focus on air pollution as their main environmental indicator. Most modeling frameworks in this field follow the Impact Pathway Approach, which links the release of emissions through exposure assessment to pre-defined impact categories.[20] Since air pollution varies locally with meteorological and geographical conditions, spatial analysis and disaggregation offers itself to study distributional impacts. It is also possible to study distributional impacts between representative population groups. By introducing Agent- Based-Modelling, behavioural reactions to climate and energy policies may also be considered (e.g., a shift in transportation modes). These three concepts - spatial disaggregation, representative population groups and Agent-Based-Models - are shortly introduced and discussed in the following. Spatial disaggregation Since environmental impact assessment models are primarily designed to simulate and estimate changes in the spatial distribution of the environmental burden, distributional impacts on a spatial scale are often considered implicitly. The IPCC impact assessment [60] for example, discusses in detail how different countries may be affected by climate change...
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