EnvironmentalPolicy
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How Economics and Ecology Interact: Interview with Eyal Frank
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In collaboration with UC3P Audio file: Frank Interview.mp3 Now on Spotify Transcript: Chicago Policy Review Eyal Frank is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. Eyal is also affiliated with the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago (EPIC). As an environmental economist, he works at…
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The City Is Not Designed for Women
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As stated by author and feminist-issues researcher Caroline Criado-Perez, the world is designed mostly by men with mostly other men in mind. The gender-based gap in data has been known to exist for a long time, and male-biased data has affected the living experiences of women in oft-realized but nether-talked…
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Housing Discrimination Informs Racial Gaps in Pollution
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A large body of evidence shows that Black and Hispanic Americans are disproportionally exposed to harmful pollutants. People of color are more likely to live near hazardous waste landfills, more likely to reside near contaminated waterways, and more likely to breathe air containing pollutants such as ozone. Scholars have named this phenomenon the…