Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
Emerging markets often prioritize land and resources for industries over the welfare of residents, leading to forced relocations. This paper explores the negative impacts of the Kaohsiung Linhai Industrial Park (KLIP) in Taiwan, particularly its pollution effects. It finds that the proximity to pollution sources significantly lowers housing prices, with sulfur dioxide (SO2) being the most detrimental air pollutant due to its association with visible haze from coal-fired power plants and refineries. The study highlights the consequences of overdeveloping industrial areas on local communities and emphasizes the need to assess the economic costs residents bear due to air pollution. To prevent future displacements, the paper advocates for regular evaluations of these costs and offers suggestions for the sustainable development of industrial parks, aiming to better balance industrial growth with community health and well-being.
Results/Contributions

To pursue economic growth, many emerging markets prioritize providing land and resources to industries rather than people, resulting in people being forced to relocate. This paper uses Taiwan's largest industrial city (Kaohsiung) as an example to discuss the negative spillover effect brought about by its most polluted industrial area (the Kaohsiung Linhai Industrial Park, KLIP). This study finds that the proximity between residences and the pollution sources and air pollution severity both cause housing prices to decrease. The results also show that among different air pollution indicators, SO2 concentration exerts the largest influence on housing prices. This may be because the SO2 emitted by large coal-fired power plants and oil refineries in the KLIP is linked to pollution-based haze and creates a visible atmospheric brown haze. By discussing the industrial park's air pollution problem, this paper illustrates the harm of the overdevelopment of an industrial park. To prevent people's relocation events resulting from the overdevelopment of an industrial park occurring in the future, we must regularly estimate the shadow price that residents living near the industrial park are required to pay to escape air pollution. This paper also puts forward suggestions that contribute to the sustainable development of industrial parks.

Keywords
Economic growthIndustrial parkPollutionHousing pricesSustainable development
References
1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101823

Cost of escaping air pollution: A way to prevent excessive expansion of industrial areas

Contact Information
蔡怡純
ictsai@mx.nthu.edu.tw