An estimation of self-organization effects in regional environmental monitoring systems

Abstract

The concept of self-organization can be meaningfully appled to regional economies and administrations, which stems from the regions treatment as open socioenvironmental systems of a complex ontology. Specifically, to test for presence of self-organization effects we focus on regional pollution monitoring for air and ground. The proposed simple framework contrasts two modeling approaches to the impact of pollutants' health safety class upon their coverage in regional environmental monitoring programs, namely the treatment of the impact as exogeneous or endogeneous. While confirming the superior validity of either approach may have practical implications, significance of effects in both specifications would testify for occurrence of regional self-organized processes in response to changes in macroeconomic policy environment.