Measuring the Willingness to Pay for Improved
Air Quality: A Contingent Valuation Survey

Ligus, Magdalena

doi:10.15244/pjoes/76406

Cited by 19 publications

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“…First, studies that assessed people's additional WTP for electricity generated from NG-based CHP plant over coal-fired plant to mitigate air pollutants emissions remain scarce. Most of the related research has tackled public value for reducing the air pollutions or improving the air quality [17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

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Willingness to Pay for Substituting Coal with Natural Gas-Based Combined Heat and Power in South Korea: A View from Air Pollutants Emissions Mitigation

2018

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As of 2017, coal-fired generation is responsible for about half of electricity generation in South Korea. This causes a serious problem of emitting air pollutants such as particulate matters, sulfur oxides, and nitrogen oxides. Thus, the South Korean government is seeking to substitute a part of coal-fired generation with natural gas (NG)-based combined heat and power (CHP) generation for the purpose of mitigating air pollutants emissions. This article tries to assess the public willingness to pay (WTP) for the substitution adopting contingent valuation (CV). The data on the additional WTP for consuming 1 kWh of electricity produced from NG-based CHP generation over coal-fired generation were gathered from a CV survey of 1000 interviewees. The mean additional WTP estimate for the substitution is obtained as KRW 28.08 (USD 0.025) per kWh of electricity use. This is equivalent to 25.9% of the average price of electricity, KRW 108.50 (USD 0.098) per kWh in 2017. It is obvious that the South Korean public has a significant WTP for substituting coal with NG in electricity generation to mitigate air pollutants emissions. The government needs to gradually push for the substitution.

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Willingness to Pay for Substituting Coal with Natural Gas-Based Combined Heat and Power in South Korea: A View from Air Pollutants Emissions Mitigation

2018

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“…Zhang et al [ 17 ] calculated that people on the average were willing to pay ¥258 per year per person for a 1% reduction in PM 2.5 . Ligus [ 18 ] attempted to estimate how much Polish citizens would be willing to pay for clean air by applying the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM). Carriazo et al [ 19 ] applied a Second Stage Hedonic Pricing Model by defining intra-urban housing sub-markets.…”

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Impacts of Haze on Housing Prices: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data from Chengdu (China)

Liu

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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Based on cross-section data of 20 districts in Chengdu, this article reviews the relationships between haze and housing prices with the combined application of Spatial Error Model (SEM) and Spatial Lag Model (SLM). The results illustrate that haze significantly have negative impacts on both the selling and rental prices of houses. Controlling other variables, if the air quality index rises by 0.1, the housing selling prices and rental prices will drop by 3.97% and 4.01%, respectively. Interestingly, housing rental prices have a more significant response to the air quality than housing sale prices. Residents are willing to pay a premium for better air quality and the influence of air quality is partially reflected in housing prices, which indicates that better air quality has been becoming a scarce resource with the improvement of people’s living standard. Furthermore, the impacts of haze on housing prices are also expected to lead to a “crowding out effect” in different regions. This would be detrimental for human capital accumulation and will accelerate the regional divergence in the internal economy and population structure, thus forming a region “fence” within cities.

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“…WTP value collection techniques are carried out using the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM). CVM can be done by asking respondents directly how much they would pay to get better conditions (LIGUS, 2018). After getting the WTP value from each respondent, it is used to estimate the average WTP using the equation (RAKTHAI, 2018):…”

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An assessment of the coastal ecosystem services of Jayapura City, Papua Province, Indonesia

Rumahorbo

Hamuna

Keiluhu

2020

Environmental &Amp; Socio-Economic Studies

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AbstractThis study aims to assess and quantify the economic value of coastal ecosystem services (CES) in the coastal areas of Jayapura City based on the perceptions of Papuan indigenous peoples. Data collection was conducted from March to April 2018 using the direct interview method based on questionnaires to 228 respondents in Enggros, Tobati, and Nafri villages. The CES value in Jayapura City is estimated to be around USD 5,427,212.34/year, which consists of service values of mangrove, coral reef, and seagrass ecosystems that are USD 4,447,802.85/year or USD 19,079.46/ha/year, USD 424,333.06/year or USD 11,303.49/ha/year, and USD 555,076.43/year or 5,008.36/ha/year, respectively. The value of CES as a provider of fishery products is quite high because of the high desire of the community to exploit and utilize natural resources such as fish, crabs, shrimp, and shellfish in coastal ecosystems to as a food resource. Therefore, with the description of the CES value in this study, good coastal ecosystem management and integrated coastal area development policies are needed to maintain the quality of the environment and the sustainability of coastal ecosystems, as well as efforts to increase public awareness of the importance of coastal ecosystems and the important role that they play in improving the welfare of the Papuan indigenous people.

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Measuring the Willingness to Pay for Improved Air Quality: A Contingent Valuation Survey

Cited by 19 publications

References 44 publications

Willingness to Pay for Substituting Coal with Natural Gas-Based Combined Heat and Power in South Korea: A View from Air Pollutants Emissions Mitigation

Willingness to Pay for Substituting Coal with Natural Gas-Based Combined Heat and Power in South Korea: A View from Air Pollutants Emissions Mitigation

Impacts of Haze on Housing Prices: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data from Chengdu (China)

An assessment of the coastal ecosystem services of Jayapura City, Papua Province, Indonesia

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