Willingness-to-pay for solid waste management service attributes: Kolkata Municipal Corporation area, India, as a case study. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hazra, Tumpa; Goel, Sudha; Maitra, Bhargab
• Is Part Of: International journal of environment and waste management. Volume 12:Number 4(2013)
• Page Start: 406
• Page End: 421
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: solid waste management -- SWM -- stated choice -- multinomial logit model -- willingness-to-pay -- WTP; Refuse and refuse disposal -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Refuse collection -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Periodicals; 363.72805
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1478-9876

Abstract

This paper examines public perceptions towards qualitative and quantitative attributes of a solid waste management (SWM) system in terms of willingness-to-pay (WTP) values. A stated choice (SC) survey instrument was designed and data was collected from residents in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) of West Bengal, India. Respondents were approached randomly and face-to-face interviews were carried out. The behavioural data collected from residents are analysed by developing a standard multinomial logit (MNL) model and model coefficients are used for calculating the WTP values. Using the WTP values, the total disutility of SWM system is expressed in the form of generalised cost (GC).