The Benefit Transfer of Air Pollution Control Measures and The Environmental Accounting

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  • 大気汚染対策の便益移転と環境会計
  • タイキ オセン タイサク ノ ベンエキ イテン ト カンキョウ カイケイ

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Using a choice experiment which is one of the stated preference methods, we examine the residents' preference towards the policy for reducing NOx-PM and evaluated its social effects. As object of choices, we choose situations buying condominiums. This allows respondents to easily understand the hypothetical situation posed in the questionnaire. We collect data from samples of citizens around Kobe and Yokohama city, and analyze it with the conditional multinomial logit model. The result of the simple model which shows that the marginal willingness to pay for a level of improvement in NOx-PM pollution is from 1, 910, 000 yen to 2, 150, 000 yen (from 66, 000 yen to 74, 000 yen by annualized value). A benefit function transfer adjusted by individual characteristicsshows that the percent error is smaller than the result with simple model. The result is applied to an environmental accounting of a carrier company. Comparing the effect of NOx reduction by the company in 2002, the benefit is 619, 780, 000 yen around Tokyo, which overwhelmed the cost.

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