The influence of home-site factors on residents' willingness to pay An application for power generation from scrubland in Galicia, Spain
The main objective of this paper is to measure how much home-site factors can help to explain the individual WTP for an environmental improvement in power generation in Galicia, Spain. The results show that home-site variables such as a dispersed population, local community income, population growth and coastal/inland emplacements have significant effects on the residents' WTP. Individual and home-site models are compared using goodness-of-fit measures, and implications for forestry resources management and energy planning are discussed. The results favor to take into account the home-site variables into the WTP function. Moreover, a different structure of preferences for coastal and inland inhabitants is identified. A cross-validity analysis shows that some home-site coefficients are common to both sub-samples, but the scale parameters are not homogenous. This analysis could be useful to inform and support the public energy policy when designing incentives that promote the electric use of biomass. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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| Format: | artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2009
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| Subjects: | Contingent valuation, Cross validity, Forest biomass, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12792/5493 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/290280 |
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