Estimating the economic damage cost caused by the emission of unpleasant odor of biogas from the landfill of coastal Babolsar township
Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
Department of Agricultural Economic Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Iran.
10.22059/jne.2023.351961.2498
Abstract
Babolsar Township is the host of many tourists around the country annually. The landfill of this township has located in the vicinity of the coast and on the other hand, due to proximity to residential, service, recreational, unsuitable conditions due to the emission of biogas and creating unpleasant odors in the region. due to the importance of the subject, in this research, the economic damage caused by the emission of unpleasant odors from this landfill, using the method of contingent valuation in the form of one and on-half dichotomous choices method and according to the Cochran formula, among 195 selected sample of indigenous and tourists of babolsar have been estimated. The results of logit model estimation on the basis of final effect showed that the proposed price variables, income, ethic-consequences desires and environmental trends have the greatest influence on the people's willingness to pay. The total economic damage costs to the society duo to the spread of the unpleasant odor of biogas of landfill has been estimated to be 42.759 billion Rials.
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