Determinants of households' willingness-to-pay for private solid waste management services in Ibadan, Nigeria
| Autor: | Elizabeth O. Oloruntoba, M.A.Y. Rahji |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Engineering
Contingent valuation medicine.medical_specialty Family Characteristics Environmental Engineering Municipal solid waste Waste management business.industry Public health Data Collection Nigeria Guidelines as Topic Pollution Refuse Disposal Willingness to pay Waste Management Multistage sampling Economic interventionism medicine Humans Asset (economics) business Socioeconomics Waste disposal |
| Zdroj: | Waste managementresearch : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA. 27(10) |
| ISSN: | 1096-3669 |
| Popis: | The study examined the determinants of willingness-to-pay for private solid waste disposal systems by urban households in Ibadan, Nigeria. A multistage random sampling technique was used to select 552 households for the study. Data obtained from survey were analysed using a logit model-based contingent valuation. Evidence from the logit model indicated that seven variables had significant influence on the households’ willingness-to-pay. Of these, income and asset owned were positive and significant at P < 0.01 but amount of willingness-to-pay and firm services were negative and significant at P < 0.01. Education and occupation were positive and significant at the P < 0.05 level while age was negative and significant at P < 0.10. The implication is that households have certain socio-economic characteristics, which influence their willingness-to-pay for solid waste disposal. The study recommends government intervention in a variety of forms such as encouraging public—private participation in solid waste disposal, an aggressive environmental clean-up campaign, decentralization of Waste Management Boards and privatization of some aspects of waste management to ameliorate solid waste problems and improve health. |
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