Economic Valuation of Private Sector Waste Management Services
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Economic Valuation of Private Sector Waste Management Services
This paper reports a study regarding households’ willingness to pay for private sector solid waste management services. The data originated from a contingent valuation survey conducted in 224 households in Ilorin in southwest Nigeria and was analysed using tobit and censored least absolute deviations models. The use of a robust and consistent estimator to model zero willingness to pay responses...
متن کاملDomestic waste disposal practice and perceptions of private sector waste management in urban Accra
BACKGROUND Waste poses a threat to public health and the environment if it is not stored, collected, and disposed of properly. The perception of waste as an unwanted material with no intrinsic value has dominated attitudes towards disposal. This study investigates the domestic waste practices, waste disposal, and perceptions about waste and health in an urban community. METHODS The study util...
متن کاملThe economic rationale of public and private sector roles in the provision of animal health services.
In the changing market environment of livestock products, the delivery of animal health services is emerging as an important priority area for enhancing the competitiveness of poor livestock producers. At the same time, governments are continuing to face serious budgetary difficulties and are finding it difficult to expand the reach of these services or improve service quality. In this context ...
متن کاملWaste Management Development and Current State of Waste Sector
In accordance with Law on Environment, Solid Waste Management Regulation, Metropolitan Municipalities Law and Municipal Law; Metropolitan municipalities and municipalities out of adjacent zones and the highest civilian authority out of these zones are responsible for ensuring the disposal of domestic and domestic-type industrial solid waste while avoiding environmental damage, ensuring the maxi...
متن کاملThe Japanese private finance initiative and its application in the municipal solid waste management sector
In Japan, the development and financing of infrastructure are traditionally dominated by the public sector. Learning from the failures of so called ‘‘third sector’’ projects in the 1970s and 1980s as well as based on experience from the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in other countries, Japan introduced a PFI Promotion Law in 1999 to enhance private participation in the provision of infrastru...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Sustainable Development
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1913-9071,1913-9063
DOI: 10.5539/jsd.v4n4p38