Municipal solid waste management, source-separated waste and stakeholder’s attitude: a Contingent Valuation Study

Recognition of the social costs associated with traditional practices of urban waste management in India led to the formulation of Municipal Waste Management and Handling rules (2000). However, compliance with the proposed collection and disposal involves higher commitment in terms of both time and money on the part of the residents, local bodies as well as the state and central government. In this context, information about the value of the environmental improvements conferred upon the city dwellers would be important from the planner’s perspective. Given the non-market characteristic of waste disposal services, we infer about beneficiaries’ perceived demand for the proposed service by means of Double-Bounded Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Survey conducted in the Bally Municipality in the district of Howrah, West Bengal. We estimate the average WTP by controlling for anchoring bias and use the annualized value of cost to examine the feasibility of the proposed system.

[1]  J. R. DeShazo,et al.  Household Demand for Improved Solid Waste Management: A Case Study of Gujranwala, Pakistan , 1996 .

[2]  W. Baumol,et al.  The theory of environmental policy: On the theory of externalities , 1988 .

[3]  K. McConnell,et al.  Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources , 2002 .

[4]  Sundar Burra,et al.  Community-designed, built and managed toilet blocks in Indian cities , 2003 .

[5]  Richard T. Carson,et al.  Incentive and informational properties of preference questions , 2007 .

[6]  Richard M. Adams,et al.  An Economic Analysis of Household Recycling of Solid Wastes: The Case of Portland, Oregon , 1993 .

[7]  R. Buckley,et al.  STRATEGIZING SLUM IMPROVEMENT IN INDIA: A METHOD TO MONITOR AND REFOCUS SLUM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS , 2007 .

[8]  Wallace E. Oates,et al.  The theory of environmental policy , 1976 .

[9]  John Quiggin,et al.  Estimation Using Contingent Valuation Data from a Dichotomous Choice with Follow-Up Questionnaire , 1994 .

[10]  William J. Baumol,et al.  The theory of environmental policy: Contents , 1988 .

[11]  S. Singhal,et al.  Solid waste management in India: status and future directions , 2001 .

[12]  P. B. Anand.  Waste management in Madras revisited , 1999 .

[13]  David Hanrahan,et al.  Improving Management of Municipal Solid Waste in India: Overview and Challenges , 2006 .

[14]  J. Whitehead.  Incentive Incompatibility and Starting-Point Bias in Iterative Valuation Questions , 2002, Land Economics.

[15]  Sebastian Anapolsky,et al.  Improving Municipal Solid Waste Management in India: A Sourcebook for Policymakers and Practitioners , 2007 .

[16]  William M. Fonta,et al.  Using a Contingent Valuation Approach for Improved Solid Waste Management Facility: Evidence from Enugu State, Nigeria , 2007 .

[17]  S. N. Gupta,et al.  Solid waste management in India: options and opportunities , 1998 .

[18]  R. C. Vaishya,et al.  Municipal solid waste characteristics and management in Allahabad, India. , 2007, Waste management.

[19]  Zhishi Wang,et al.  Comparison of contingent valuation and choice experiment in solid waste management programs in Macao , 2006 .

[20]  Glenn C. Blomquist,et al.  The Use of Contingent Valuation in Benefit–Cost Analysis , 2006 .

[21]  Timothy C. Haab,et al.  Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources: The Econometrics of Non-Market Valuation , 2002 .

[22]  Barbara Kanninen,et al.  Optimal Experimental Design for Double-Bounded Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation , 1993 .

[23]  Anna Alberini,et al.  Optimal Designs for Discrete Choice Contingent Valuation Surveys: Single-Bound, Double-Bound, and Bivariate Models , 1995 .

[24]  Jason F. Shogren,et al.  Starting Point Bias in Dichotomous Choice Valuation with Follow-Up Questioning , 1996 .

[25]  Gauhar Mahmood,et al.  Municipal solid waste management in Indian cities - A review. , 2008, Waste management.

[26]  S. Hellweg,et al.  Municipal solid waste management , 2003 .

[27]  Sunil Kumar,et al.  Assessment of the status of municipal solid waste management in metro cities, state capitals, class I cities, and class II towns in India: an insight. , 2009, Waste management.

[28]  Dale Whittington,et al.  Household Demand for Improved Sanitation Services: A Case Study of Calamba, the Philippines , 2001 .

[29]  Arthur J. Caplan,et al.  Waste Not or Want Not? A Contingent Ranking Analysis of Curbside Waste Disposal Options , 2002 .