scholarly journals Valuing Warm Homes - Exploring New Zealanders' Home Heating Choices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hayley Vujcich
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Contingent Valuation Study ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Home Heating ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
New Zealanders

<p>New Zealand homes have a record of being poorly heated and inadequately energy efficient. While policy makers increasingly recognise the many benefits associated with energy efficient warm homes, there is currently a lack of understanding of how New Zealanders make choices about space heating. This thesis takes a mixed method approach in order to 1) understand how New Zealanders value energy efficient heating and 2) further explore how people make decisions about home heating. Capturing the economic value of the range of benefits associated with home heating is investigated through analysing a contingent valuation study undertaken by the Housing, Heating and Health Study (University of Otago). Participants show 'willingness to pay' and related values below heater market prices. It is argued that there is some indication of split incentives issues and income constraint, and increased familiarisation with space heaters may increase willingness to pay. Evidence from focus group research suggests that while attitudes and norms are conducive to efficiently heated homes, other market and non-market factors impede pro-environmental choices. The widely recognised Kiwi stoicism of living in cold homes is not evidenced; choosing to go cold in the home may instead be rationalised as mitigating the environmental impacts associated with heating. This analysis sheds light on how intervention and how provision of information to fill the 'energy efficiency gap' could move outside the 'rational person' model of how New Zealanders make home heating choices.</p>

scholarly journals Valuing Warm Homes - Exploring New Zealanders' Home Heating Choices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hayley Vujcich
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Contingent Valuation Study ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Home Heating ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
New Zealanders

<p>New Zealand homes have a record of being poorly heated and inadequately energy efficient. While policy makers increasingly recognise the many benefits associated with energy efficient warm homes, there is currently a lack of understanding of how New Zealanders make choices about space heating. This thesis takes a mixed method approach in order to 1) understand how New Zealanders value energy efficient heating and 2) further explore how people make decisions about home heating. Capturing the economic value of the range of benefits associated with home heating is investigated through analysing a contingent valuation study undertaken by the Housing, Heating and Health Study (University of Otago). Participants show 'willingness to pay' and related values below heater market prices. It is argued that there is some indication of split incentives issues and income constraint, and increased familiarisation with space heaters may increase willingness to pay. Evidence from focus group research suggests that while attitudes and norms are conducive to efficiently heated homes, other market and non-market factors impede pro-environmental choices. The widely recognised Kiwi stoicism of living in cold homes is not evidenced; choosing to go cold in the home may instead be rationalised as mitigating the environmental impacts associated with heating. This analysis sheds light on how intervention and how provision of information to fill the 'energy efficiency gap' could move outside the 'rational person' model of how New Zealanders make home heating choices.</p>

scholarly journals Willingness to Pay for Energy Efficient Appliances: The Case of Lebanese Consumers

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5572
Author(s):  
Hassan Harajli ◽  
Ali Chalak
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Contingent Valuation Study ◽  
Air Conditioners ◽  
Home Appliances ◽  
Valuation Study ◽  
Energy Labelling ◽  
Multivariate Tobit Model ◽  
The Cost

A contingent valuation study was conducted to elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) of Lebanese citizens for five types of energy-efficient home appliances: washing machines, air conditioners, televisions, light bulbs, and refrigerators. A face-to-face survey is designed to this end, with data collection achieving a sample of 605 households geographically representative of the Lebanese population. A multivariate Tobit model was used to gauge the effects of socio-demographic characteristics, attitudes, perceptions, behavior, and experience on the WTP across all these appliances, while accounting for potential correlations between these WTP values. Findings provide evidence of the importance of several socio–demographics in determining WTP for more energy efficient appliances, such as income, education, and age, and the importance of perceptions and experience covariates, not least the implementation of energy labelling and the cost of electricity. In terms of policy implications, this study highlights the need to legally enforce a shift in payment mode from renting per capacity (kW) to purchasing per power (kWh) consumed for electricity in the back-up power sector, and the immediate introduction of a local labelling scheme for home appliances.

scholarly journals Willingness to Pay for Improved Operations and Maintenance Services of Gravity-Fed Water Schemes in Idjwi Island (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1050
Author(s):  
Ruben Jimenez-Redal ◽  
Germán Arana-Landín ◽  
Beñat Landeta ◽  
Jaime Larumbe
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Conditioning Factors ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Operations And Maintenance ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Log Linear ◽  
Rural Water Systems

Developing understanding of the economic value that communities ascribe to improved operations and maintenance (O&M) services has emerged as a key factor in achieving financial sustainability for rural water systems. The present study elicits household willingness to pay (WTP) for improved O&M services in eight gravity-fed water schemes in Idjwi Island (Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC). A contingent valuation survey was implemented through an open-ended format questionnaire to 1105 heads of household and a log-linear regression model was employed to assess the factors influencing higher values. Findings show an average willingness to pay of 327 Congolese Francs (CDF) per month and 36 CDF per bucket. Results also indicate a significant WTP differential among studied schemes. The analysis of the conditioning factors reveals that the level of excludability, the participation in management meetings and the time employed in fetching water from an improved source are contingent with their WTP. The findings of this study are important for development agents trying to establish acceptable, affordable and practicable tariffs that help finance reliable rural water systems in Idjwi.

scholarly journals Willingness to Pay for Maintenance of a Nature Conservation Area: A Case of Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Ezebilo
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Income Group ◽  
High Income Group ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Logit Regression Model

<p>Ecosystem services that are not traded on markets contribute to human wellbeing however their economic value is not well known and research is required to reveal it. This paper reports on a study of willingness to pay (WTP) for the maintenance of Mount Wilhelm by urban residents and socio-economic factors influencing it. The possibility of developing an ecotourism strategy that could generate benefits for local are discussed. The data were obtained from questionnaire and personal interviews of residents of Kundiawa, which is the capital of Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics and binary logit regression model. The results showed that 92% of the respondents were willing to pay for maintenance of Mount Wilhelm and they would pay an average of 7.4 Papua New Guinea Kina (US$ 2.5) each year. The respondents who belonged to high income group had the highest WTP, followed by those who were willing to give out part of their land for conservation. Approximately 62% of the respondents would pay ≥10 Papua New Guinea Kina (PGK), which is equivalent to the amount charged as access fee to Mount Wilhelm by the locals living around it. The willingness to pay ≥10 PGK was influenced by income, education, importance of forests and willingness to give up land for conservation. The findings will contribute to land use planning and design of nature-based recreation that meets societal demands.</p>

Willingness to pay for more sustainable e-waste management: a contingent valuation study in greece

2012 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Charisios Achillas ◽  
Christos Vlachokostas ◽  
Avraam Karagiannidis ◽  
Eftichios Sophocles Sartzetakis ◽  
Nicolas Moussiopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Contingent Valuation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Contingent Valuation Study ◽  
Adequate Funding ◽  
Weee Recycling ◽  
Valuation Study ◽  
Environmentally Sound

Management of Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE also called e-waste) has become an issue of critical importance recently also in the frame of industrial ecology besides waste management per se, mostly due to their content in hazardous materials and the extensive implications of any intervention in a broad industrial spectrum. The effectiveness of any landfill diversion scheme depends on its acceptance by the local community and the industry, as well as adequate funding. This paper presents a contingent valuation approach in order to examine public environmental awareness and to assess the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the environmentally sound management of WEEE in Greece, based on a suitable, customized and easy-to-comprehend questionnaire. The survey revealed a still relative public ignorance on the subject and a reluctantly limited WTP. The latter is mostly triggered by the fact that respondents believed that associated expenses should be covered either by authorities or manufacturers (protest votes). However, based on the responses of those declaring a positive WTP, the average fee respondents are willing to pay exceeds the current recycling fee. Thus, existing recycling fees could be potentially increased in order to cover additional expenses for the development of infrastructure in areas not currently included in the national WEEE recycling program, as well as to provide the public with a dense network of disposal sites/bins in an effort to boost participation and WEEE recycling rates.

scholarly journals The Economic Values of Utilizing Water Services Way Betung Watershed

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Hendra Pratama ◽  
Slamet Budi Yuwono ◽  
Hari Kaskoyo ◽  
Samsul Bakri
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Water Availability ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
Total Economic Value ◽  
Value Of Water ◽  
Forest Rehabilitation ◽  
Economic Value Of Water

Way Betung watershed is a source of raw water supply utilized by the Talang Mulya community for various purposes, such as for household needs, irrigation of paddy farming and micro hydro power plant. Water availability is closely related to the existing forest presence in the area, the forest land management should be in balance on be half of maintaing water availability. This study aimed to determine the perception of the community and to analyze the economic value of water for household needs, irrigation of paddy farming and micro hydro power plant. This research also calculated the Willingness to Pay of forest and land rehabilitation costs by community. Primary data collection were conducted by interviewing 106 respondents. The results showed that the community appraisal of water resources in Way Betung watershed were good since 88% of respondents are willing to pay for forest rehabilitation. The total economic value of water utilization in Talang Mulya Village was Rp.2.963.540.390/year and the value of willingness to pay for forest rehabilitation costs was Rp.5.833.608/year with average willingness to pay was Rp.22.948/year. Keywords: watershed , total economic value, the economic value of water, willingness to pay.

Do Americans want ethanol? A comparative contingent-valuation study of willingness to pay for E-10 and E-85

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Petrolia ◽  
Sanjoy Bhattacharjee ◽  
Darren Hudson ◽  
Cary W. Herndon
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Contingent Valuation ◽  
Contingent Valuation Study ◽  
Valuation Study

I Play, I Pay?

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Han
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Perceived Playfulness ◽  
New Business ◽  
Marketing Activities

The user’s willingness to pay has become one of the most important success factors of hedonic social network site new business models and social media marketing activities. In the current study, the author investigates the influential factors of the user’s willingness to pay from the hedonic system use theories and the social capital based view. The author finds that the user’s perceived playfulness, which is considered a critical factor by practitioners, has no significant positive effect on the user’s willingness to pay. Along with other findings, the author has a further discussion on the fun-based business model development. This study provides a theoretical foundation for the future HSNS economic value research and offers several implications to practitioners.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document