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Public acceptance towards waste-to-energy power plants: a new quantified assessment based on “willingness to pay”

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  • Chuanwang Sun
  • Xiaoling Ouyang
  • Xiaochun Meng

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This article estimates the impact of residential risk perception on the willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid having waste-to-energy (WTE) power plants in the neighborhood. The filed survey shows that 63.4% of the respondents protested for various reasons. It is noteworthy that house owners indicate a greater willingness for resettlement than house renters. However, residents who take WTE incineration facilities into consideration before settlement are more inclined to oppose the payment for facility relocation. Determinants of protest and supportive responses are evaluated by the sample selection method (SSM). Empirical results show that the average WTP for avoiding WTE facilities being sited in the neighborhood is 2,160 CNY, which is reliable because we include protest responses in the estimation process. Housing price, gender, and living area are decisive factors for the WTP value; in particular, the marginal effect of exaggerated risk perception on WTP amounts to 1,074 CNY.

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  • Chuanwang Sun & Xiaoling Ouyang & Xiaochun Meng, 2019. "Public acceptance towards waste-to-energy power plants: a new quantified assessment based on “willingness to pay”," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(14), pages 2459-2477, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:62:y:2019:i:14:p:2459-2477
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2018.1560930
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    1. Caferra, Rocco & D'Adamo, Idiano & Morone, Piergiuseppe, 2023. "Wasting energy or energizing waste? The public acceptance of waste-to-energy technology," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 263(PE).
    2. Xu, Min & Liu, Yong & Cui, Caiyun & Xia, Bo & Ke, Yongjian & Skitmore, Martin, 2023. "Social acceptance of NIMBY facilities: A comparative study between public acceptance and the social license to operate analytical frameworks," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    3. Jinbu Zhao & Yongyou Nie & Kui Liu & Jizhi Zhou, 2020. "Evolution of the Individual Attitude in the Risk Decision of Waste Incinerator Construction: Cellular Automaton Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-16, January.

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