期刊名称：Research Hub-International Multidisciplinary Research Journal (RHIMRJ)
电子版ISSN：2349-7637
出版年度：2015
卷号：2
期号：8
页码：7
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出版社：Prakashraj P. Kumavat
摘要：The nature and sources of pollution in study area and indicated the possible consequences of an increase in the levels of pollution to human health and urban property values. Constant exposure to polluted environment due to pollution, most often, leads to morbidityand sometimes mortality. As a matter of fact, a million of the industrial workforce who participate directly in various production processes and post- production activities in these factories and the general public settled in and around the agglomeration is the direct victims of this social evil. Since the deterioration of air quality ruins their health and welfare, they try to avert the negative influences of pollution. This aversive behavior of individual households is to be seen as part of their attempts to regain the welfare losses due to pollution. It is therefore significant and necessary that we value the welfare losses / benefits due to pollution. The main focus of this chapter, hence,is to estimate values of health effects due to pollution in the study area industrial agglomeration. We adopt the Revealed Preference Approach and Contingent Valuation Methods to estimate monetary values of changes in human health associated with the reduction in environmental quality. This chapter is divided into 5 sections. In section 1 we present the health production function model which is used for estimating the household's willingness to pay for reduced morbidity. In section 2, we present a detailed description of how the environmental variables are related to different socio economic characteristics of sample households in the study area. Section 3 deals with the estimation of willingness to pay using Health production Function. In section 4, we estimate the willingness to pay using the Contingent Valuation Method. An attempt is made in section 5 to compare this willingness to pay estimates. The last section gives a summary of this chapter.
