Household Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Waste Management Services in Rural Nigeria
Abstract
Safe and clean environment is an essential requirement for maintaining life on earth and creating human friendly environment is one of the most important issues in the world today. The concern of this paper is to examine household preference and willingness to pay for waste management services. The population of the study is made up of the households in the Nsukka urban where simple random sampling techniques was employed to select 25 households from each of the six town in Nsukka urban, employing binary modelling using probit model to estimate the impact of both cultural and demographic factors and economic factors on household willingness to pay for waste management service. The result revealed that demographic factors such as age, household size and education have great influence on household willingness to demand for waste management in Nsukka urban area. Also, economic factors such, income level of the households, awareness of the household about the environment, impact of waste management service and cost of waste management service has positive significant impact on household willingness to pay for waste management services.
References
Boniface, O W (2016). Municipal solid waste characterization in Nsukka urban in South East Nigeria, Transylvanian Special Issue Review, XXIV, (7)
Adinnu, I. F (1994). Landfill and urban residential rental values: A case Study of Achapo landfill facility in OjoLGA, Lagos State, Unpublished MURP Dissertation. Centre for Urban and Regional Planning, University of Ibadan.
Agbola, T. (2001). Turning Municipal waste into compost: The case of Ibadan. In: Drechsel, P. and D. Kunze (eds), Waste composting for urban and Peri- urban agriculture closing the rural-urban. nutrient cycle in Sub-Saharan Africa, International Waste Management Institute, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation, CABI publishing, OXon, UK,. 69-81.
Alabi, M (2004). Waste products survey for identification and quantification of different wastes generated in Nigeria. An Unpublished PhD Thesis in the Dept of Geography, University of Ibadan
Centre for African Settlement Studies and Development (CASSAD) (1998). Workshop on turning waste to wealth-strategies, options, appropriate and affordable technology for waste management, Training Module Prepared Course Codes CASTWW/98 April
Cointreaus-Levine, S. (1994). Private sector participation in Municipal solid waste services in developing countries, 1, The Formal Sector. Published for Urban. Management Programme by the World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Harris, P J., C, M. Allison, G. Smith, H. M. Kindness & Kelley, J. (2001). The potential use of waste-stream products for soil amelioration in Peri-urban interface Agricultural production systems’. In: Drechsel, P & D. Kunze (eds), op.cit., 1-28
Salifu, L (2001). An integrated waste management strategy for Kumasi, In: Drechsel, P & D Kunze (eds), op.cit., 112-114
Sule, R A O (1981). The deterioration of the Nigerian environment solid waste disposal in Metropolitan Lagos, Geojournal, 3, 57-77
Yusuf, S., A, Ojo, OT & KK (2007). Households’ willingness to pay for improved household solid waste management in Ibadan–North LGA of Oyo State, Nigeria Journal of Environmental Extension, 6, 57-63
Arrow, J.K., R. Solow, P.R. Portney, E.E. Leamer, R. Radner & Schumand, H. (1993). Report of the NOAA panel on contingent valuation, Federal Register, 58 (10), 4601-4614
Bartone, C.L & Bernstein. J. D 1993. Improving Municipal solid waste management in Third World Countries, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 8, 43–45
Cameron, T.A & James. D. M (1987). Efficient estimation methods for use with closed-ended contingent valuation surveys data, Review of Economics and Statistics, 69. 269-276
Carson, R.T. 2002. Contingent valuation: A comprehensive bibliography and history. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Edgar
Carson R.T., N. Flores & Meade, N. 2001. Contingent valuation: Controversies and evidence, Environmental & Resource Economics, 19 (2), 173-210
Carson, R.T., W.M. Hanemann, R.J. Kopp, J.A. Krosnick, R.C. Mitchell, S. Presser, P.A. Ruud, V. Keny Smith, M. Conaway & Martin, K. (1998). Referendum design and contingent valuation: The NOAA panel’s no-vote recommendation, Review of Economics & Statistics, 80 (2), 335-338
Chakrabarti, S & Sarkhel, P. (2003). Economics of solid waste management: A survey of existing literature, Kolkata, India: Indian Statistical Institute, Economic Research Unit
Chuen-Khee, P & Othman, J (2010). Household demand for solid waste disposal options in Malaysia, World Academy of Science, Engineering & Technology, 66, 1153–1158
Fantu, S. (2007). Household heads’ willingness to pay for improved solid waste management: The case of common building residences in Addis Ababa, MA thesis, Department of Economics, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Copyright (c) 2018 Richardson Kojo Edeme, Nelson C. Nkalu
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
American Economic & Social Society is licensed under a 