Valuing Household Willingness to Pay for the Provision of Improved Solid Waste Management Program: The Case of Yeka Sub-City Center of Addis Ababa
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2007-07
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A.A.U
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The issue of 'solid waste' which refers to all material thrown out after consumption or production
Now a day becomes a great concern of all nations. In developing countries like Ethiopia problem
of solid waste is considered to be among the most serious environmental problem. Majority of
sol id wastes in these countries dumped in open air without proper management of the wastes. In
Addis, solid waste problem has received many attentions by government and non government
organization. Hence, many organizations par1icipate in solid waste management particularly in
clean and green Addis Ababa program. Even if many parties participate to clean the city and
protect the environment, still solid waste is a crucial problem in Addis. Many organizations and
majority of households have not had a proper understanding about the impacts of solid wastes on
the environment, economy and community health. In the city and in the case study area, the
problem of so lid wastes emanates from the difficulty to find appropriate places for disposal and
majority of households do not know the negative outcomes of solid wastes.
This study propose improved so lid waste management program to alleviate the problem of solid
waste in case study area (YEKA). In this program sampled households asked to state their
willingness for the proposed program. In study contingent valuation method (CVM) is used to
elicit household willingness to pay which the method has chosen by environmental economists to
value environmental goods. CVM is the most applied valuation method in recent years, and it has
been developed mainly in the context of environmental valuation over the last 30 years. It is
therefore of great interest to study it more carefully. With CVM selected households were
asked to accept for a propose change in so lid waste management program.
Probity and To bit models are used to estimate household willingness to pay and to predict the
coefficients of explanatory variables. Based on the study finding the mean house hold willingness
to pay is birr 9.49 (conditional mean) per month birr 113.88 per year. Household willingness to
pay for the provision of improved sol id waste management influenced by basic socio economic
variables particularly family size, household income, and quantity of solid waste, number of
children, experience, and knowledge of household on solid waste management .Management of
city administration should identify these socio economic variables to minimize the problems.
These variables highly important for policy and instrument to control this wide spread problem of
solid waste.
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Management Program, Valuing Household Willingness