XML FeedsThe Value of Reducing Cancer Risks at Contaminated Sites: Are More Heavily Exposed People Willing to Pay More?
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Link: http://www.feem.it/Feem/Pub/Publications/WPapers/WP2009-060.htm
Summary: Anna Alberini, Stefania Tonin, Margherita Turvani use conjoint choice questions to investigate people's tastes for cancer risk reductions and income in the context of public programs that would provide for remediation at abandoned industrial contaminated sites. Their survey was self-administered using the computer by persons living in the vicinity of an important contaminated site on the Italian National Priority List. The value of a prevented case of cancer is €2.6 million, but this figure does vary with income, perceived exposure to contaminants, and opinions about priorities that should be pursued by cleanup programs.
by Anna Alberini 1 and 2, Stefania Tonin 2 Margherita Turvani 2
1. University of Maryland, AREC, 2200 Symons Hall, College Park, USA
Phone: +1301 405 1267, Fax: +1301 314 9091; aalberini@arec.umd.edu,
2. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
3. University IUAV
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Working Paper 60.2009; Last revision July 15, 2009
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