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Measuring the economic benefits from the contaminated soil remediation policy in Korea: a contingent valuation study
Lim, Seul-Ye1, Yoo, Seung-Hoon2.
Soil contamination caused by economic growth through industrialization and urbanization
has been progressed in Korea. Soil polluted with heavy metals and chemicals makes
significantly negative effects on human and wildlife health. This paper attempts to measure
the economic benefits from the contaminated soil remediation policy using a specific case
study of Korea. To this end, the contingent valuation (CV) method is employed. A CV
national survey of randomly selected 500 households was implemented using person-toperson
interviewing in May 2105. To elicit the willingness to pay (WTP), we apply one-andone-half
bound dichotomous choice question format to reduce the potential for response
bias and spike model to deal with zero willingness to pay (WTP). The mean WTP for the
policy is estimated to be KRW 1,357 (USD 1.2) for next ten years per household per year and
statistically significant at the 1% level. Expanding the value to the national population gives
us KRW 25.4 billion (USD 22.9 million) per year. We can judge that the Korean public places
a significant value and be utilized in assessing the total benefits from the policy.
Affiliation:
- Seoul National University of Science & Technology, Korea, South
- Seoul National University of Science & Technology, Korea, South
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