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The Contingent Valuation Method for Thessaloniki’s Aesthetic Pollution in Greece
Author(s)
Odysseas Kopsidas
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DOI:10.17265/2162-5263/2017.06.007
Affiliation(s)
Department of Industrial Management and Technology, University of Piraeus, Piraeus 18534, Greece
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to provide an evaluation of the possible
criteria used by the people of Thessaloniki for the evaluation of public goods
and the investigation of the benefits of the conservation and restoration of
city structures affected by carbon monoxide. These benefits are expressed in
monetary units by using the CVM (Contingent Valuation Method). The maintenance
of the urban environment often entails excessive costs paid by the people through
taxation. A city free of aesthetic pollution results in an increase in tourism.
A portion of taxation paid by the citizens is allocated to cleaning the city.
An increase in tourism provides the government with additional revenue through
VAT (Value Added Taxes). The main findings show that in a large proportion, 28%
of the interviewees are willing to pay, but those that are willing to pay
significant amounts tend to prefer mild interventions to the buildings, while
those (42%) that agree with minimal to null amount demand radical intervention.
The latter group, also, considers any contribution of theirs to restoration as
unfair, judging that this expenditure should be covered exclusively by the
State. Last but not least, from a sociopsychological point of view, this
attitude could be attributed to extreme personalities which tend to prefer more
holistic and direct solutions (i.e., no mixed strategy involving people and the
State is acceptable by interviewees who considered themselves as having no further
obligations after regular tax-paying); as a result, they think that the State
is exclusively responsible to resolve the situation.
KEYWORDS
Public goods, WTP (Willingness To Pay), CVM (Contingent Valuation Method), taxation.
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