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T1 Are rural residents willing to trade-off higher noise for lower air pollution? Evidence from revealed preferences
A1 Fernández Hernández, Carlos
A1 Leon, Carmelo J.
A1 Hernández Alemán, Anastasia
A1 Araña, Jorge E.
K1 Rural and urban areas
K1 Residential location
K1 Air pollution
K1 Latent class model
AB The rise in urbanization has led to an expansion of traditional urban externalities toward suburban and ruralareas together with changes in the preferences of human populations for noise and air pollution. This paperanalyses the preferences of the population living in rural, suburban and urban areas for noise and air pollutionutilizing a revealed preference approach. Data on actual choices of residential location are analysed utilizing aLatent Class Discrete Choice model that raises two different groups of residents with different preferences for airand noise pollution. As expected and confirmed by the Multinomial and Mixed Logit models, the first group of theLatent Class model accepts higher levels of noise and air pollution in urban than in suburban and rural areas.However, the second group of residents have preferences for higher levels of noise and lower levels of airpollution in rural and suburban than in urban areas. Thus, results show some rural residents are willing to tradehigher levels of noise for lower levels of air pollution, indicating adaptation of preferences to a lower level of thetraditional tranquillity enjoyed in less densely populated rural areas.
SN 0921-8009
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/36080
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/36080
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 16-may-2024