The effect of risk characteristics on the willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions from electric power generation

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 371-398

  Itaoka, Kenshi ^a   Saito, Aya ^a   Krupnick, Alan ^b   Adamowicz, Wiktor ^c   Taniguchi, Taketoshi ^d  

^a MIZUHO INFORMATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Coal fired generation; Mortality; Nuclear power; Risk characteristics; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FOSSIL FUELS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PROBABILITY;

CHOICE EXPERIMENT; COAL-FIRED GENERATION; MORTALITY; RISK CHARACTERISTICS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ELECTRICAL POWER; FOSSIL FUEL; MORTALITY RISK; NUCLEAR POWER; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 33645286206     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-005-3605-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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