This paper reports a survey study of willingness to pay for air quality improvement at Panipat Thermal Power Station (PTPS) colony, Panipat, India based on referendum contingent valuation (CV) approach. The results show that people in PTPS colony were willing to pay about two percent of their...

For more than forty years, scientists have expressed concern about growing carbon concentrations in the atmosphere and resulting global climate change. Public concern has lagged behind the scientific evidence, and political leaders have been even slower to recognize the magnitude of the climate...