Evaluation Clean Air Effects on Tehran City Residential Houses Price in 2009

• Main Author: Aghapour Sabbagi M.
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011-06-01
• Series: سلامت و محیط
• Subjects: Air Pollution; Hedonic Approach; Environmental Activity
• Online Access: http://journals.tums.ac.ir/upload_files/pdf/19334.pdf
• ISSN: 2008-2029; 2008-3718

BackgroundsandObjectives: Environmental activitiesunknownprice and value caused establishing of some unique characteristics for mentioned commodities. One of these characteristics was existing gap between private and social cost and benefit. For assessing these activities different approaches include travel cost, willingness to pay and hedonic price had been suggested. According to Tehran's air pollution problem, in this study Hedonic approach had was used for the assessment of healthy air on Tehran's residential house price.Materials and Method : Hedonic approach is one of the methods that are used for evolution environmental goods. In this method, each good's price is estimated as a functions of that good`s properties. To gather this study information 300 questionnaires has been collected by random sampling from different area of Tehran.Result: Results revealed that activities in order to reduce air pollutions, in addition to environmental value have economical value form the point of view of consumers. Also, results show that willingness to pay of every Tehran's citizens for every square meter of house located in region with less pollution is between 1120 to 1350 thousands Rials.Conclusion: According to the obtained results can be said that, clean air as an environmental good from the viewpoint of consumers has economic value that can be calculated this value using methods such as Hedonic.