Evaluating impacts from noxious facilities: Including public preferences in current siting mechanisms
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-2018
Abstract
This paper describes an approach to facility siting that ranks potential sites in terms of their social impacts. A contingent choice survey based on paired comparisons is used to construct a utility index to rank sites consistent with predicting Results of a hypothetical referendum based on the attributes of the sites. The method is likely to be acceptable to public decision makers, since it is analogous to site scoring methods that have been commonly used. Indeed, our approach is currently being employed as part of a larger landfill site selection process in the state of Rhode Island.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
The Stated Preference Approach to Environmental Valuation: Volume III: Applications: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Opaluch, James J., Stephen K. Swallow, Thomas Weaver, Christopher W. Wessells, and Dennis Wichelns. "Evaluating impacts from noxious facilities: Including public preferences in current siting mechanisms." The Stated Preference Approach to Environmental Valuation: Volume III: Applications: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Natural Resource Damage Assessment (2018). doi: 10.1006/jeem.1993.1003.