Pricing landfill externalities: emissions and disamenity costs in Cape Town, South Africa

Nahman, Anton2011-11-152011-11-152011-10Nahman, A. 2011. Pricing landfill externalities: emissions and disamenity costs in Cape Town, South Africa. Waste Management, Vol 31(9-10), pp 2046–20560956-053Xhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MiamiImageURL&_cid=271837&_user=958262&_pii=S0956053X11002571&_check=y&_origin=&_coverDate=31-Oct-2011&view=c&wchp=dGLzVBA-zSkzk&md5=94212d7e5e317753d67671080671149f/1-s2.0-S0956053X11002571-main.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/5284Copyright: 2011 Elsevier. This is a pre-print version of the paper. The definitive version is published in Waste Management, Vol 31(9-10), pp 2046–2056This study attempts to estimate the external costs of landfilling in the City of Cape Town, using the benefits transfer method (for emissions) and the hedonic pricing method (for disamenities). The results show that external costs are significant; ranging from 7% to 32% of overall costs. This illustrates the importance of taking external costs into account in comparing waste management alternatives, in order to reduce the likelihood of inappropriate decisions being made.enEnvironmentLandfillingWaste managementPricing landfill externalities: emissions and disamenity costs in Cape Town, South AfricaArticleNahman, A. (2011). Pricing landfill externalities: emissions and disamenity costs in Cape Town, South Africa. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5284Nahman, Anton "Pricing landfill externalities: emissions and disamenity costs in Cape Town, South Africa." (2011) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5284Nahman A. Pricing landfill externalities: emissions and disamenity costs in Cape Town, South Africa. 2011; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5284.TY - Article AU - Nahman, Anton AB - This study attempts to estimate the external costs of landfilling in the City of Cape Town, using the benefits transfer method (for emissions) and the hedonic pricing method (for disamenities). The results show that external costs are significant; ranging from 7% to 32% of overall costs. This illustrates the importance of taking external costs into account in comparing waste management alternatives, in order to reduce the likelihood of inappropriate decisions being made. DA - 2011-10 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Environment KW - Landfilling KW - Waste management LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 SM - 0956-053X T1 - Pricing landfill externalities: emissions and disamenity costs in Cape Town, South Africa TI - Pricing landfill externalities: emissions and disamenity costs in Cape Town, South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5284 ER -