EJPAU 2005. Manteuffel Szoege H. , Sobolewska A. , Manteuffel Szoege W. VALUING PROTECTION OF THE RURAL LANDSCAPE IN THE PUBLIC OPINION

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2005
Volume 8
Issue 2

Topic:

Economics

ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES

Manteuffel Szoege H. , Sobolewska A. , Manteuffel Szoege W. 2005. VALUING PROTECTION OF THE RURAL LANDSCAPE IN THE PUBLIC OPINION, EJPAU 8(2), #19.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume8/issue2/abs-19.html

VALUING PROTECTION OF THE RURAL LANDSCAPE IN THE PUBLIC OPINION

Henryk Manteuffel Szoege¹, Agnieszka Sobolewska¹, Władysław Manteuffel Szoege²
¹ Department of Agricultural Economics and International Economic Relations, Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland
² Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

ABSTRACT

Willingness to pay for the removal of the billboards standing free along the roads has been investigated by using the contingent valuation method. The results of a very limited investigation carried out among the travellers on a thirty kilometre long stretch of the E77 road between Grójec and Janki near Warsaw indicate a rather significant social sensitivity to this sort of pollution of the landscape. If the willingness to pay was attached to one advertisement placed outside the fenced private property along the road, its removal should be valued at 11.32 PLN/household. Total Polish willingness to pay for removal of the standing advertisements has been roughly estimated at 8302.5 million PLN. The sensitivity to this type of landscape pollution was growing with the education and decreasing with the age and the wealth of the person interviewed, except for the highest income group. Women were more sensitive than men.

Key words: advertisements, landscape pollution, willingness to pay.

Henryk Manteuffel Szoege
Department of Agricultural Economics and International Economic Relations,
Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland
166 Nowoursynowska st., 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
email: manteuffel@alpha.sggw.waw.pl

Agnieszka Sobolewska
Department of Agricultural Economics and International Economic Relations,
Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland
166 Nowoursynowska st., 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
email: sobolewska@alpha.sggw.waw.pl

Władysław Manteuffel Szoege
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

email: vladooka@o2.pl

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