Urban Community Willingness to Pay for Improved Solid Waste Management in Malaysian Municipality: A Choice Modeling Approach

Subhan, Muhammad; Ghani, Ahmad Bashawir Abdul; Joarder, Mohd Hasanur Raihan

doi:10.5539/ass.v10n18p122

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“…However, the gender variable is statistically insignificant and we could not derive any relationship, but the finding is consistent with other similar studies [15,19,21,31]. Some studies found the age variable to have a positive relationship with the maximum WTP amount [21,30,33]. However, this study expected that younger household heads, who could be more educated and aware of the importance of proper waste management, would pay more for improved waste collection service as found by Padi et al [15].…”

Section: Factors Influencing Amount Of Money That Households Are Willsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…7.7 (0.08 US$) per month. This positive relationship is also supported by other similar studies [15,19,30,31,33].…”

Section: Factors Influencing Amount Of Money That Households Are Willsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…There are many studies which have found that income is positively significantly related to the WTP for improved SWM services [15,16,18,19,23,26,[29][30][31]33]. Income is expected to have a strong influence on the demand for environmental quality and affordability to pay higher waste collection fees.…”

Section: Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

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Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Waste Collection Service in Gorkha Municipality of Nepal

Maskey

Singh²

2017

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Municipal solid waste management is a growing problem in urban areas of Nepal where municipalities are severely constrained by budget to manage it effectively. Collecting fees from the public can aid finance for improving waste management service. This study evaluates willingness to pay (WTP) by 401 households, selected using a stratified sampling method from all 15 wards of Gorkha municipality of Nepal for improved waste collection service and the factors influencing it. We employed a contingent valuation method to elicit households' WTP, logit regression model to determine factors influencing WTP and tobit regression model to determine factors influencing the maximum amount households are willing to pay for improved waste collection service. Majority of households (61%) are willing to pay an average amount of NRs. 73.38 (0.72 US$) per month. Factors that significantly influence households' WTP are monthly household income, education of household head, environmental awareness and waste collection service. Except for education of household head, all these factors significantly influence the maximum amount of money households are willing to pay. Concerned stakeholders and policy makers should consider these traits of households before enforcing a waste collection fee.

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Section: Factors Influencing Amount Of Money That Households Are Willsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…7.7 (0.08 US$) per month. This positive relationship is also supported by other similar studies [15,19,30,31,33].…”

Section: Factors Influencing Amount Of Money That Households Are Willsupporting

confidence: 81%

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Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Waste Collection Service in Gorkha Municipality of Nepal

Maskey

Singh²

2017

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“…To makes a meaningful development within the demarcation of local council, the needs and wants of the inhabitants' fulfilment represents the activeness of the local councils. In Malaysia the position of local councils allow them to take the responsibility of providing services to the local community [55,82,85,94]. If the municipal services delivered by the local councils are perceived as poor, the future of good governance and professional images of this local councils will be at stake [85].…”

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Evidence of Municipal Awareness as a Construct for Enhancing Citizen Satisfaction in Municipal Council of Malaysia

Bello

Kasim

Razali

et al. 2018

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Abstract. This research study critically analysed the existing literature on municipal awareness relevancy of Municipal councils' service delivery for the purpose of enhancing citizen satisfaction. The purpose of the study is the investigation of citizen satisfaction level of municipal services. Analysis of the existing literature on the relationship between municipal awareness and citizen satisfaction. The Material and methods were carried out using secondary data and were meticulously and critically analysed to come up with reliable results. The study shows the relevancy of the public awareness, citizen satisfaction and municipal council performance in Malaysia. It is evident in the research that citizen consent is important before municipal services should be provided in the local community. The research study highlighted many discrepancies in many kinds of literature related to the existing research study, the evidence-based analysis was carried out to buttress importance and significance of the related study to the research work. The literature was reviewed to ascertain the current happening in the area of local government service delivery. The study shows that many municipal councils in Malaysia provide adequate and satisfactory services to their citizens'. The study also revealed that municipal council plays an important role in citizen awareness of municipal service delivery. The study concludes that municipal service delivery can be enhanced through citizen awareness campaign, to sensitise the local community on various aspects of service delivery including maintenance of the facilities provided. The study also concludes that Municipal councils lack awareness section affects their performance in service delivery process. The study recommends that Municipal councils officials need to be consulted the citizen for their needs and wants; awareness campaign needs to be regularly carried out to maintain cordial relationship between Municipal councils and their citizen; it is also recommended that municipal services should be delivered the needed services by the local inhabitants' after duly consultation.

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“…In fact, in the context of development, people who use the input of energy, materials and technology to carry out daily activities in a city could create urban ecosystem deterioration intentionally or unintentionally (Jahi, 1996;Hussain & Ismail, 2013). Even everyday activities by human development in a town have created too much problems to the ecosystem despite the positive impact of the development (Hassan, Awang, & Jaafar, 2006;Pini, River, & McKenzie, 2007;Subhan, Ghani, & Joarder, 2014). The beneficial effects left by urban development such as an opportunity increase to quality of life, economic growth and physical development of urban city are certainly needed by society.…”

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confidence: 99%

Community Involvement in Urban Environmental Management System

Ismail¹,

Hussain²,

Noh³

et al. 2015

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The government of Malaysia has implemented various measures in the environmental management system, such as organizing an urban environmental management program. However, the environmental degradation problem in urban areas in the country is still alarming especially associated with the community engagement in protecting the urban environment. This study attempted to identify the level of community involvement in urban environmental management program in Malaysia based on 320 respondents. The results showed that the planning and enforcement activities by the community in the urban environmental management program were very low. In fact, the study also found that all the respondents in this survey did not execute their monitoring activities due to they assumed that the task should be undertaken by the government. The study concluded that contributing factors to the impairment of urban ecosystems in the study area is due to the vulnerability level of community involvement. Therefore, a better urban environmental management system is important to ensure higher community involvement in the urban environmental management program in strong collaboration with other concerned parties, especially the relevant government departments and the local authority.

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Urban Community Willingness to Pay for Improved Solid Waste Management in Malaysian Municipality: A Choice Modeling Approach

Cited by 22 publications

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Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Waste Collection Service in Gorkha Municipality of Nepal

Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Waste Collection Service in Gorkha Municipality of Nepal

Evidence of Municipal Awareness as a Construct for Enhancing Citizen Satisfaction in Municipal Council of Malaysia

Community Involvement in Urban Environmental Management System

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