Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Giaccaria Sergio
Author-Email: sergio.giaccaria@unito.it
Author-Name: Frontuto Vito
Author-Email: vito.frontuto@unito.it
Author-Name: Dalmazzone Silvana
Author-Email: silvana.dalmazzone@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Who’s afraid of power lines? Merging survey and GIS data to account for spatial heterogeneity
Abstract: The study offers a comprehensive assessment of the externalities produced by High Voltage Transmission 
Lines as perceived by residents in the infrastructure corridors. A GIS approach has been experimented in the sampling 
design of a CV survey in order to obtain additional information about the local context within which impacts are perceived 
and to take into account the spatial specificity of the external effects. We estimate, by means of a double-boundedlogit 
model, the marginal damage from human health, landscape and environmental effects. We differentiate the analyses 
with separate bid designs for households in close proximity to the lines, affected by a depreciation of their real 
estate property values, and for all other respondents affected by generic forms of damage linked to visual encumbrance. 
A significant explanatory contribution in the modelled utility functions of resident households is given by the implementation 
of GIS-based variables, such as the proximity to power lines, built as a distance decay indicator, and local context 
features such as density of power lines, presence of other linear infrastructures, and local environmental amenity.
Length: 20 pages
Creation-Date: 2010-01
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2010dip/2_wp_giaccaria_frontuto_dalmazzone.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:dipeco:201002