EVALUATION OF PUBLIC WELEARE IN AGRICURTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE.IRRIGATION GANALS IN KITAMI-SITY

Research Project

Project/Area Number	05660240
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Agro-economics
Research Institution	HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	DEMURA Katsuhiko FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE,HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, 農学部, 教授 (70091551)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	HIROMASA Yukio FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE,HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 農学部, 助教授 (00173295) KUROYANAGI Toshio FACULTY OF ECONOMICS,SAPPORO UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, 経済学部, 教授 (90001403)
Project Period (FY)	1993 – 1994
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1994)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000) Fiscal Year 1994: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000) Fiscal Year 1993: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Keywords	PUBLIC WELFARE / WILLINGNESS TO PAY / CONTINGENT VALUATION METHOD / CONSUMERS' SURPLUS / MULTI-PURPOSE AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT / Willingness to Pay / CVM(Contingent Value Method)
Research Abstract	The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the public welfare of agricultural infrastructure, especially agricultural irrigation canals. The case study is applied in Kitami city.Kitam's projects to construct the citizen park used with agricultural irrigation canals have completed some years ago, so people's opinions for the park near the canals are confimed so far. The methodology is CONTIGENT VALUATION METHOD which is the common and appropriate valuation method to estimate public welfare of public goods, eg.the park used with agricultural irrigation canals.The questionnaire is tested to 465 household, and valid answers is 459 (the rate of validity, 98.7%). The positive evaluation to the park used with agridultural irrigation canals are shown in 422 householders.Next, we estimated the total economic value of agricultural irrigation canals to park, so that the total amount was about 1.1 million-yen per a year.