Equality Test of the Project's Valuation Structure of Residents with different Environmental Consciousness

Abstract

In Public Communication, the planner must give information to residents for clearing their misunderstandings that distort their valuation of the project. For that purpose, I built the parametric model that specifies these misunderstandings in Awase reclamation project in Okinawa. In the project which will lead to destruction ofthe environment, the residents who highly concern the environmental issue may have the different structure of valuation from that of the residents who do not. If so, the population must be segmented. In this paper, I investigated this by using bootstrap Chow test and concluded that the structures of the project valuation between these 2 groups were significantly different although each parameter estimate was not seriously different.