Feasibility Study on Benefit Transfer of the Rural Community Sewerage Improvement Project

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to assess the transferability benefits from the rural community sewerage improvement project. We analyze the multifunctional effects of agriculture, sewerage system, sanitary equipments, water environment improvement in rural domain and water environment improvement in public domain by contingent valuation method (CVM).The main fmdings of the analysis are listed below: 1) benefit functions of 4 effects, sewerage system, sanitary equipments, water environment improvement in rural domain and water environment improvement in public domain are transferable. 2) benefit values of 3 effects, sewerage system, sanitary equipments and water environment improvement in rural domain are transferable.