TY - JOUR
T1 - Transport and low-carbon fuel
T2 - A study of public preferences in Spain
AU - Loureiro, Maria L.
AU - Labandeira, Xavier
AU - Hanemann, William
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the participants in the Fifth Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics and to the two reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this paper. They are also grateful to Xiral López, Pablo Pintos and Ana Ramos for the research support. Xavier Labandeira and Maria Loureiro are respectively thankful to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness research projects ECO2009-14586-C2-01 and ECO2009-14586-C2-02. The usual disclaimer applies.
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - Transport is essential for the control of future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and thus a target for active policy intervention in the future. Yet, social preferences for policies are likely to play an important role. In this paper we first review the existing literature on preferences regarding low-GHG car fuels, but also covering policy instruments and strategies in this area. We then present the results of a survey of Spanish households aimed at measuring preferences for climate change policies. We find a positive willingness to pay (WTP) (in the form of higher car fuel prices) for a policy to reduce GHG emissions through biofuels. There is, however, significant heterogeneity in public preferences due to personal motivations (accounted for via factor analysis of responses to attitudinal questions) and to socio-demographic variables.
AB - Transport is essential for the control of future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and thus a target for active policy intervention in the future. Yet, social preferences for policies are likely to play an important role. In this paper we first review the existing literature on preferences regarding low-GHG car fuels, but also covering policy instruments and strategies in this area. We then present the results of a survey of Spanish households aimed at measuring preferences for climate change policies. We find a positive willingness to pay (WTP) (in the form of higher car fuel prices) for a policy to reduce GHG emissions through biofuels. There is, however, significant heterogeneity in public preferences due to personal motivations (accounted for via factor analysis of responses to attitudinal questions) and to socio-demographic variables.
KW - Biofuels
KW - Contingent valuation
KW - WTP
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U2 - 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.09.010
DO - 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.09.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84888340564
VL - 40
SP - S126-S133
JO - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
JF - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
SN - 0141-8130
ER -