Agriculture is an important sector in Ghana's economy, however, with high risk due to natural factors like climate change, pests and diseases and bush fires among others. Farmers in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana which is known as one of the major cocoa producing regions, face these risks which sometimes results in crop failure. The need for farmers to therefore insure their farms against crop...

This paper reports a survey study of willingness to pay for air quality improvement in Sofia, Bulgaria. The stochastic payment card approach, which asks respondents the likelihood that she would agree to pay a series of prices, was employed to estimate individuals' willingness-to-pay distributions. The results show that people in Sofia were willing to pay up to about 4.2% of their income for an...

Given the important role that electricity plays in powering society, and significant risk extreme weather other events pose disrupting supply, idea of community-scale microgrids has come to forefront enhance electrical grid resiliency provide critical services local communities during extended outages. In this paper, a discrete choice experiment is used evaluate willingness pay (WTP) for provid...