Residential Water Demand and Water Waste in Taiwan
學年 105
學期 2
出版（發表）日期 2017-04-01
作品名稱 Residential Water Demand and Water Waste in Taiwan
作品名稱（其他語言）
著者 Hung, Ming-Feng; Chie, Bin-Tzong; Huang, Tai-Hsin
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著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 19(2), p.249-268
摘要 Residential water demand has long been an important topic of empirical research. How to estimate water waste, however, has rarely been touched. Using the stochastic frontier approach, this article jointly estimates the residential demand for water and water waste in Taiwan, where water resources are scarce and unevenly distributed throughout the island and across seasons. The empirical results confirm that residential water demand is closely related to household characteristics and the overuse of water is affected by environmental variables. The estimated price and income elasticities are below 0.1 in absolute value. The estimated amount of wasted water is around 83 L per capita per day, which is roughly 1/3 of the actual water consumption. It is also shown that overlooking the waste of water use results in an over-estimation of the subsistence water requirement.
關鍵字 Residential water demand;Water waste;Stochastic frontier approach;Price and income elasticities;Subsistence level
語言 en
ISSN 1432-847X; 1867-383X
期刊性質 國外
收錄於 EconLit Scopus NotTSSCI
產學合作
通訊作者 Hung, Ming-Feng
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國別 JPN
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