Housing location decision under environmental risk: The effects of the Yucca Mountain waste repository

Yucca Mountain is the site of a potential high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada. The risks to health and safety of transporting and storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain may induce the residents of Nevada to move. When offered compensation, residents will weigh potential negative effects to their health from transporting and storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain against the amount of money offered. The presence of a threshold value between the bid amount offered and the level of risk perception indicates that at some level of risk, people cannot be induced to stay by compensation. My models indicate that with no compensation, 43% and 28% of respondents will move from the transportation and storage risk of the nuclear waste, respectively. However, compensation of {dollar}5,000 annually per household will offset additional risks to health and safety from transporting and storing the nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain for 92% of individuals surveyed. However, additional amounts of compensation over {dollar}5,000 will not increase the number of people who stay.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

2000

Author dc:creator

• Dwyer, Christine Noel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Mary C. Riddel

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1241

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2240