A Study On The Measurement Method Of External Cost Of Urban Noise Pollution

A quiet living surrounding is of vital importance for everyone,but heavy noise pollution followed with the process of urbanization.Noise pollution has been regarded as one of the four major pollution,which decrease our satisfaction toward life from many aspects.Currently we pay much more attention on preventing and handling with noise pollution problem,however,the present regulations are not flexible,hard to be carried out and the standards designed to charge for noise pollution is not comprehensive enough,which neglect the external costs of noise pollution.Therefore this research has investigated the problem of urban noise pollution from the perspective of external cost evaluation method comprehensively.In order to take measures against noise pollution,we need to gauge and assess the external costs of noise pollution,and tighten the management over voice environment.Hopefully this research will provide some suggestions on how to prevent and control noise pollution problem by means of analyzing the external costs of noise pollution.But as we all know that we can not use market value evaluation method to study noise,so we have to adopt the non-market value evaluation method.There are many different kinds of evaluation methods,which does not mean that all of these can be applied for the analysis for external costs of noise pollution.Three non-market value evaluation methods were introduced and the author came up with two-step approach assumption in this study.The present thesis is composed of the following five parts.Part one mainly introduces the theoretical background on external costs of noise pollution problem.Through reviewing the previous literature,this study summarize the theoretical development overall and put forward to the creative point of this thesis,that is,examining noise pollution from external costs.Part two introduces the basic theories of external cost firstly,and then classifies external costs from the perspective of reasons for causing noise pollution.And further the existing non-market evaluation methods for external costs analysis are summarized.Part three gives a description to the evaluation approach which is suitable to evaluate external costs of noise pollution based on the characteristics of noise pollution.Part four two-step approach has been proposed.Part five discusses whether it is reasonable for people to pay for noise pollution at present or in the future and reports the implications and limitations of this study.