The impact of touristic infrastructures on local quality of life: the case of noise pollution in Barcelona

Document typeConference report
Defense date2012-01
PublisherInternational Forum on Urbanism
Escola Técnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
Escola Técnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
Rights accessOpen Access
Abstract
Massive tourism has made it necessary the construction of huge infrastructures to serve as
regional gates to high capacity transport systems as highways, ports and airports. In installing
such infrastructures local quality of life may be seriously disrupted. The valuation of these
negative externalities is neural in the correct assessment of touristic investment, and for the
correct planning of their integration into the urban fabric. This paper reports the results of a
research designed to assess the impact of Barcelona’s airport extension in terms of noise
increase. A contingent valuation (CV) approach was carried out in order to extract the stated
preference for noise reduction for a representative sample of residential areas.The results reveals
that airport enlargement effectively has reduced the quality of life of local residents, in such a
way, that even that they are the affected side, they are ready to pay for noise reduction.
Furthermore, the data analysis based on logistic regression models suggest two conclusions: 1)
the higher is the knowledge of the problem related to noise source, the higher is the WTP,
controlling the rest of variables, and 2) also higher is the level of protest rate.
CitationMarmolejo Duarte, Carlos Ramiro. The impact of touristic infrastructures on local quality of life: the case of noise pollution in Barcelona. A: Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism. "6th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU): TOURBANISM, Barcelona, 25-27 gener". Barcelona: IFoU, 2012, p. 1-12.
ISBN978-84-8157-620-7
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