THE CASE OF THE EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP IN TERMS OF WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION.
THE CASE OF THE EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP IN TERMS OF WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION.

Summary/Abstract: The present study constitutes an analysis of environmental citizenship in relation with the willingness to give part of the income for pollution prevention in three years of the last decade in Bulgaria and Romania. Results are, based on the European Values Survey’s 1999, the World Values Survey’s 2005 and the European Values Survey’s 2008 wave. Besides describing the evolution of the willingness to pay throughout the last decade, the analysis reveals the individual level determinants of the willingness to pay. Results show that nevertheless there is a considerable discrepancy between the two countries in terms of the percentage of those respondents who expressed agreement to give part of their income for pollution prevention, the longitudinal trends are the same: in both countries the percent of those willing to sacrifice diminishes in 2005 compared to 1999, respectively raises considerably between 2005 and 2008. Logit models indicate that in terms of the individual level determinates of the willingness to pay there is considerable within-country and between-country variation on the longitudinally: while in Bulgaria axiological orientation is the most stable factor in raising the willingness to pay, in Romania the educational level of the respondents is more decisive. Meanwhile (and at least based on the 2005 WVS) in both countries the willingness to pay seems to be a matter of perceived environmental problems and subjective values.

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