Valoración Económica Ambiental del Recurso Aire en el Cantón Riobamba

The focus of this project is based on the Environmental Economic Valuation of the air resource in the Riobamba Canton which consists of applying the Contingent Valuation method in addition to knowing the willingness to pay of the location, the objective is to give an economic value to the resource air to improve or preserve the air quality of Riobamba. A baseline of the air resource was defined which was carried out using the information obtained from the reports of the air quality monitoring carried out by the GADM Riobamba, the monitoring parameters were Settling Particles, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Ozone and Benzene, the study areas where the monitoring stations can be used as a reference were also determined, defining three areas Urbano (North-Center), Urban Marginal (UNACH-EMAPAR) and Rural (Gatazo Zambrano), in these areas of In this study, the Contingent Valuation Method was used, which consists of asking directly through the application of surveys aimed at the Riobamba society in each of the sectors with the request to obtain sufficient information to establish a monetary value for the air resource, thus Even with the information obtained, the statistical analysis of the data was performed using specific software. It was established that the people surveyed for the North sector was a willingness to pay of $ 0.94, for the Center sector it was $ 0.86, for the UNACH sector it was $ 0.79, while the EMAPAR sector was $ 0.86 and finally the Gatazo sector that was $ 0.65, all these values through annual contributions to maintain, improve and conserve the air resource.