Abstract
This paper mainly concentrates on the livelihood affordable conditions of living in the polluted areas and the people attribution against of pollution. To support the study researcher has also studied and analyzed the hedonic pricing method to assess the ten years government guideline value and present market value of the select type of land. The market value of per square feet rate is normally higher than the government guideline value of select type of land in villages in Karur district and it is highly is decreased. Many villages nearby the factory zones are priced higher value and many remote villages are priced too low. Hence, there is no pollution impact on the price of the land value. Therefore, researcher has studied the impact of pollution and price of the land. The demand level of the market price and supply of government guideline value are taken to the hedonic pricing method (HPM) and it is based on assumption.
Keyword: Environmental quality, Hedonic pricing approach, Livelihood, Surrogate markets.
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