HEDONIC PRICE APPROACH OF FLOOD EFFECT ON AGRICULTURAL LAND
Abstract
The natural disasters that took place in many parts of Indonesia in the last 10 years have caused an
enormous losses, including agricultural sector. The objective of this paper is to estimate the magnitude
of the influence of flood disaster on land price changes in Yogyakarta, using a hedonic price
approach. The sample are is choosen from the vulnerable flood area mapped by Geographical Information
Systems (GIS), from which farmers and land owner are selected as the respondents. The
paper finds the evidence of a high level of flood stream coefficient, indicating that the flood significantly
reduces the land price. The average of household’s marginal willingness to pay for the
decrease in flood stream level is estimated to be Rp 2.175.