Distance to river basin affects residents' willingness to pay for ecosystem services: Evidence from the Xijiang river basin in China

Residents' willingness to pay (WTP) for ecosystem services plays a key role in improving the functions of ecosystems. Previous studies have mainly focused on the differences in residents' WTP in the upper, middle, and lower reaches of river basins. However, the relationship between the ver...

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Autores principales: Peng Cheng, Houtian Tang, Siyang Zhu, Ping Jiang, Jing Wang, Xuesong Kong, Ke Liu
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f5c02ec8ea904a4cbc341bd5b48f49582021-12-01T04:51:26ZDistance to river basin affects residents' willingness to pay for ecosystem services: Evidence from the Xijiang river basin in China1470-160X10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107691https://doaj.org/article/f5c02ec8ea904a4cbc341bd5b48f49582021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21003563https://doaj.org/toc/1470-160XResidents' willingness to pay (WTP) for ecosystem services plays a key role in improving the functions of ecosystems. Previous studies have mainly focused on the differences in residents' WTP in the upper, middle, and lower reaches of river basins. However, the relationship between the vertical distance to river basins and residents' WTP for ecosystem services remains unclear. We conduct a questionnaire survey using a sample of 755 people from 32 villages in the Xijiang River Basin (XJRB), an important water system in China. The influence of the vertical distance to the XJRB on residents' WTP for ecosystem services is analyzed by using a multinomial logit model and latent class model. The key findings are as follows: (1) Residents' WTP for ecosystem services is significantly different with different distances to the XJRB. Respondents within a distance of 3 km to the XJRB have a stronger WTP. (2) The spatial heterogeneity of the influences of distance to the XJRB is well verified, and classifies residents into different latent groups. (3) Comparing WTP at the vertical distance level and horizontal level in the XJRB shows that residents have stronger overall preferences and latent group preferences at the vertical distance level. These findings contribute to our understanding of the relationship between spatial distance to the river basin and residents' WTP for ecosystem services, which should be useful in implementing differentiated river ecosystem service restoration policy.Peng ChengHoutian TangSiyang ZhuPing JiangJing WangXuesong KongKe LiuElsevierarticleRiver ecosystemsWillingness to payPreference heterogeneityChoice experiment methodLatent class modelEcologyQH540-549.5ENEcological Indicators, Vol 126, Iss , Pp 107691- (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic River ecosystems
Willingness to pay
Preference heterogeneity
Choice experiment method
Latent class model
Ecology
QH540-549.5
spellingShingle River ecosystems
Willingness to pay
Preference heterogeneity
Choice experiment method
Latent class model
Ecology
QH540-549.5
Peng Cheng
Houtian Tang
Siyang Zhu
Ping Jiang
Jing Wang
Xuesong Kong
Ke Liu
Distance to river basin affects residents' willingness to pay for ecosystem services: Evidence from the Xijiang river basin in China
description Residents' willingness to pay (WTP) for ecosystem services plays a key role in improving the functions of ecosystems. Previous studies have mainly focused on the differences in residents' WTP in the upper, middle, and lower reaches of river basins. However, the relationship between the vertical distance to river basins and residents' WTP for ecosystem services remains unclear. We conduct a questionnaire survey using a sample of 755 people from 32 villages in the Xijiang River Basin (XJRB), an important water system in China. The influence of the vertical distance to the XJRB on residents' WTP for ecosystem services is analyzed by using a multinomial logit model and latent class model. The key findings are as follows: (1) Residents' WTP for ecosystem services is significantly different with different distances to the XJRB. Respondents within a distance of 3 km to the XJRB have a stronger WTP. (2) The spatial heterogeneity of the influences of distance to the XJRB is well verified, and classifies residents into different latent groups. (3) Comparing WTP at the vertical distance level and horizontal level in the XJRB shows that residents have stronger overall preferences and latent group preferences at the vertical distance level. These findings contribute to our understanding of the relationship between spatial distance to the river basin and residents' WTP for ecosystem services, which should be useful in implementing differentiated river ecosystem service restoration policy.
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author Peng Cheng
Houtian Tang
Siyang Zhu
Ping Jiang
Jing Wang
Xuesong Kong
Ke Liu
author_facet Peng Cheng
Houtian Tang
Siyang Zhu
Ping Jiang
Jing Wang
Xuesong Kong
Ke Liu
author_sort Peng Cheng
title Distance to river basin affects residents' willingness to pay for ecosystem services: Evidence from the Xijiang river basin in China
title_short Distance to river basin affects residents' willingness to pay for ecosystem services: Evidence from the Xijiang river basin in China
title_full Distance to river basin affects residents' willingness to pay for ecosystem services: Evidence from the Xijiang river basin in China
title_fullStr Distance to river basin affects residents' willingness to pay for ecosystem services: Evidence from the Xijiang river basin in China
title_full_unstemmed Distance to river basin affects residents' willingness to pay for ecosystem services: Evidence from the Xijiang river basin in China
title_sort distance to river basin affects residents' willingness to pay for ecosystem services: evidence from the xijiang river basin in china
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/f5c02ec8ea904a4cbc341bd5b48f4958
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