Assessing restoration benefit of grassland ecosystem incorporating preference heterogeneity empirical data from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Cai, Yu; Zhao, Minjuan; Shi, Yuxing; Khan, Imran

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106705

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“…Frontiers in Environmental Science | www.frontiersin.org February 2022 | Volume 10 | Article 823778 8 related to utility. It means that respondents were willing to acquire more ecological improvements with fewer fees, which is consistent with related studies (Cai, et al;Yao, et al, 2018). In the random parameter variables, the mean value of the restoration area was statistically significantly at the 1% level, indicating that increasing the ecological restoration area reduced the respondents' utility.…”

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“…It also gives the respondents more opportunities to choose and weigh the pros and cons, thus revealing their preferences for different ecological restoration attributes (Johnston, 2007;Ruto and Garrod, 2008). Therefore, CE is considered the most promising research method and has been widely used to evaluate the social benefits of protection and restoration in many fields, such as watersheds, wetlands, forests, and grasslands (Schaafsma et al, 2012;Olsen et al, 2019;Cai et al, 2020;Petcharat et al, 2020).…”

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How do You Want to restore?--Assessing the Public Preferences and Social Benefits of Ecological Restoration for Natural Rubber Plantation in China

Qiao

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Revealing the public’s preference for ecological restoration projects will help increase public support and improve social benefits evaluation accuracy, which is a prerequisite for implementing ecological restoration projects. This study aimed to reveal the public’s preference for natural rubber plantation restoration projects and then quantify the social benefits of these projects to provide valuable references for related policy design. Based on choice experiments, we built a hypothetical market of ecological products and conducted a field survey to obtain the public’s preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for natural rubber plantation restoration projects. Then, a random parameters logit model was applied to obtain public preference information, and then the social benefits brought by different restoration scenarios were calculated and compared. The results showed that: 1) residents of Hainan Province had a positive attitude toward ecological restoration for natural rubber plantations and were willing to bear a personal cost. 2) respondents had significant differences in preference for attributes of restoration projects. 3) a restoration project covering 2.1 million mu of rubber plantations, prioritizing the water source protection area, focusing the implementation on state farms, and developing the under-forest breeding economy would gain more social benefits, precisely, 337.543 million yuan/year. Ecological restoration policies should pay more attention to public needs and incorporate them into future guidelines. Policymakers should focus on restoration quality instead of the restoration area. Priority should be given to rubber plantations close to the water source protection area and small householders, and an appropriate under-forest economy should be considered. This study can provide a valuable reference for policy-making related to rubber plantation restoration.

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How do You Want to restore?--Assessing the Public Preferences and Social Benefits of Ecological Restoration for Natural Rubber Plantation in China

Qiao

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…After comparing the options, respondents make a selection from one of the choices [ 36 ]. Therefore, the choice experiment is different from the direct bidding method used in the open or closed conditional value method (CVM) [ 37 ]. It simulates a trading market with different attribute combinations.…”

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Estimating the Cultural Value of Wild Animals in the Qinling Mountains, China: A Choice Experiment

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Liu

Zheng

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In this study, we use the choice experiment method to evaluate the value of wild animals in the surrounding areas of the Changqing National Nature Reserve in China. For areas focused on biodiversity conservation, the results of wild animal value evaluation can provide a basis for the formulation of local ecological compensation standards. We identified wild animals, natural landscape features, infrastructure and facilities, and ticket price as major attributes determining the utility and value of the reserve area. The results of our field survey suggest that the cultural value of wild animals is significantly higher than the value of the infrastructure and other natural landscapes. Tourists indicated a willingness-to-pay of 31.4 Yuan to see wild animals in captivity, compared to 71.9 Yuan to see wild animals in the field. Moreover, tourists with different characteristics have different preferences for the cultural value of wildlife. Female tourists have a higher willingness-to-pay than male tourists. In addition, as age, education, and income level increase, tourists’ willingness-to-pay also increases. These conclusions can provide a reference for local government to formulate wildlife protection compensation and ecotourism ticket pricing.

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“…Moreover, it is required to improve shepherd's awareness of ecosystem services, particularly in the present condition of COVID-19. The governments should keep the safety line between humans and wild animals and take on suitable strategies to manage the conflict between wildlife protection and animal husbandry production (Cai et al 2020).…”

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Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security: A New Dimension in the Era of COVID-19

El-Ramady

Singh

Rajput

et al. 2021

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U NDOUBTEDLY, COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most devastating pandemics in the recent era and major problem for sustainability of life. This virus has severely impacted both environmental and human health. Moreover, it has become the top priority among other challenging global issues including pollution, climate change, urbanization, and unsustainable consumption, which have led to major environmental disturbances and biodiversity loss. The COVID-19 may have long-lasting impacts on the environment health, biodiversity, and soil security, consequently, will raising several scientific questions to be investigated in near future including the expected environmental impacts of COVID-19 on soil, water and air, connecting the missing links between environmental pollutions and COVID-19. Most importantly, unraveling the role of soil in spreading or reducing transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic, and soil xenobiotics status under the COVID-19 outbreak. Understanding theprojected management scenario of soil and freshwater pollution in the post-COVID-19 era and the potential impact of COVID-19 on food and soil security would be of immense aid in the preparation of future pandemics. This opinion article aims to analyze and foresee some of the major issues for meeting the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.

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Assessing restoration benefit of grassland ecosystem incorporating preference heterogeneity empirical data from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

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Cited by 24 publications

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How do You Want to restore?--Assessing the Public Preferences and Social Benefits of Ecological Restoration for Natural Rubber Plantation in China

How do You Want to restore?--Assessing the Public Preferences and Social Benefits of Ecological Restoration for Natural Rubber Plantation in China

Estimating the Cultural Value of Wild Animals in the Qinling Mountains, China: A Choice Experiment

Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security: A New Dimension in the Era of COVID-19

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