Measuring external benefits of agricultural land preservation: an application of choice experiment in Wuhan, China

Zhu, 陈竹 Chen; Dengping, 鞠登平 Ju; Anlu, 张安录 Zhang

doi:10.5846/stxb201202270264

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“…The Chinese government has made a point of retaining lands in agricultural production, since the country loses areas under cultivation because of their withdrawal from agriculture for the purpose of constructing industrial facilities, quarries, roads, and other infrastructure objects. Rural-urban land conversion presents a challenge to the ecological system, because many ecosystem services provided by agricultural land are lost in the process of conversion [69]. China's land policy envisages stabilization, and even an increase of arable area by means of tilling wild land in the northern and western provinces.…”

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Sustainable Rural Development in Northern China: Caught in a Vice between Poverty, Urban Attractions, and Migration

2018

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For a long time, the majority of China, which has the world's largest population, has been immobile and lived in rural areas. However, over recent decades, with the economic rise of China, rural labor has demonstrated a trend of moving to rapidly industrializing regions in search of higher income and better employment opportunities. Along with the labor cutback, out-migration introduces negatives to the sustainable development of rural areas, i.e., depopulation, the abandonment of rural settlements and agricultural lands, and the aging of the population, among others. Due to the threats of labor outflow to sustainability, studying the causes of China's rural out-migration can reveal lessons on how state policies can be designed to reduce the negative impacts of out-migration on rural communities. The purpose of this paper is to identify the major causes of migration movements among the rural areas of northern China that are considered to be the best-performing among the provinces of the country in terms of rural development, agricultural production, and the wealth of rural dwellers. A two-stage survey of a panel of experts involved: (1) respondents representing government officials and universities of the Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and (2) regional and district levels of administration, and research and public establishments of Heilongjiang Province. In stage three, drawing on the authors' own survey of 128 rural households in three counties of Heilongjiang Province, the major migration drivers have been identified, and the portfolio of a typical rural migrant has been developed. Some of the key findings are that migration intentions are fueled by the rural-urban income gap, poverty, a reduction of demand for labor in rural areas, underdeveloped infrastructure, the low quality of social services in rural settlements, and the low social standing of rural dwellers. The approach allows monitoring the dynamics of migration attitudes as responses to the policy interventions that are aimed at the sustainable development of rural areas.

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Sustainable Rural Development in Northern China: Caught in a Vice between Poverty, Urban Attractions, and Migration

2018

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“…However, the rapid urbanization process and the over-dosing of chemical fertilizers and pesticides used in farmland production make the farmland ecosystem become vulnerable. With reference to previous research [1,15,44], we selected farmland area, farmland fertility, water quality, air quality, species richness, and recreational value as the 7 attributes to describe the farmland non market values. The design of attribute level affects the accuracy and validity of the estimation directly.…”

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“…Therefore, by including of attributes of ecological goods and services in choice modeling, the process of taking respondents’ heterogeneous preference into consideration is highly recommended for a more accurate estimate [43]. However, as far as we are concerned, research that has explored farmers’ heterogeneous willingness to pay for farmland non-market values was either applied by contingent value method (CVM) or choice modeling (CE) with homogenous preference assumption [7,8,44]. Literature that assumes respondents’ preferences vary among every individual, mainly concentrating on the perspective of citizens [15], and very few previous studies have applied mixed logit model to account for this kind of heterogeneity coming from the perspective of present-day China.…”

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Farmers’ Heterogeneous Willingness to Pay for Farmland Non-Market Goods and Services on the Basis of a Mixed Logit Model—A Case Study of Wuhan, China

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An-lu

Zhang

2019

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The exploration of different stakeholders’ heterogeneous willingness to pay for farmland ecological value is a fundamental part of understanding the total value of farmland protection and designing a scientific farmland protection policy. Unlike the homogenous assumption used in the previous studies, the mixed logit model of choice experiment method was applied to estimate respondents’ heterogeneous willingness to pay for farmland non-market value (represented by farmland area, farmland fertility, water quality, air quality, species richness, and recreational value) in this study. Data came from a sample of 289 farmers in Wuhan, China who were face-to-face interviewed. Results showed that: (1) Farmers were unsatisfied with the status quo of the present farmland ecological environment and were willing to pay to preserve all the attributes of farmland non-market value. (2) Farmers had a heterogeneous preference for the status quo and recreational value—the error variances of these two attributes were both significant at the 1% level, and their willingness to pay for the farmland non-market value in Wuhan was 1141.88 Yuan/hm2. (3) Farmers’ cognition degree of farmland importance and whether respondents bought medical insurance or not had significant impacts on their willingness to pay. The results can provide the basic foundation for accurate valuation of farmland non-market services, help farmland regulators make the right farmland conversion decisions, and improve the resource allocation efficiency of local financial expenditure during farmland protection in Wuhan.

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“…Rural-urban land conversion provides land element for urban sprawl, industrial development and economic growth. But it also presents a challenge to the ecological system because many ecosystem services provided by agricultural land are lost in the process of conversion, which can be described as the negative external ecological effects of rural-urban land conversion [9][10][11][12][13]. Fortunately, such losses in human well-being have received increasing attention in economic analysis and public policy making, based on the ecosystem services functions as well as human well-being indicators made in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Experiment Method (CE), etc.…”

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How does the Ecological Well-Being of Urban and Rural Residents Change with Rural-Urban Land Conversion? The Case of Hubei, China

2018

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Human well-being can be affected by the loss of ecosystem services from conversion of agricultural lands. Uncovering negative ecological consequences of rural-urban conversion is important for regulating rural-urban land conversion. This paper evaluates the impacts of rural-urban land conversion on the ecological well-being of different interest groups in China and makes policy recommendations for mitigating them. This research empirically quantifies and compares changes in the ecological well-being of rural and urban residents due to rural-urban land conversion and examines how transformation factors affect such changes in Hubei, China using the Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation Model. Results show that compared with urban residents, rural resident ecological well-being level declines more obviously with rural-urban land conversion. Two socio-demographic characteristics, age and education level, as well as zoning characteristics, influence both rural and urban resident well-being changes. It is argued that there is a need for quantitative measurement of agricultural ecosystem services changes and that the construction of ecological compensation policies in areas undergoing rural-urban land conversion is essential for regulating rural-urban land conversion and for maintaining resident ecological well-being.

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Measuring external benefits of agricultural land preservation: an application of choice experiment in Wuhan, China

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Sustainable Rural Development in Northern China: Caught in a Vice between Poverty, Urban Attractions, and Migration

Sustainable Rural Development in Northern China: Caught in a Vice between Poverty, Urban Attractions, and Migration

Farmers’ Heterogeneous Willingness to Pay for Farmland Non-Market Goods and Services on the Basis of a Mixed Logit Model—A Case Study of Wuhan, China

How does the Ecological Well-Being of Urban and Rural Residents Change with Rural-Urban Land Conversion? The Case of Hubei, China

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