Ranking of ecosystem services on the basis of willingness to pay: Monetary assessment of a subset of ecosystem services in the Heihe River basin

Ali, Muhammad Abu Sufyan; Khan, Sufyan Ullah; Khan, Aftab Ahmad; Khan, Arshad Ahmad; Zhao, Minjuan

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139447

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“…However, they reported that education level had no relationship with WTP. Their result was opposite with our findings and other studies [1,21,40,45,48,55,56]. In addition, Ding et al, (2019) found that the level of education and family income had no significant effect on the amount respondents are willing to pay.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Education level was shown to have a significant influence on the respondents' WTP in this study. This bears similarities with other studies, which have also reported that the probability of WTP increases with an increase in level of education [1,21,40,45,48,55,56]. Ding et al, (2019) conducted a similar contingent-valuation investigation looking at the WTP of life-cycle maintenance of sponge city facilities in three pilot cities, Shenzhen, Zhenjiang, and Xi'an (two of them are case cities used in our study) in China with 481 respondents [42].…”

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confidence: 81%

“…We used this method to investigate the public's perceptions on the maintenance of GI and their attitudes toward paying a maintenance fee. The method has been used in many similar studies [1,3,21,37,42,[44][45][46][47]; Thus the method is well described and tested, but to our knowledge has not been applied in assessing willingness to pay for GI maintenance.…”

Section: Methodology 21 Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Due to the increasingly devastating impact of pluvial flooding on human beings’ lives and properties in cities, the use of green infrastructure to manage stormwater onsite is becoming more popular worldwide. The maintenance of green infrastructure to ensure its function has become one of the most pressing tasks facing policy makers. However, there is limited research regarding the willingness to pay the stormwater fee as a form of maintenance funding. This study utilized contingent valuation data obtained from a survey of 1101 respondents living in six pilot sponge cities in China to estimate the willingness to pay for the green infrastructure maintenance. The findings indicated that two-thirds of all respondents were willing to pay, 17% would like to pay around 6–10 RMB/month (0.95–1.59 US dollars/month), and 17.8% would like to pay more than 20 RMB/month (3.2 US dollars/month). The educational level and age of the respondents were significant determinants of the probability of willingness to pay and the amount they would like to pay. Knowledge of the concept of sponge cities was another significant influencing factor for the willingness to pay, but it did not influence the amount of payment. The findings could help policy makers make better strategies regarding the maintenance of green infrastructure and its costs.

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“…This implies that most people prioritize services that directly affect human health and local economies such as drinking water, farming, and fishing. This perception is largely consistent with other residents' preferences revealed in global watershed studies [2,39,44]. Among the four analyzed ecosystem services, cultural heritage and recreational activities were judged the least important.…”

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“…Sustaining healthy freshwater ecosystems is a global challenge, especially with increasing population and climate change [37,38]. Deterioration of ecological services caused by human activities and changing climate has severely threatened the food safety, human health, and sustainable development of watersheds in the US and many other countries [7,26,[38][39][40]. Ecosystem services that contribute directly to human well-being are increasingly being taken into consideration in decision-making processes and in international studies, treaties, and conventions [41][42][43].…”

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Perceived Economic Value of Ecosystem Services in the US Rio Grande Basin

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2021

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In recent decades, the US Rio Grande Basin has experienced serious ecosystem degradation as a result of recurring severe droughts and a growing population. Monetary valuation of ecosystem services is essential for encouraging conservation where natural resources such as freshwater are limited. Research in this field is still very limited, and economic estimations of ecosystem services in the US Rio Grande Basin have not been undertaken extensively. This study adds to the existing contemporary literature by means of the willingness-to-pay evaluation. We found the mean household wiliness to pay of total ecosystem services across the Rio Grande Basin to amount to USD 62/year, and the average perceived economic value was estimated to be USD 26.2, USD 19.7, USD 8.1, and USD 7.1 yearly for conservation of habitat for wildlife, provision of freshwater supplies, recreational activities, and cultural heritage, respectively. The income and perceptions about the importance of various ecosystem services in the Rio Grande Basin were among the main determinants of respondents’ assessments. The findings provide an appropriate foundation for incorporating perceived economic value into watershed management and conservation.

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As the ‘third pole’ of the world, the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is extremely ecologically sensitive and fragile, while also facing increasing levels of human activity, especially overgrazing. In this study, livestock data from the statistical yearbook were transformed to 1 km grazing intensity raster data by integrating the net primary productivity (NPP) data for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015. Furthermore, the human activity intensity (HAI) data at 1 km resolution were evaluated by the entropy weight method, which applied eight types of spatial data, including grazing intensity, Night‐Time Light, population density, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) density, the ratio of cultivated land, distance to road, distance to town and the slope of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). Also, the five‐year interval human activity intensity data on the QTP from 1990 to 2015 were evaluated. By preparing the historical spatial data sets of grazing intensity and human activity intensity, our study will help to explore the influence of human disturbance on the alpine ecosystems on the QTP, as well as provide effective support for the decision‐making of the government aiming to achieve regional ecosystem management and sustainable development.

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Ranking of ecosystem services on the basis of willingness to pay: Monetary assessment of a subset of ecosystem services in the Heihe River basin

Cited by 28 publications

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Willingness to Pay for the Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in Six Chinese Pilot Sponge Cities

Willingness to Pay for the Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in Six Chinese Pilot Sponge Cities

Perceived Economic Value of Ecosystem Services in the US Rio Grande Basin

Grazing intensity and human activity intensity data sets on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau during 1990–2015

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