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Journal of Desert Research ›› 2022, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2): 54-61.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2021.00095

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Influencing factors of residentswillingness to pay for ecological compens-ation in sand area of Alxa Left BannerInner MongoliaChina

Xiaoya Zhang1,3(), Fenglian Du2()   

  1. 1.School of Ethnology and Sociology /, Inner Mongolia University,Hohhot 010021,China
    2.School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University,Hohhot 010021,China
    3.School of Business,Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics,Hohhot 010070,China
  • Received:2021-03-25 Revised:2021-07-15 Online:2022-03-20 Published:2022-03-30
  • Contact: Fenglian Du

Abstract:

Promoting a comprehensive control of mountain, river, forest, farmland, lake, grassland, and sand is the new task of desertification control, for which one key strategy can be ascribed to establishing a market-oriented and diversified ecological compensation mechanism. Based on the survey data from 224 households in Alxa Left Banner, the payment card (PC) contingent valuation method (CVM) and Heckman two-stage model were adopted to analyze the influencing factors of residents’ willingness to pay for ecological compensation in sand area. The results show that 86.61% of the residents have the willingness to pay for ecological compensation, yet the left ones (13.39%) have no willingness. The residents’ willingness to pay is 649.3 Yuan per family per year, accounting for about 0.76% of the average household income. The compensation willingness and payment level are mainly affected by the personal-, family-, and cognitive-features of the local people. Therefore, the government should strengthen the propaganda of the ecological compensation policies, encourage diversified employment methods, establish diversified payment methods of ecological compensation and differentiated collection standards of ecological compensation, so as to provide reference for the construction of diversified ecological compensation mechanism and the improvement of ecological compensation policy.

Key words: Alxa Left Banner, ecological compensation, willingness to pay, influencing factor, Heckman Two-stage Model

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