Herdsmen's preference and willingness to pay for grassland management policy: An empirical comparisons from the grazing forbidden areas and grass-livestock balance areas

ZHANG Chen; ZHAO Min-juan; QIU Huan-guang

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China Environmental Science ›› 2020, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (9) : 4167-4176.

Environmental Impact Assessment and Management

Herdsmen's preference and willingness to pay for grassland management policy: An empirical comparisons from the grazing forbidden areas and grass-livestock balance areas

ZHANG Chen¹, ZHAO Min-juan², QIU Huan-guang¹

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The typical grazing forbidden areas and grass-livestock balance areas in the ecologically fragile areas of Inner Mongolia were selected to carry out a comparative study. Based on the basic ecological social and economic conditions of the region, a selection questionnaire for grassland management was designed, and the Mixed Logit model was used to analyze the herdsmen's preference and paying willingness for grassland management, using willingness to pay as the basis for the measurement of herdsmen's effectiveness from grassland ecological improvement, and finally proposed a corresponding compensation standard through overall welfare analysis. The results showed that the herdsmen of the two areas have different preferences for grassland management, and the herdsmen's willingness to pay of the grazing forbidden areas was significantly higher than the grass-livestock balance areas. The minimum compensation standard for grazing forbidden areas should be 0.57 yuan/hm², and the compensation standard for grass-livestock balance areas was 0.23yuan/hm². Herdsmen in grazing forbidden areas preferred landscape construction, while herders in grass-livestock balance areas preferred groundwater levels to rise.

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choice experiment / ecological value / grassland management / willingness to pay

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ZHANG Chen, ZHAO Min-juan, QIU Huan-guang. Herdsmen's preference and willingness to pay for grassland management policy: An empirical comparisons from the grazing forbidden areas and grass-livestock balance areas[J]. China Environmental Science. 2020, 40(9): 4167-4176

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