Evaluating Communities' Willingness to Participate in Ecosystem Conservation in Southeast Tibetan Nature Reserves, China.
| Title: | Evaluating Communities' Willingness to Participate in Ecosystem Conservation in Southeast Tibetan Nature Reserves, China. |
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| Authors: | Xu, Lingxia, Xu, Wanyun, Jiang, Chao, Dai, Huxuan, Sun, Qiaoqi, Cheng, Kun, Lee, Chun-Hung, Zong, Cheng, Ma, Jianzhang |
| Source: | Land (2012); Feb2022, Vol. 11 Issue 2, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p |
| Subject Terms: | CONTINGENT valuation, WILLINGNESS to pay, ADAPTIVE natural resource management, ENVIRONMENTAL management, ADAPTIVE harvest management |
| Abstract: | Southeast Tibet is significant in maintaining key ecological functions and providing irreplaceable ecosystem services but is also extremely vulnerable and susceptible to the impacts of human activities. Understanding the attitudes of local residents toward ecosystem conservation is considered essential for nature resource management. We therefore aimed to conduct an evaluation framework under hypothetical scenarios to measure communities' willingness to participate in ecosystem conservation using the contingent valuation method (CVM). Second, this study determined the underlying factors that might affect local's willingness to participate and then compared the willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to work (WTW) for different types of nature reserves. We found that income, education, community attachment, and acceptance of a payment scheme are significant factors determining the average amount that residents are willing to pay for ecosystem conservation, while their income, acceptance of a work scheme, and education are significant factors influencing the average service time that residents are willing to devote to work. Our results revealed that community residents have considerable willingness to participate in ecosystem conservation, which points not only to the great value attached to the ecosystem service function of Southeast Tibet nature but also suggests that people's willingness to participate is influenced by a conglomeration of socio-economic characteristics and their previous experience. The information herein can be used to implement conservation planning that involves community co-management and policymaking for sustainable development and will be beneficial to the dynamic conservation and adaptive management of Tibetan nature reserves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Complementary Index |
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