Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 673, Issue -, Pages 622-630Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.076
Keywords
Forest ecosystem services; Feedback valuation; Land-use changes; Contingent valuation method; Benefit trade-offs
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFD0800900]
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The spontaneous expansion of tea cultivation has led to the degradation of forest ecosystem services in the Wuyishan national nature reserve (WNNR). In 2008, the local government put forward the policy of returning tea to forests (RTTF) to protect the forest ecosystem However, in order to measure its effects over the past ten years, it is necessary to accurately quantify the economic benefits of this ecological policy. This study tracked the land use changes in WNNR during the last 17 years and estimated the ecosystem service value caused by the RI II' policy We used virtual market methods to convert different types of public feedback into a unified monetary value, and estimated the economic benefits of RTTF by combining the land use changes. Results showed that the added value of forest ecosystem services not only compensated for the loss of tea profits, but also brought about remarkable economic benefits (approximately US$140 million). Through the combination of ecological changes and economic benefits, we proposed a fitture direction of the RTTF policy adjustment More broadly, we provided a method to quantify economic effects (or economic losses) from the perspective of public feedback on the basis of ecological changes. This attempt has contributed to the solving of econometric problems related to ecological policy by combining bioinformatics with ecological economics. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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