Abstract

This study takes 8 cities in Shaanxi province as the research object and uses the multilayer linear model specifically for nested structure data to introduce the urban macroexplanatory variables on the basis of individual level of residents and influence the willingness of urban residents to pay for forest ecological services. The factors are analyzed in multiple layers to find out the prediction effect on ecological payment, and on this basis, corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are put forward. The results show that regional differences have a significant impact on residents’ willingness to pay for forest ecological services; individual characteristics and regional characteristics can independently have a significant impact on residents’ willingness to pay; after introducing macrolevel variables, individual-level environmental awareness and per capita income, five variables, such as education level, place of residence, and age, have significant predictive effects on residents’ willingness to pay; among them, the interaction between consumer price index and environmental awareness is the largest, followed by the interaction between consumer price index and age. Per capita social security is the interaction between expenditure and environmental awareness. Finally, that is the interaction between the per capita social security expenditure and age and the interaction between the average salary of employees and the monthly per capita income.

Highlights

  • China has experienced rapid urbanization in the past 30 years

  • Create favorable environmental conditions for urban residents to participate in the ecological construction of public welfare forest areas, strive to reveal the law of the interaction between regional economic and social development and resources and environment, and make the forest ecosystem an open system, so that the forest area can obtain the funds needed for development from the economically developed areas outside the system and provide excellent ecological services to the surrounding areas. is will help fundamentally solve the shortage of ecological benefit compensation funds, help residents in beneficiary areas to participate in forest ecological construction in public welfare forest areas, and more help to supplement and improve the ways to realize the value of forest ecological services in public welfare forest areas

  • (1) What is the impact of different regional socioeconomic characteristics on residents’ willingness to pay for forest ecological services? (2) If there is any impact, what are the regional differences in factors affecting the willingness of residents to pay for forest ecological services? (3) After controlling the influence of other factors, especially the characteristics of individual residents, what is the impact of regional differences on the willingness of residents to pay for forest ecological services?

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Summary

Introduction

It is predicted that 75.8% of Chinese people will live in cities by 2050, and the total urban population will exceed 900 million (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2014) In this process, the utilization of construction land and resources in the urban center and its surrounding areas will increase day by day. Create favorable environmental conditions for urban residents to participate in the ecological construction of public welfare forest areas, strive to reveal the law of the interaction between regional economic and social development and resources and environment, and make the forest ecosystem an open system, so that the forest area can obtain the funds needed for development from the economically developed areas outside the system and provide excellent ecological services to the surrounding areas. Create favorable environmental conditions for urban residents to participate in the ecological construction of public welfare forest areas, strive to reveal the law of the interaction between regional economic and social development and resources and environment, and make the forest ecosystem an open system, so that the forest area can obtain the funds needed for development from the economically developed areas outside the system and provide excellent ecological services to the surrounding areas. is will help fundamentally solve the shortage of ecological benefit compensation funds, help residents in beneficiary areas to participate in forest ecological construction in public welfare forest areas, and more help to supplement and improve the ways to realize the value of forest ecological services in public welfare forest areas

Literature Review and Research Design
Data and Methods
Variable Selection
Empirical and Analytical
Findings
Conclusions and Policy Recommendations
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