Abstract
Sustainable utilization of grassland resources was an important topic concerned by worldwide countries and regions, and ecological compensation had gradually become the main policy tool for grassland environmental management and ecological protection. This study adopted face-to-face interviews and questionnaires, and multiordered Logit model was then used to explore herdsmen’s satisfaction with Grassland Ecological Conservation Subsidy and Reward Policy (GECSRP) focusing on identifying the key factors behind it. Results showed that herdsmen were not satisfied with GECSRP on the whole, while value perception, environmental regulation and their interaction played a positive role on improving the satisfaction. Specifically, economic benefits had the strongest promotion impacts, followed by social identity in the two-dimensional variables of value perception. The guiding regulation had stronger promoting impacts, followed by the incentive regulation in the two-dimensional variables of environmental regulation. Interestingly, incentive regulation played an enhanced interaction on the influence of economic benefits and environmental value on herdsmen’s satisfaction, yet the interaction between guiding regulation and environmental value was not significant. These indicated that herdsmen paid more attention to substantial subsidies and rewards in the process of ecological livestock husbandry, and environmental regulation formulated by government had a phenomenon of “relative system failure”. Thus, the grassland ecological environment policy should be further adjusted and improved to promote the economic development of pastoral areas.
Highlights
As an important part of natural resources, grassland played an increasingly important role on promoting ecological civilization construction and economic development
Pasture land accounted for about 67% of the total land area of Inner Mongolia, which was the key region concerned by Grassland Ecological Conservation Subsidy and Reward Policy (GECSRP)
The impacts of value perception and environmental regulation on herdsmen’s policy satisfaction were explored separately, and the result was estimated in Model 1
Summary
As an important part of natural resources, grassland played an increasingly important role on promoting ecological civilization construction and economic development. The vicious cycle of grassland ecological environment deterioration was increasingly intensified due to frequent natural disasters and unreasonable utilization of grassland by human beings [1]. This seriously restricted the sustainable utilization and development of grassland resources. The vegetation coverage decreased sharply due to pasture expansion in about 70% of the grassland of the Amazon region [2] and 78% of the typical grassland in Mongolia had changed into dry or desert grassland [3].
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