In response to the increased competition for water, Chinese government has determined promote water-saving irrigation (WSI) followed by a range of institutional arrangements and policy goals. Three management mechanisms are analyzed in this study terms effectiveness, including top-down regulation mechanism using direct control or economic instruments, design-bid funding mobilizing local governments competitive grants program, bottom-up participation transferring more responsibilities...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate consumer preference and willingness pay for eco-labelled eggs using cross-sectional data collected from Chongqing Municipality in China. Design/methodology/approach This study employs both conditional logistic model mixed conduct the empirical analysis. Findings results show that individual heterogeneous attributes significantly influence choices. More specifically, higher per capita income, families with pregnant women or children, level...

Melatonin is a stress-related hormone that plays critical role in triggering the plant defence system and regulating secondary metabolism when plants are exposed to stress. To explore potential roles of melatonin response Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation, we examined effects exogenous on rosemary vitro shoots under UV-B The application (50 μM) alleviated adverse stress biomass, photosynthetic pigment contents, membrane lipids shoots. significantly increased superoxide dismutase (1.15.1.1,...

The importance of understanding people's preferences and the well-being river systems cannot be overstated when it comes to effective restoration long-term management these systems. This study aimed determine people in Hei River Basin China regarding conservation, restoration, development ecological their associated services. research utilized a combination random parameter logit models for distance decay. collected data using choice experiment method separated area into three distance-based...

Integrated river basin management (IRBM) programs have been launched in most parts of China to ease escalating environmental degradation. Meanwhile, little is known about the benefits from and support for these programs. This paper presents a case study preference heterogeneity IRBM Shiyang River Basin, China, as measured by Willingness Pay (WTP), set major restoration attributes. A discrete choice analysis relevant attributes was conducted. The results based on sample 1012 households whole...

This paper evaluates the common practice of generic mapping in stated preference valuation, which identical policy area maps are shown to all respondents. is compared a more information-intensive alternative individualized identify location each respondent's home relative effects. The evaluation grounded theoretical model clarifying impact spatial information on preferences for non-market outcomes. illustrated using an application choice experiments riparian restoration coastal Maine....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess how spatial heterogeneity and production diversification have affected the efficiency households participating in SLCP. Design/methodology/approach Based on household survey data collected from three sample counties Loess Plateau region, analyzes business Using four-step bootstrap, input stochastic distance frontiers multi-inputs multi-outputs are developed simultaneously with a technical effects model which SLCP treated as an exogenous...

Abstract Stated preference analyses seeking to determine the public's value for air quality improvements often estimate willingness pay (WTP) days at a specified minimum threshold (e.g., with clean air), but do not consider temporal distribution of pollution levels below this threshold. This paper develops choice experiment designed evaluate WTP more complete improvements, including number per year multiple levels. The model is applied case study improvement in core districts Xi'an City,...

This study investigates the economic and ecological impacts of straw returning technology among apple growers in Shaanxi Gansu provinces, China. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) survey data, findings reveal that significantly increases farmers’ incomes by 20.33% compared to those who do not adopt technology. Additionally, mitigates soil fertility decline 11.07%, offering substantial benefits. The heterogeneity analysis highlights older farmers benefit more from terms both income...

This paper presents an application of a choice experiment measuring public preferences for farmland retirement project (FRP) in the Gansu environmental degraded region China. The helps improve China’s long-term food security, and information on can be used to cost-effectively design such policies. FRP is conceptualized with four attributes relating preferences: Areas enrolled program, duration contract, priority zone conservation, vegetation type planting. analysis employs mixed logit model,...

Revealing public preferences regarding the ecological restoration of a river basin and evaluating associated social benefits provide important references for development related policies. Taking Shiyang River Basin as an example, this study quantified analyzed difference in by choice experiments method random parameters logit (RPL) model. It also evaluated restoration. The results showed that (1) residents all hoped to improve environment were willing bear certain costs. (2) There...

Evaluations connect ecosystem and human welfare to achieve restoration. There have been an increasing number of studies conducted on various service assessments, but little research has focused inland river basins playing a critical role in development northwestern China. The distinct differences natural endowment, socioeconomic characteristics among the upper, middle downstream basin require heterogeneity during evaluation. objective this study was verify existence population preference...