A contingent valuation study comparing citizen’s willingness-to-pay for climate change Mitigation in China and the United States

Winden, Matthew; Jamelske, Eric M.; Tvinnereim, Endre

doi:10.1007/s10018-017-0202-9

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“…The lower willingness level was generated possibly due to the questions' wording difference, as the awareness of “environmental problems” (2012) was arguably higher than “climate issues” (2017) and the definition of the latter is usually part of the former. A 2018 survey concluded that “Chinese adult's and college students' willingness to pay is over two times larger than that of their US counterparts” (Winden et al, ). 2Most of the Chinese public have realized the importance to adapt to a less carbon intensive lifestyle, but the understanding level varies. …”

Section: The Macro View: Evidence From Large‐scale Environmental Publmentioning

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“…However, the higher awareness of and concerns for climate change do not necessarily turn into greater willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. As the aforementioned survey showed, Chinese adults and college students had similar willingness after controlling for income and other variables, despite students appear “to be more environmentally conscious/concerned than previous generations” (Winden et al, ). Income …”

Section: The Macro View: Evidence From Large‐scale Environmental Publmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unsurprisingly, income disparity plays a major role, particularly in determining whether the Chinese public are willing to pay for climate mitigation measures as mentioned in various survey and analysis reports (Carlsson et al, ; Duan & Hu, ; Kotchen, Boyle, & Leiserowitz, ; Li et al, ; Yang, Kahlor, & Griffin, ). The study on the willingness of Chinese adults and students showed the similar positive effect of income, but “modest in magnitude.” An additional CNY 1,000 of household income could raise the willingness to pay by approximately CNY 0.18 and CNY 0.24 for Chinese adults and students per month respectively (Winden et al, ). Higher income was also associated with a higher willingness to adapt to climate change (Schwirplies, ).…”

Section: The Macro View: Evidence From Large‐scale Environmental Publmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate change in the Chinese mind: An overview of public perceptions at macro and micro levels

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2020

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This paper summarizes the current literature on public responses to climate change in China. The paper first provides a "macro view" by reviewing what we know about public climate change knowledge, risk perceptions, policy preferences, and behaviors based on large-scale survey research. The paper also examines what sociodemographic, psychological, and cultural variablessuch as age, gender, rural/urban status, and incomecan best predict public understanding and responses to climate change. Second, it provides a "micro view" by presenting findings from place-based and contextualized research projects in China. The review concludes by suggesting next steps to advance the understanding of public engagement with climate change in China.

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Section: The Macro View: Evidence From Large‐scale Environmental Publmentioning

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Section: The Macro View: Evidence From Large‐scale Environmental Publmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate change in the Chinese mind: An overview of public perceptions at macro and micro levels

Wang

Zhou

2020

WIREs Climate Change

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“…In each question, respondents are faced with a bid amount that is willing to pay for participatory climate information services. Responses of 'NO' to that bid amount are followed up with a lower amount, while 'YES' responses are followed up with a higher amount (Winden et al, 2018). Table 1 presents the bid amounts that were used in this study.…”

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Bridging science and society : Tailor-made hydroclimatic information service with farmers in Lower Bengal Delta, Bangladesh

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The farming communities living in the Lower Bengal Delta, Bangladesh are vulnerable to hydroclimatic variability. Farming decisions are becoming risky due to unpredictable weather patterns. The southwest region of Bangladesh, located in the heart of the Lower Bengal Delta, is known as an ecologically rich and productive agriculture zone. At the same time, smallholder farming communities are confronted with recurrent hydroclimatic events such as cyclones, storm surges, tidal flooding, and salinity intrusion among others. These events severely affect the agricultural income, livelihood, and food security of farming communities. Improved management of these hydroclimate risks is necessary to improve the livelihood and food security of the smallholders. Hydroclimate information services and technology hold the potential to help smallholders to manage hydroclimatic risks through informed agricultural decision-making. However, there is a scientific challenge for developing services and bridges between the available model-based forecasts and the local context and capabilities. The central question is how hydroclimatic information services can be tailored in ways that local farmers find useful in decision-making processes for their crops and livelihood activities. Another transdisciplinary challenge is balancing information service providers and end-users, integrating social science and climate science perspectives. Understanding end-user needs and capacity, local knowledge institutions, and policy are also fundamental challenges for the co-production of services for sectoral end-users and improving the value of forecasts information. There is a need for timely, accurate, and effective hydroclimatic information services mechanisms. The existing information services are largely developed from a top-down perspective. A bottom-up approach, shaped by users' requirements, engagement and capacity building has not been attempted yet. In this dissertation, I aim to co-produce hydroclimatic information services with smallholder farmers in the lower Bengal Delta in Khulna, Bangladesh. A mixed-methods transdisciplinary research approach was applied to study current knowledge gaps that exist regarding (i) farmers' practices and the role of available information, (ii) hydroclimatic information needs of smallholders, (iii) co-production of information services with and for smallholder farmers, and (iv) willingness to pay for location-and time-specific climate information services for wider uptake, improved agricultural practices, and service sustainability. This study confirms that there is a potential for need-based tailored information services for smallholders. However, farmers' information needs assessment is not a single-step process. This requires iterative interaction and capacity building. The coproduction study shows that hydroclimate information services through actors' collaboration, capacity building of farmers, and extension officers at farmer field school lead to better understanding, accessibility, and uptake of weather...

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“…A key to a successful WTP survey is to have credible information with defensible results if implementing a project. However, the anthropocentric WTP survey has its drawbacks; notably, respondents are mostly subject to their knowledge, perception of issues, occupations, stated political orientation and incomes (Haile & Slangen, 2009;Kotchen et al, 2013;Solecki, 1998;Weber & Stewart, 2009;Winden et al, 2018). More importantly, the damage due to climate change is a global phenomenon.…”

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The Value of Carbon Sequestration in the Developing World: Making the Economic Case for Tree Planting in Laos

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A contingent valuation study comparing citizen’s willingness-to-pay for climate change Mitigation in China and the United States

Cited by 13 publications

References 32 publications

Climate change in the Chinese mind: An overview of public perceptions at macro and micro levels

Climate change in the Chinese mind: An overview of public perceptions at macro and micro levels

Bridging science and society : Tailor-made hydroclimatic information service with farmers in Lower Bengal Delta, Bangladesh

The Value of Carbon Sequestration in the Developing World: Making the Economic Case for Tree Planting in Laos

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