Active Water Quality Management in Rural Small Watersheds

Unami, Koichi; Mabaya, Goden; Alam, Abul Hasan Md. Badiul; Fujihara, Masayuki

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5792-2_33

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“…However, agricultural nonpoint source pollution, which is caused by intensive agrochemical input in agricultural production activities, contributes to declining water quality and aquatic ecosystems [2] and has long been a difficulty in governance because it is dispersed, concealed, random, ubiquitous, and difficult to detect [3,4]. As a result, agricultural nonpoint source pollution becomes a major pollution source of the rural environment in water source regions [5,6].…”

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Incentive Measures for Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Control of Farmers Based on Choice Modelling: A Case Study on the Water Source Region of Xin’an River Reservoir

Leng

Liu

Huang

2021

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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In water governance, the government, downstream residents, and upstream farmers are closely associated stakeholders. The participation willingness of upstream farmers directly bears on the success of environmental policies. Xin’an River Reservoir Water Protection Zone is the second water source region of Hangzhou, China. Taking this region, for example, this paper surveys the willingness to accept compensation of local rice farmers, mainly using Choice Modelling (CM) methodology. This paper assesses the farmers’ willingness of minimum compensation amount to adopt various ecological compensation means and, on this basis, discusses the key factors determining their willingness to accept compensation. It helps to confirm that the farmer participation mainly depends on whether the government could provide satisfactory compensation incentives to cover farmers’ losses. Hence, at the ending of the paper, we call for the relevant departments of the government fully understanding the farmers’ willingness to accept compensation before formulating compensation policies, so that the compensation at least reaches the minimum requirements of farmers. Only in this way could the water source region achieve the optimal efficiency in environmental governance.

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