Rural households' willingness to accept compensation for energy utilization of crop straw in China

He, Kebin; Zhang, Junbiao; Zeng, Yangmei

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2018.09.023

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“…More traditional methods are being used (information campaigns and feedback) to stimulate households to change their behavior. However, these measures tend to be of a short-term nature, as they ignore the underlying causes of such practices [15]. A more efficient solution is a practice-oriented design, where innovative technologies are created jointly with a user.…”

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Households’ Energy Autonomy: Risks or Benefits for a State?

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The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of households’ energy autonomy on a country’s energy independence level, to identify prospects and risks. To assess the economic efficiency of households’ energy autonomy, the study used a modeling method based on maximizing the net present value, determining the average notional cost of energy efficiency and the level of energy independence in 20 countries. Based on the analysis of the volumes of electricity consumption by households in the studied countries for the period 2000–2018, it was revealed that in developed and developing countries there is an increase in this indicator. Diagnostics of the investment attractiveness of the installation and operation of energy systems for households makes it possible to determine the boundaries of a possible increase in the level of their energy autonomy. The scientific novelty of the research is represented by the proposed methodological approach, which makes it possible to assess the level of energy dependence of countries, possible deviations, and an increase in households’ energy autonomy in relation to the risk limit of energy dependence. The proposed methodological approach allowed the authors to prove the positive impact of increasing households’ energy autonomy for most developed countries. The most positive effect is characteristic of the leading countries in fossil energy market.

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Households’ Energy Autonomy: Risks or Benefits for a State?

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“…The aforementioned studies mainly adopt the CVM to estimate residents' WTA and its level for ecological conservation; this is a simple and flexible non-market method [30], which is generally applied to cost-benefit analysis and environmental impact assessment of non-market resources [16], such as the energy utilization of crop straw [31]; improvement of water quality [32]; and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of diseases [33]. Moreover, the method has been widely accepted by scholars [34].…”

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Determinants of Residents’ Willingness to Accept and Their Levels for Ecological Conservation in Ganjiang River Basin, China: An Empirical Analysis of Survey Data for 677 Households

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Using the contingent valuation method and the Heckman two-stage model, we explore residents’ willingness to accept (WTA) compensation and their WTA level for ecological conservation compensation in the upstream of the Ganjiang River Basin in China. The findings reveal that 86.26% of the respondents are willing to accept compensation, and the average compensation level is ¥789.60/household per year. The residents’ gender, annual disposable income, residential location, decision on whether or not the watershed environment is important, and their satisfaction with water quality and quantity are significantly related to their WTA. The influencing factors that significantly affect compensation level are residents’ occupation, educational background, annual disposable income, family size, residential location, decision on whether or not the watershed environment is important, and their satisfaction with water quality and quantity. The results of this empirical research have important policy implications: the government should strengthen advocacy and education of watershed ecological environment protection, intensify farming and other agricultural activities, establish a differentiated and diversified compensation strategy, so as to protect and improve the ecological environment of the Ganjiang River Basin.

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“…From the perspective of stakeholders, the current main research results of surveys on the willingness of each link for biogas, such as, rural residents' willingness to participate in collective biogas investment [26,27], households' willingness to accept compensation for agricultural waste recycling [28], and rural households' willingness to accept compensation for energy utilization of crop straw [29]. At present, there is no research about the rural residents on the willingness to use and willingness to buy for concentrated biogas production.…”

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Residents’ Willingness for Centralized Biogas Production in Hebei and Shandong Provinces

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Nowadays, in the North China Plain (NCP), most counties and suburban rural regions are promoting the "coal to gas" program under the situation of strong government support of large and medium-sized centralized biogas production (CBP) projects. This paper is aimed at the CBP projects, focuses on rural residents’ “willingness to use (WTU)”, “willingness to buy (WTB)” and the influencing factors for WTU/WTB. Through the analysis of rural residents from Hebei and Shandong provinces that belong to NCP in this survey, we find that 85% of respondents support the CBP program and the WTB is 63.15 CNY/year per capita, which is much lower than the cost of rural CBP in existing survey regions. The participation of rural residents is not only a manifestation of personal and family characteristics; understanding of environmental knowledge, attitudes, and household energy practices are more important. These non-economic factors seriously affect WTU/WTB. Hence, it is necessary to appropriately increase the government revenue to such projects, strengthen government guidance and publicity, improve the environmental knowledge and attitude of rural residents and guide residents’ practice. Based on a fully understanding of residents’ consumption decision mechanism, we establish a financial support mechanism due to the demand response, adopt a correct calculation for financial support, such as a reasonable subsidy rate, and seek the greatest commonality of cost, financial support, and demand.

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Rural households' willingness to accept compensation for energy utilization of crop straw in China

Cited by 55 publications

References 34 publications

Households’ Energy Autonomy: Risks or Benefits for a State?

Households’ Energy Autonomy: Risks or Benefits for a State?

Determinants of Residents’ Willingness to Accept and Their Levels for Ecological Conservation in Ganjiang River Basin, China: An Empirical Analysis of Survey Data for 677 Households

Residents’ Willingness for Centralized Biogas Production in Hebei and Shandong Provinces

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