Willingness to Pay for the Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in Six Chinese Pilot Sponge Cities

Qiao, Xiu-Juan; Randrup, Thomas B.

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“…Our study showed that the socioeconomic backgrounds of the respondents contributed to the heterogeneity in residents’ preferences and their WTP for ecological improvement schemes. This outcome is in line with the study by [ 70 ]. Our findings are similar to the results of the study by [ 71 ], which used a similar approach to evaluate the attitudes and WTP values of local residents for deep-sea ecosystem conservation in England.…”

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Estimating the Economic Values of Restricted Monoculture Eucalyptus Plantations: A Choice Modeling Approach

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Senbeta

Alemu³

et al. 2022

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Today, evaluating ecological wellbeing and ecosystem services is becoming a great concern towards conserving the natural resource base. Healthy functioning ecosystems have fundamental roles for aiding humankind to lead a healthy life and ensure an improved social welfare. Estimating the non-market benefits of ecosystem services can help experts and the public frame policy directions designed for landscape development. The ecosystem of the Eucalyptus hotspot highlands of northwestern Ethiopia, where this study was carried out, provides services that are essential to changes in the life of the society and biodiversity. However, in recent years, the ecosystem is facing a serious threat from intensive monoculture plantations of Eucalyptus. This has resulted in transformation of the cultural landscapes and a loss of biodiversity. The problem in turn calls for designing appropriate ecological improvement programs. Thus, the current study examined the preferences of residents concerning this area and estimated their willingness to pay (WTP) for the proposed ecosystem improvement programs using a Choice Experiment approach. Data were aggregated from 388 residents using a questionnaire survey in January 2020. The survey contained ecological improvement schemes and a hypothetical event by which respondents expressed their willingness to pay a yearly utility fee as a compensation for the improvement programs. Results showed significant differences in resident preferences towards the proposed ecological improvement attributes. The findings also indicated that the socioeconomic backgrounds of residents contributed for the heterogeneity in their WTP for ecological improvement schemes. Accordingly, the marginal willingness to pay of residents was USD 205/person/year for the respective ecological improvement attributes. The findings suggest that policy makers should consider such attribute-based public preferences while planning landscape development and conservation programs. This study can provide vital policy implications and contribute to knowledge as it presents how the non-market valuations of ecosystems help maximize social welfare.

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confidence: 93%

Estimating the Economic Values of Restricted Monoculture Eucalyptus Plantations: A Choice Modeling Approach

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“…This is confirmed by the answers collected regarding the willingness to participate financially in the maintenance of urban green areas, for which only half of the sample was in favour. In fact, 26.0% of the sample was not willing to pay for the Frontiers in Environmental Science frontiersin.org maintenance of their city's GIs, a result that is close to that shown in other researches (Derkzen et al, 2017;Exposito et al, 2021;Qiao and Randrup, 2022. The main reason lies in the fact that, according to these respondents, the local administration has to take care of urban GIs (or because they feel that municipal taxes are already high).…”

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confidence: 70%

Citizens’ perception of the role of urban nature-based solutions and green infrastructures towards climate change in Italy

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2023

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Climate change in recent years is shaping society’s habits and life in large cities, then it will be necessary to plan and design nature-based urban solutions to meet different interests and needs. To enable this approach between cities, urban green spaces and climate change, sustainable and resilient urban growth models are needed, planned with the contribution of citizens as priority stakeholders. Citizens perceive and attribute value to Green Infrastructures (GIs), albeit in relation to different socio-economic and environmental variables, the assessment of which has only recently been addressed in specific research. This research analysed citizens’ perceptions of GIs in combating the effects of the climate change. In particular, it revealed the degree of awareness of climate change, the value attributed to GIs and, finally, the willingness to pay to contribute to the maintenance of GIs in the city. The survey was carried out in the city of Catania (Italy), through the administration of questionnaires to a sample of residents (n = 500). The results show that the citizens involved perceive GIs as strategic elements of the quality of urban life, although they are not always aware of their positive impact on climate change. Interest in the co-management of GIs was higher in the case of crowdfunding. An integrated two-step methodological scheme was applied (divided in two phases, univariate and multivariate statistical analysis), which proved effective in analysing the different needs perceived by citizens. This approach could become a useful tool for planning GIs, especially in the current context in which cities are facing challenges related to climate change and changing societal needs. Understanding citizens’ views will be strategic in directing public investments towards GIs that can improve the quality of life in the urban ecosystem.

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“…Urban green infrastructure must be regularly maintained to perform its functions after construction [30][31][32]. However, in many countries, construction and maintenance funding is insufficient, limiting wider implementation of urban green infrastructure [33].…”

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“…Sponge city construction approaches include conserving a city's original ecosystems, recovering and restoring destroyed ecosystems, and employing urban green infrastructure [39,44,45]. In 2019, all 30 pilot sponge cities completed project construction in their demonstration zones, but continuous implementation of urban green infrastructure to manage stormwater has not manifested [31,46,47]. The Chinese central government has invested a large amount of money in the construction of sponge cities but has not provided financial support for their maintenance, which may lead to the failure of urban green infrastructure achieving their functions [32].…”

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“…Some researchers have conducted surveys on WTP for urban green infrastructure in pilot sponge cities. These have shown that fees paid by the public can be a viable funding source to supplement urban green infrastructure's maintenance fees [27,31,38,46]. Meanwhile, a study reported that geographical differences, gender and other selected factors significantly influence citizens' WTP for urban green infrastructure in the cities of Zibo and Dongying [44].…”

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Citizen Willingness to Pay for the Implementation of Urban Green Infrastructure in the Pilot Sponge Cities in China

Zhang

Han

Qiao

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Urban green infrastructure has been widely used to in cities to solve stormwater problems caused by extreme weather events and urbanization around the world. However, the lack of a long-term funding mechanism for performing urban green infrastructure’s functions has limited wider implementation. Factors influencing citizen attitudes and willingness to pay for urban green infrastructure vary from city to city. This study estimated the public’s willingness to pay for urban green infrastructure, as well as compared the selected influencing factors of willingness to pay in different Chinese pilot sponge cities. The results show that 60% to 75% of all respondents in the cities were willing to support the implementation of urban green infrastructure in sponge cities, with those most willing to pay around 0–5 RMB/month (0–0.72 USD/month). The respondents’ educational level was a significant influencing factor for their willingness to pay in all six cities, but age, gender and family monthly income correlated differently with respondents’ willingness to pay in different cities. Previous knowledge of the sponge city concept and sponge city construction in the community were not significantly correlated with residents’ willingness to pay. We conclude that local governments in China need to provide more information to the general public about the multiple ecosystem services, e.g., educational and recreational benefits, that urban green infrastructure can provide. In doing so, it will help a shift to urban green infrastructure as the solution to dealing with urban stormwater problems.

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Willingness to Pay for the Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in Six Chinese Pilot Sponge Cities

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References 53 publications

Estimating the Economic Values of Restricted Monoculture Eucalyptus Plantations: A Choice Modeling Approach

Estimating the Economic Values of Restricted Monoculture Eucalyptus Plantations: A Choice Modeling Approach

Citizens’ perception of the role of urban nature-based solutions and green infrastructures towards climate change in Italy

Citizen Willingness to Pay for the Implementation of Urban Green Infrastructure in the Pilot Sponge Cities in China

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