Herders' willingness to accept versus the public sector's willingness to pay for grassland restoration in the Xilingol League of Inner Mongolia, China

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Zhen, L ^a   Li, F ^b   Yan, H M ^a   Liu, G H ^c   Liu, J Y ^a   Zhang, H Y ^d   Du, B Z ^a,e   Wu, R Z ^a,f   Sun, C Z ^a,f   Wang, C ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b Beijing Research and Development Centre   (China)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences   (China)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

contingent valuation; ecocompensation; Inner Mongolia; willingness to accept; willingness to pay; Xilingol League

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; LOSSES; RESTORATION;

CONTINGENT VALUATIONS; ECO COMPENSATIONS; INNER MONGOLIA; WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY; XILINGOL;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CONTINGENT VALUATION; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GRASSLAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STATE ROLE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; XILINGOL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84899516175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/045003     Document Type: Article

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