A case study on ecological and socioeconomic benefit evaluation of Sichuan Provincial Natural Forest Protective Project
我国天然林保护工程对区域经济与生态效益的影响——以四川省峨边县和盐边县为例

Through sample technique and survey, ecological and socioeconomic data of ten years of the case site were obtained. Based on these data, effect of Natural Forest Protective Project (NFPP) on the ecological and socioeconomic benefits was evaluated. The results showed that NFPP had great effect on the ecological and socioeconomic benefit of the case site, and the stakeholders shared the costs different from the benefits they have shared. Ecological l benefits had increased from 4594.36 ten thousand Yuan in 1998 to 36746.91 ten thousand Yuan in 2001 in the sites, but the amount of employment had decreased 1852 people in Chuannan Forest Bureau, and incomes of farmers and local financial revenues had all decreased significantly in the study periods. Analysis of the trade-off between environmental benefit and socioeconomic cost was revealed that it is worthy to obtain the ecological benefit at the cost of the socioeconomic benefit, and it is also possible to achieve a win-win effect and Pareto improvement on ecology, economy and society. The imbalances of the income and cost of different stakeholders should be compensated through the forest environmental compensation and finance transfer policies. In accordance with the study results, financial transfer, forest ecological compensation, balance share of NFPP's costs and benefits and corresponding policies were presented in the paper.