Stakeholders'''' Consumption of Ecosystem Services and Willingness to Accept: A Case Study in Jinghe Watershed
社区对生态系统服务的消费和受偿意愿研究——以泾河流域为例

Economic development and eco-environmental restoration are the major objectives of China's western development program.This paper selected an important watershed-Jinghe watershed of western China as the study site.Knowledge of the households' consumption of ecosystem services and Willingness to Accept(WTA) has been obtained via questionnaire survey in two villages in Guyuan city,the upper stream of the watershed.Statistical methods,with the assistance of SPSS, were used to analyze the factors influencing households' consumption of ecosystem services and WTA.The results indicate that local households own a very limited disposable income leading to an unreasonable food consumption pattern and an unhealthy ratio of nutrients intake.It is concluded that households' consumption on eco-products is relevant to the size of households,and land area of food crops and arable land area converted into forest and grassland,and livestock numbers.Households' WTA is relevant to converted land area,income level of household and number of sheep reared.The implementation of land conversion policy can indirectly influence households' consumption on natural resources and WTA by changing plantation patterns,livestock numbers and income level.Settled at the water source area of Jinghe watershed,local people give up the priority to utilize the water resource,instead,they protect the water resources for the down stream users and economic development,but they had not received corresponding compensation from relatively developed regions down streams.Based on the theory of Contingent Valuation Method(CVM),this paper evaluated the households' economic loss from water resource protection.In order to balance the benefits of regions along the watershed,recommendations on building effective compensation mechanism were brought forward.