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Net Horizontal Payments for Ecosystem Services: An Application in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region of China
- Source :
- Journal of Resources and Ecology. 10:63
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019.
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Abstract
- Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are one kind of important tool for environmental protection, and have been widely studied by international scholars and conservationists. Based various definitions of PES from recent articles, we have outlined four principles for PES: parity, measurability, additionality and conditionality, and then have used these principles to develop a formula to calculate a standard for PES. Finding a way to use PES to achieve a win-win relationship between economic growth and environmental protection in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region (BTHR) is a key task for Chinese government. Synergetic development of BTHR has become a national strategy, like The Belt and Road Initiative. This article employed the formula we developed to calculate the net horizontal PES amounts that each provincial government within BTHR should pay. Our findings show that Beijing should have paid 10.44×109 Yuan (0.4% of Beijing's GRP) and Tianjin 16.56×109 Yuan (0.93% of Tianjin's GRP) to Hebei in 2016.
- Subjects :
- Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Ecology
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Conditionality
010501 environmental sciences
Environmental economics
Payment
01 natural sciences
Ecosystem services
Incentive
Coase theorem
Beijing
Additionality
Business
China
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- ISSN :
- 1674764X
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Resources and Ecology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........11040c9bfaf423cc609608a1288a7463