Hosted by the Program on Chinese Cities （PCC）
03/06/2025 3:20 PM-4:20 PM EST
Presenter: Tao Xu
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Forestry Economics and Management, International Business School, Hainan University
Visiting scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Supervisor: Prof. Yan Song
Abstract:
Rural ecosystems, as typical natural-artificial composite ecosystems, are a crucial part of China’s overall ecosystem. Although the institutional framework for ecological civilization has gradually improved and a collective societal effort toward ecological protection has been forming, structural, fundamental, and long-term pressures on rural ecosystem conservation have not been fundamentally alleviated. Issues such as declining productive capacity, weakened regulatory functions, and deteriorating living environments persist, posing threats to overall ecological security and socio-economic sustainable development. This report will focus on two key aspects of rural ecological restoration: benefit evaluation and policies transmission. Specifically, (1) Quantify the non-market benefits of rural ecological restoration using Choice Experiments (CE) and Benefit Transfer (BT) methods; (2) Reveal the cognitive and behavioral response mechanisms of residents toward rural ecological restoration policies.