Willingness to Pay for Environmental Losses: A Contingent Valuation Analysis of Pastoral Area within Coal Mining in Ejin Horo Banner, Ordos
- DOI
- 10.2991/iceess-19.2019.36How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- coal mining, contingent valuation, ecological compensation, grassland pollution
- Abstract
In grassland areas subject to pollution caused by coal mining such as the Ejin Horo Banner in Inner Mongolia, a reasonable compensation scenario for local herders should be considered. Willingness to Pay (WTP) was assessed with the use of contingent valuation (CV) methodology to estimate the value for environmental losses. The results indicated that: 1. The local environmental problem included dust, noise, water pollution and mine subsidence. 2. 77.61% of herders were extremely not satisfied with the compensation and 56.52% of herders disagreed mining in grassland. 3. The WTP has been estimated at 556.55 yuan annually per household. The total WTP in the coal mining area of Ejin Horo was estimated to be between 16337786.4 yuan and 48426292.7 yuan.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Qun Zhang AU - Hengxu Liu PY - 2019/10 DA - 2019/10 TI - Willingness to Pay for Environmental Losses: A Contingent Valuation Analysis of Pastoral Area within Coal Mining in Ejin Horo Banner, Ordos BT - Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Social Science (ICEESS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 136 EP - 139 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceess-19.2019.36 DO - 10.2991/iceess-19.2019.36 ID - Zhang2019/10 ER -