Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Quantitative standard of eco-compensation for the water source area in the middle route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project in China

  • Research Article
  • Published:
Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The Middle Route Project(MRP) of the South-to-North Water Transfer Scheme (SNWT) in China will require a very large financial expenditure to ensure the water supply and the associated water quality to northern China. An eco-compensation mechanism between the water service source areas and its beneficiaries is essential. This paper establishes an analytic framework of ecocompensation standard for the protection of the water source area, including both the calculation of ecocompensation based on opportunity cost method (OCM) and calculation of the burden sharing of eco-compensation between the water source area and the external water reception area based on the deviation square method (DSM). Taking Shiyan City, Hubei Province in China as a case study, our results show that the eco-compensation in the first-phase of MRP for the water source area in Shiyan, Hubei Province should be 1.63×1010 CNY, about four times of planned eco-construction investment budget (4.33×109 CNY). In addition, the burden sharing of eco-compensation varied greatly in terms of different methods. It would be better to integrate the results of different single-factor burden sharing methods by determining the corresponding weighting coefficient with DSM and form one unanimous consent result by the interested parties.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Yung E C. An ecological perspective on the valuation of ecosystem services. Biological Conservation, 2004, 120(4): 549–565

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Jorgensen B S, Wilson M A, Heberlein T A. Fairness in the contingent valuation of environmental public goods: attitude toward paying for environmental improvements at two levels of scope. Ecological Economics, 2001, 36(1): 133–148

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Loomis J, Kent P, Strange L, Fausch K, Covich A. Measuring the total economic value of restoring ecosystem services in an impaired river basin: results from a contingent valuation survey. Ecological Economics, 2000, 33(1): 103–117

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. O’Ryan R. Cost-effective polices to improve urban air quality in Santiago Chile. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1996, 31(3): 302–313

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Stoneham G, Chaudhri V, Ha A, Strappazzon L. Auctions for conservation contracts: an empirical examination of Victoria’s BushTender trial. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003, 47(4): 477–500

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Cason T, Gangadharan L, Duke C. A laboratory study of auctions for reducing non-point source pollution. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2003, 46(3): 446–471

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Ferraro Paul J. Asymmetric information and contract design for payments for environmental services. Ecological Economics, 2008, 65(4): 810–821

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Roland B A G, Leon M H. Broadening the picture: Negotiating payment schemes for water-related environmental services in the Netherlands. Ecological Economics, 2009, 68(11): 2760–2767

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Bishop R C, Heberlein T A. Measuring values of extra-market goods: Are indirect methods biased? American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1981, 66(3): 926–930

    Google Scholar 

  10. Henrik S. Economic valuation of the environment: how citizens make sense of contingent valuation questions. Land Economics, 2003, 79(1): 122–135

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Li X G, Miao H, Zheng G H, Ouyang Z Y. Main methods for setting ecological compensation standard and their application. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2009, 29(8): 4431–4440 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  12. Stefano P. Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica. Ecological Economics, 2008, 65(4): 712–724

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Theo D, Paul F, Marjorie H, Douglas S, Shyam U, Sven W. payments for watershed services regional syntheses. 2007, http://www.oired.vt.edu/sanremcrsp/documents/PES.Sourcebook.Oct.2007/PESbrief7.Regional%20Synth.pdf

  14. Ruan B Q, Xu F R, Zhang C L. Review of research and practice of river basin ecological compensation. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2008, 39(10): 1220–1225 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  15. Liu Y L, Xu F R, Zhang C L, Ruan B Q, Luo Y Z. Model for river basin ecological compensation. China Water Resources, 2006, 22: 36–38 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  16. Liu X H, Yu X J. Research on standardization of compensation for trans-regional water pollution based on protection of water eco-system in river valley — an empirical analysis of Tai Lake basin. Ecological Economics, 2007, (8): 129–135 (in Chinese)

  17. Zhang C L. The compensation mechanism to restore water resources. Beijing: China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, 2003, 80–92 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Cai B C, Lu G F, Song L J, Li J, Liu Z. The ecological compensation standardization for ecological restoration: a case study of ecological restoration in the water resource protection zone for Eastern South-to-North Water Transfer Project. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2008, 28(5): 2413–2416 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  19. CAO G H. Jiang D L. Ecological Compensation Solution to transboundary pollution. Ecological Economics, 2009, 11: 160–164 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  20. Zheng H X, Zhang L B. Research on the standardization of compensation for the service of ecological system in river valley. Environmental Protection, 2006, (A):42–46 (in Chinese)

  21. XU D W, Hu M G, Zheng H X. Measuring method of river basin ecological compensation based on river water quality and its water quantity about across administration area. China Population Resources and Environment, 2008, 18(4):189–194 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  22. Wang F E, Xu X Y, Fang Z F, Yu J. Quantification of water pollution eco-compensation in Qiantang River watershed based on COD flux. Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin, 2009, 18(3): 259–263 (in Chinese)

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  23. Zhang Q L, Dang Z L. Report on ecological restoration in the Shanxi water resource protection zone for Eastern South-to-North Water Transfer Project. 2008 (in Chinese)

  24. Macmillan D C, Harley D, Morrison R. Cost-effectiveness analysis of woodland ecosystem restoration. Ecological Economics, 1998, 27(3): 313–324 (in Chinese)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. Ram K S, Janaki R R A. Valuing environmental benefits of silvopasture practice: a case study of the Lake Okeechobee watershed in Florida. Ecological Economics, 2004, 49(3): 349–359

    Article  Google Scholar 

  26. Pattanayak S K. Valuing watershed services: concepts and empirics from Southeast Asia. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 2004, 104(1): 171–184

    Article  Google Scholar 

  27. Zhao M H, Xu C G, Huang Q, Tian F W, Xue X J. Application of differential square method for sharing compensation benefits between cascade hydropower stations and for sharing costs between multipurpose water projects. Journal of Hydroelectric Engineering, 2004, 6(23): 1–4 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  28. Yang Y Z, Chui Y, Shi A N. Research of investment share in Xiaolangdi Key Control Project. Journal of Hohai University, 1999, 27(4): 45–49 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  29. Shi S J, Li H E, Lin Q C, Dang Z L. Study on method for calculating eco-compensation fund sharing in inter-basin water transfer projects. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2009, 40(3): 268–273 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  30. Robert C, Ralph D, Rudolf D G, Stephen F, Monica G, Bruce H, Karin L, Shahid N, Robert V O, Jose P, Robert G R, Paul S, Marjan V D B. The value of the world’s Ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature, 1997, 387(6630): 253–260

    Article  Google Scholar 

  31. Xie G D, Lu C X, Leng Y F, Zheng D, Li S C. Ecological assets valuation of Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Nature Resource, 2003, 18(2): 189–195 (in Chinese)

    Google Scholar 

  32. Khan H. Poverty, environment and economic growth: exploring the links among three complex issues with specific focus on the Pakistan’s case. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2008, 10(6): 913–929

    Article  Google Scholar 

  33. Manzoor E C, Sarwar U A. Poverty-environment nexus: an investigation of linkage using survey data. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 2010, 9(1): 91–113

    Article  Google Scholar 

  34. John K. Watershed development, environmental services, and poverty alleviation in India. World Development, 2002, 30(8): 1387–1400

    Article  Google Scholar 

  35. Liu J G, Diamond J. China’s environment in a globalizing world. Nature, 2005, 435(7046): 1179–1186

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  36. Stefano P, Agustin A, Gunars P. Can payments for environmental services help reduce poverty? An exploration of the issues and the evidence to date from Latin America. World Development, 2005, 33(2): 237–253

    Article  Google Scholar 

  37. Stefanie E, Stefano P, Sven W. Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues. Ecological Economics, 2008, 65(4): 663–674

    Article  Google Scholar 

  38. Li W H. Seeking for the building of the mechanism of ecological compensation in China-An interview with Li Wenhua, the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Environment and Progress, 2006, 19: 4–8 (in Chinese)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Zhanfeng Dong

  2. Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, Beijing, 100012, China

    Zhanfeng Dong & Jinnan Wang

Authors
  1. Zhanfeng Dong
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jinnan Wang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Jinnan Wang.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Dong, Z., Wang, J. Quantitative standard of eco-compensation for the water source area in the middle route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project in China. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. China 5, 459–473 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-010-0288-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-010-0288-9

Keywords

Search

Navigation