| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第15-16页 |
| CHAPTER1 INTRODUCTION | 第16-23页 |
| 1.1 Background of the study | 第16-21页 |
| 1.2 Objectives of the study | 第21-22页 |
| 1.3 Significance of the research | 第22-23页 |
| CHAPTER2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE | 第23-33页 |
| 2.1 Willingness to Pay for Ecosystem Services | 第23-27页 |
| 2.1.1 Valuation methods for the estimation of willingness to pay | 第24-27页 |
| 2.2 Spatial preference heterogeneity | 第27-28页 |
| 2.3 Benefit Transfer | 第28-30页 |
| 2.4 Distance Decay | 第30-33页 |
| CHAPTER3 METHODOLOGY | 第33-38页 |
| 3.1 Case study description | 第33-34页 |
| 3.2 Choice Experiment | 第34页 |
| 3.3 Econometric specification and estimation of choice model | 第34-35页 |
| 3.4 Marginal willingness to pay(MWTP)/Implicit price estimation | 第35-36页 |
| 3.5 Survey design and application | 第36-37页 |
| 3.6 Description of the selection of attributes and their levels | 第37-38页 |
| CHAPTER4 VALUATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES USING CHOICE EXPERIMENT WITH PREFERENCE HETEROGENEITY:A BENEFIT TRANSFER ANALYSIS ACROSS INLAND RIVER BASIN | 第38-59页 |
| 4.1 Introduction | 第38-40页 |
| 4.2 Methodology | 第40-47页 |
| 4.2.1 Study site | 第40-41页 |
| 4.2.2 Description of the econometric model | 第41-43页 |
| 4.2.3 Survey design and data collection | 第43-44页 |
| 4.2.4 Choice experiment | 第44-46页 |
| 4.2.5 Data screening | 第46-47页 |
| 4.3 Results and discussion | 第47-57页 |
| 4.3.1 Descriptive statistics | 第47-48页 |
| 4.3.2 Welfare estimation | 第48-50页 |
| 4.3.3 Willingness to pay(WTP)estimation | 第50-51页 |
| 4.3.4 Feasibility of value transfer between three sub-basins | 第51-57页 |
| 4.4 Concluding remarks | 第57-59页 |
| CHAPTER5 SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES:A DISTANCE DECAY APPROACH TO QUANTIFY WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN ECOSYSTEMS | 第59-82页 |
| 5.1 Introduction | 第59-61页 |
| 5.2 Methodology | 第61-69页 |
| 5.2.1 Background of the Heihe River Basin | 第61页 |
| 5.2.2 Sampling framework | 第61-63页 |
| 5.2.3 Theoretical framework and Choice Experiment | 第63-66页 |
| 5.2.5 Random Parameter Logit Model | 第66-67页 |
| 5.2.6 Location/Distance Effect | 第67-69页 |
| 5.2.7 Marginal willingness to pay/Implicit prices | 第69页 |
| 5.3 Results and discussion | 第69-72页 |
| 5.3.1 Descriptive Statistics: | 第69-72页 |
| 5.4 Welfare estimation | 第72-74页 |
| 5.5 Willingness to pay estimation | 第74-75页 |
| 5.6 Distance decay effect | 第75-78页 |
| 5.7 Effect of socio economic characteristics | 第78-80页 |
| 5.8 Concluding remarks | 第80-82页 |
| CHAPTER6 SPATIAL PRIORITIZATION OF WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES.A NOVEL NOTION OF DISTANCE FROM ORIGIN’S IMPRESSION | 第82-105页 |
| 6.1 Introduction | 第82-84页 |
| 6.2 Methodology | 第84-91页 |
| 6.2.1 Case study description | 第84页 |
| 6.2.2 Choice Experiment | 第84-85页 |
| 6.2.3 Econometric specification and estimation of choice model | 第85-86页 |
| 6.2.4 Marginal willingness to pay(MWTP)/Implicit price estimation | 第86-87页 |
| 6.2.5 Survey design and application | 第87页 |
| 6.2.6 Estimation of distance decay effect | 第87-88页 |
| 6.2.7 Description of the selection of attributes and their levels | 第88-90页 |
| 6.2.8 Individuals’characteristics | 第90-91页 |
| 6.3 Results and Discussion | 第91-103页 |
| 6.3.1 Estimation of location effect and MWTP for land attributes | 第91-94页 |
| 6.3.2 Estimation of location effect and MWTP for water attributes | 第94-97页 |
| 6.3.3 Significance of interaction of distances and MWTP for land and water attributes | 第97-99页 |
| 6.3.4 Distance decay effect(Distance from origin) | 第99-103页 |
| 6.4 Conclusion | 第103-105页 |
| CHAPTER7 CONCLUSION,RECOMMENDATIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS | 第105-109页 |
| 7.1 Summary and conclusion | 第105-107页 |
| 7.2 Limitations of the study | 第107页 |
| 7.3 Policy implications and future directions | 第107-109页 |
| References | 第109-123页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第123-125页 |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 第125-126页 |
