The willingness to pay for ecosystem services on the Tibetan Plateau of China

摘要: Abstract Ecosystem Services (ES) are common-pool resources that can be valued by people's willingness to pay (WTP). In contrast place-based WTP research at the community-level, stakeholders tend geographically diverse, and benefits not spatially apparent on national level. Aiming find geographical diversity of for ES large scale, this study implemented an online survey more than 25,000 samples detect Chinese people water conservation, soil retention, carbon fixation, pollution decomposition, biodiversity aesthetic existence Tibetan Plateau. The results showed top limit payments was 1,080.95 CNY/year/capita average, would like 172.40 which is highest among six ES. percent “Aged 16–35”, “Government agency staff” “Know WTP” influenced provincial On individual level, knowledge attitudes directly drove payment amounts, as well their ecosystem management decisions. Consequently, exists in China, objective social structure spatial accessibility ES, were main driving forces diversity. These findings suggest a bottom-up adaptive governance approach encouraged managing common pool developing countries.