Residents’ knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and willingness to pay for non-point source pollution control: a study of Nansihu Lake Watershed, China
Year: 2008
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In the past 15 years, China's GDP has consistently increased by 8% -10% every year, which greatly boosted China's economy.At the same time, China suffers from a host of environmental problems which have worsened over the past three decades of economic reform.Non-point source pollution in freshwater has become a striking issue around the country.Motivating residents to actively participate in controlling non-point source pollution through integrative watershed management, is a main goal for the implementation of 11 th Five-Year Plan (FYP, 2006(FYP, -2010) ) of China.The objectives of the research were to explore the knowledge and perceptions of the residents about non-point source pollution and community-based watershed management policies within Nansihu Lake watershed of China, their attitudes toward non-point source pollution control and watershed management, the amount of their willing to pay for water quality improvement, the differences among different groups of the residents regarding their knowledge, perceptions, attitudes towards non-point source pollution and watershed management policies, and their willingness to pay for improving water quality, and finally, the socio-economic factors affecting the residents' willingness to pay.Better understanding of their knowledge and attitudes toward the watershed First and foremost, I wish to thank Dr. Heimlich, my adviser, for his unwavering support and encouragement, for his patience, and for giving me a solid base in theory and research methods in this program, and I wish to especially thank him for the personal and academic advice he gave me through the whole process of my study at Ohio State University.
Author: Jianjun Hao
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W646995593