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Original Articles

Status quo and mechanism suggestions on eco-compensation of three water sources in Kunming

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Pages 715-725 | Received 01 Dec 2015, Published online: 23 Aug 2017
 

Abstract

Through questionnaire and symposium, this paper had surveyed current situation of local PES of Songhuaba, Yunlong, and Qingshuihai water source regions, and induced major influential factors of PES mechanism by causal analysis graph method. According to information of basic features, cognition discrepancy and environmental protection awareness of participants, this paper get a general picture of lower income and education background, and insufficient popularity of local policy, which has a large effects on residents’ activeness in participating ecological protection activities and will increase difficulties in promoting their environmental protection awareness. Addition to that, problems such as morbidity of regulations and laws, lacking of smooth in department coordination, single mode of compensation, difficulties in measuring eco-values, and lacking effective management system have hindered local PES mechanism from sufficient implementation. Based on the analysis above, this paper promotes five mechanism suggestions: strengthen organizing and coordinating capacity, broaden funding channels, increase protection intensity, attach importance to protection propaganda and education, and conduct performance appraisal.

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