Quantifying Ecological Well-Being Loss under Rural–Urban Land Conversion: A Study from Choice Experiments in China

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 12; no. 8; p. 3378
• Main Authors: Han, Manman, Song, Min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 21.04.2020
• Subjects: Agriculture; Conversion; Developing countries; Economic development; Economic growth; Ecosystems; Environmental economics; Experiments; Land use; LDCs; Rural areas; Sustainability; Theory; Urbanization; China

Rural–urban land conversion has led to the degradation of agricultural system ecological services, and therefore human ecological well-being. There is a need to transform the non-marketed value of ecosystem services provision into a monetary loss of ecological well-being in rural–urban land conversi...