Public Preference Analysis and Social Benefits Evaluation of River Basin Ecological Restoration: Application of the Choice Experiments for the Shiyang River, China
Table 3
Variable descriptive statistics.
Variable
Upper reach
Middle reach
Lower reach
Urban
Rural
Urban
Rural
Urban
Rural
Upper reach ecological water allocation
3.676 (3.301)
3.518 (3.337)
3.643 (3.353)
3.439 (3.339)
3.728 (3.362)
2.974 (3.244)
Middle reach ecological water allocation
16.760 (16.339)
17.143 (16.817)
18.530 (16.605)
20.760 (16.716)
16.570 (16.745)
15.156 (16.424)
Lower reach ecological water allocation
26.822 (25.234)
25.462 (25.132)
27.008 (24.343)
23.302 (24.187)
33.301 (24.669)
27.770 (25.759)
Hongyashan Reservoir water quality
3.433 (0.496)
3.398 (0.490)
3.367 (0.483)
3.447 (0.498)
3.437 (0.497)
3.434 (0.496)
WTP
132.087 (99.050)
130.252 (102.747)
133.465 (97.412)
126.841 (97.976)
145.955 (105.181)
116.787 (100.150)
Note: (a) Unit of ecological water allocation is million m3; (b) class IV water quality is equal to 4, class III water quality is equal to 3; (c) the unit for WTP is the yuan; (d) data are the mean (standard deviation).
