Research Article

Public Preference Analysis and Social Benefits Evaluation of River Basin Ecological Restoration: Application of the Choice Experiments for the Shiyang River, China

Table 6

Compensating surplus and benefits of ecological restoration.

ItemsUpper reachesMiddle reachesLower reaches
UrbanRuralUrbanRuralUrbanRural

Compensating surplus calculation677.500600.903725.583568.438948.571505.833
Number of households (10,000 households)6.68612.06015.19917.8902.4595.560
Total benefits (10,000 yuan)4529.7657246.89311028.14110169.3472332.5372812.433