Comparative analysis of payment for ecosystem services and opportunity cost in the sloping land conversion program

Huimin Guo

College of Economic and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

College of Economic and Management, Hebei North University, Zhang Jiakou, China

Wukui Wang

College of Economic and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

ABSTRACT:   At present, the compensation standard of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) becomes the core problem of establishing ecological compensation mechanism. To solve this problem, the compensation standard based on the opportunity cost is analyzed in this paper. By comparing the ecological compensation and opportunity cost for ecological restoration compensation, ...

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