Residents’ perceptions of ecosystem services in an urbanizing basin: A case study in the Guanting Reservoir basin, China

Abstract

Understanding stakeholders’ differences in perceptions of ecosystem services (ES) is crucial for guiding ecological conservation and planning. However, the variations of ES perception amongst different types of residents in urbanizing areas along an urban-rural gradient are still poorly understood. Combining a questionnaire-based survey, redundancy analysis, and statistical tests, we delineated the urban-rural gradient according to local residents’ socio-economic characteristics, and investigated the differences in local residents’ perceptions of ES and potential factors affecting them in the Guanting Reservoir basin, a rapidly urbanizing basin in China. The results showed that residents living in urban-rural transitional areas attached great importance to provisioning services of providing food and domestic water, regulating services of carbon sequestration and air purification, and cultural services of providing education and training, which were 0.7%–13.1%, 0.7%–9.1% and 2.5%–21.2% higher than that of residents in other areas, respectively. Age and occupation were major factors affecting residents’ perceptions. In terms of land-use types that deliver ES, the difference in perceptions of ES delivered by grassland was the greatest amongst residents. Our results support recommendations for policymakers to take into account the stakeholders’ diverse perceptions, thus promoting residents’ sense of gain on ES.

Keywords

Ecosystem services / Stakeholder / Urban-rural gradient / Urbanization / Urban sustainability

Ethical statement

Ethical approval was not required for this study since human participants were ensured following local legislation and institutional requirements. All proceeds of this research were carried out following the Helsinki Declaration principles of human subject investigation. Participation in this survey was anonymous and voluntary, assuring consent of prospective respondents before participation. Data accumulated for this research was treated confidentially.

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Yansong Bai: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. Qingxu Huang: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. Luis Inostroza: Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. Haoran Xu: Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft. Dan Yin: Data curation, Investigation, Resources. Ziwen Liu: Data curation, Investigation, Resources. Ling Zhang: Data curation, Investigation, Resources. Fangjin Xu: Data curation, Investigation, Resources.

Declaration of competing interests

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

We express our gratitude to the anonymous reviewers and editors for their insightful and critical comments, which have improved the quality of the manuscript. Our study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42361144859), Beijing Nova Program (Grant No. 20220484163), and Beijing Normal University Tang Scholar.

Supplementary materials

Supplementary material associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:10.1016/j.geosus.2024.04.004.

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