How does ecological compensation promote the common prosperity of farmers in the ecological protection red line areas?
There is a high overlap between China's ecological protection red line areas and economically underdeveloped areas.In this context,how to better play the positive role of ecological compensation in transforming'lucid waters and lush mountains'into'invalu-able assets'is the key to promoting regional coordinated development and gradually achieving common prosperity and a practical ap-proach to solving the contradiction between ecological protection red line areas' protection and development.Based on 1 762 field sur-vey data from the ecological protection red line areas in Shandong Province and starting from the triple perspective of material,spiritual,and environmental factors,this study used the ordinary least squares method and the four-stage mediation effect model to empirically ex-plore the promoting effect,channel of action,and heterogeneous impact of ecological compensation on the realization of the common prosperity of local farmers on the basis of a comprehensive measurement of the common prosperity level of farmers in the ecological pro-tection red line areas.The research results showed that:① Ecological compensation could effectively promote the common prosperity of farmers in the ecological protection red line areas.After using instrumental variables,controlling the government's execution index,da-ta tail reduction,and recalculating the dependent variables,the results remained robust.② From a multi-dimensional perspective,al-though both'blood-transfusing'type ecological compensation and'blood-producing'type ecological compensation could exert a multi-dimensional effect of enriching the people,the promoting effect of'blood-producing'type ecological compensation was superior to that of'blood-transfusing'one in terms of enriching the people materially,morally,and environmentally.③ The analysis of the channels of action showed that ecological compensation mainly promoted common prosperity among farmers in the ecological protection red line ar-eas by increasing the non-agricultural employment rate of farmers,enhancing their endogenous motivation,and increasing their govern-ment trust.④ Heterogeneity testing found that the promoting effect of ecological compensation on the common prosperity of farmers in the ecological protection red line areas was more prominent in areas with lower levels of economic development,and mainly promoted the common prosperity level of the older generation of farmers.Based on the above research conclusions,in order to enhance the enrich-ing the people effect through ecological compensation,local governments should strive to achieve full coverage of ecological compensa-tion,formulate differentiated compensation standards,expand the types of ecological compensation methods,increase the supply level of'blood-producing'type compensation,pay attention to the heterogeneity characteristics of farmers and regions,and moderately im-prove the targeting of ecological compensation.
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