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Realizing Benefit Sharing through Reasonable Land Compensation in the Sustainable Development of Water Resources: Two Case Studies in China

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  • Haibing Sun

    (Research Centre for Reservoir Resettlement, China Three Gorge University, Yichang 443002, China
    School of Economics and Management, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China)

  • Xuan Li

    (School of Economics and Management, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China)

  • Yuefang Duan

    (Research Centre for Reservoir Resettlement, China Three Gorge University, Yichang 443002, China
    School of Economics and Management, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China)

  • Ningjing Zhang

    (School of Economics and Management, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China)

Abstract

The existence of benefit distribution unfairness may lead to problems such as resettlement conflicts, which have become the bottleneck of sustainable development of water resources in many countries. Exploring and establishing equitable benefit sharing systems are the resolving approach, but there is still the lack of quantitative analysis tools for benefit distribution. From the perspective of benefit sharing, this study designs specific quantitative methods to determine land compensation prices that migrants deserve and makes a case analysis of two projects in China. Results suggest the following: (1) Fair compensation calculated by the input dividend method is the product of the proportion of agricultural land investment and the net income of the project, while the value summation method takes the sum of the agricultural land value, social security value and average value-added distribution as the compensation price. (2) The cases demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methods. (3) Current policy compensation is lower than the calculated compensation, and there are insufficient migrants participating in benefit sharing in China. By referring to the estimated value of the two methods, governments or development enterprises can reasonably improve the compensation standard or provide additional follow-up support to increase the welfare of migrants, which is expected to achieve a relatively balanced allocation of benefits and realize a win-win situation.

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  • Haibing Sun & Xuan Li & Yuefang Duan & Ningjing Zhang, 2023. "Realizing Benefit Sharing through Reasonable Land Compensation in the Sustainable Development of Water Resources: Two Case Studies in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(10), pages 1-16, May.
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