Estimating the willingness to pay for green space services in Shanghai: Implications for social equity in urban China

《Estimating the willingness to pay for green space services in Shanghai: Implications for social equity in urban China》

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关键字: Social equity; Willingness to pay; Green space; Quantile regression; Club goods; Shanghai; RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY-VALUES; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GATED COMMUNITIES; HEDONIC VALUATION; PARKS; PRICE; CITIES; INEQUALITY; BALTIMORE; PROVISION

作者单位: [Xiao, Yang] Tongji Univ, Coll Architecture & Urban Planning, Int Joint Res Lab Ecol Urban Design, 1239 Siping Rd, Shanghai 200092, Peoples R China. [Lu, Yi] City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Architecture & Civil Engn, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China. [Guo, Yan] Wuhan Univ, Sch Urban Design, Dept Urban Planning, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, Peoples R China. [Yuan, Yuan] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Geog & Planning, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Urbanizat & Geosimulat, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China. Xiao, Y (reprint author), Tongji Univ, Coll Architecture & Urban Planning, Int Joint Res Lab Ecol Urban Design, 1239 Siping Rd, Shanghai 200092, Peoples R China. E-Mail: yxiao@tongji.edu.cn; yilu24@cityu.edu.hk; tiverguo@whu.edu.cn; yyuanah@163.com

摘要: The willingness to pay can be considered as the fiscal dimension of equity in a planning context. The common solution in most western countries for such fiscal inequity is to apply taxation to rebalance; however, there is no equivalent tax category in China, where residential segregation has already occurred and intensified. This paper re-examines the traditional economic aspects of urban green space in relation to size, type and proximity level, and questions whether green fiscal equity appeared in China by exploring how homebuyers in different price ranges value green space services. Specifically, this paper uses the empirical case of Shanghai, China, to test the hypothesis via the quantile hedonic approach. The results show that people at the lowest percentile level paid a higher value for accessing urban public goods than people at the higher income percentiles, and that wealthy people prefer to purchase green space services privately. These results indicate that the traditional social equity problem may not appear in the Chines context, instead urban China's problem with social quity may be more related to the privatisation of green space provision, which is only accessible to homeowners and the resulting decline of public green space developments, which primarily affects low-income renters.