Study On Regional Ecological Compensation Mechanism

Ecological compensation has become an important and effective measure coordinating economic development and ecological protection. At present, researches on the ecological compensation are still at the initial stage, and the regional ecological compensation researches are relatively weak. Much researches are needed to further improve the regional ecological compensation mechanism to promote regional coordinated development.In accordance with the theoretical framework of ecological compensation, the compensation subject, compensation standard and compensation mode are the three key aspects, but also the difficulties in regional ecological compensation practice, composing the core of region ecological compensation mechanism. To establish the regional eco-compensation mechanism, and build institutional environment to ensure the effective operation, rational organization and improve the regional compensation mode, there will be new problems and difficulties in these three aspects. How to clear the regional compensation responsibility, determine the amount of compensation, by what means to achieve the appropriate compensation, these difficulties puts forward new requirements on the regional development.As public goods or public services, the ecological environment has significant cross-regional characteristics. From maintaining resource environmental sustainability in all regions, each region need to follow the basic environmental requirements, maintain a certain degree of localized environmental features (ie basic ecological goods output), with the surplus of regional resources and environmental functions are as special products and services in exchange. When there is ecological deficit in one region,it can obtain balance from the ecological maintenance of other areas. In the specific practice, the benefits regions of regional ecosystem services often belong to different administrative divisions and financial levels. Therefore, it is much more complex to coordinate and handle the regional ecological compensation in fact.Researches of ecological footprint, through accounting the supply and demand of resources and environment in regional economic development, can reflect the regional ecological security, lay a foundation for practice to reduce the ecological footprint, and improve the safety level of the region, but also through the calculation of ecological footprint and ecological surplus/deficit analysis, provide a theoretical basis for regional eco-compensation based on the imbalance of resource-products and ecological services.In this paper, based on the theory and method of ecological footprint, adopting the research method of combinning therotical analysis and empirical exploration, quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis, from the macro level, determination of ecological compensation judgement standard, establishment of the quantitative model and calculation for ecological compensation are mentioned to study the quantification of regional ecological compensation, provide the basis for the ecological compensation; relevant recommendations are also proposed to establish and improve regional ecological compensation mechanism, regional ecological compensation fund, liability of parallel region, diverse region ecological compensation mode, promoting regional coordinated development.