A Study on Ecological Forest Compensation from the Perspectives of Different Shareholders: Taking Sanming City in Fujian Province as an Example

The policy of ecological forest compensation is closely related to multiple stakeholders. A good knowledge of these different stakeholders爷behavior and attitude to the policy can provide an important basis to improve the policy. Taking Sanming City as the investigation site, stressing the multiple stakeholders'attitude to ecological forest compensation, and using the method of participatory investigation, this research carried out semi-structured interviews, key person interviews and questionnaire surveys among different stakeholders, such as the forestry administrations of the provincial and county levels, and forest farmers. It is found that different stakeholders have different demands for ecological forest compensation policy. Nevertheless they all think that the lower standard of compensation funds, the single source of the fund, as well as the deficiency of supervision on management and protection works are key problems of ecological forest compensation policy. To maximize the utility of ecological forest compensation funds, we should build diversified ways of compensation, quantize the criterion for evaluation, and refine the forms of management and protection.