The Land Conversion in the Urbanization Process of China and Ecosystem Service Value

The paper studies the changes of welfare and ecosystem service value (ESV) in urbanization process under the fact that the land is a kind of ecological capital. We develop a model to analyze the impact of the current hybrid governance structure on the welfare changes for different groups of actors and calculate the ESV changes caused by the urbanization in the Hang-Jia-Hu region (China) between 1994 and 2003. The results show that the farmers’ welfare and the net social welfare will be changed comparing to the results of Rong TAN, Futian QU (2011) and the ESV decreases; the declines of ESV can reach up to 3% of the GDP in the study region.