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Assessment of ecological compensation information ethics in China: A case study of the Huainan city mining area in China

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In addition to the “hard” rules of institutions and their implementation mechanism, the “soft” guidance of ethics is indispensable for achieving ecological compensation. Moreover, this “soft” guidance favors self-discipline regarding practical intervention and is also beneficial to the avoidance of “negative externalities”. In this paper, indicators of ecological compensation information ethics are introduced and hypotheses are presented and verified statistically using data on the Huainan city mining area (China). An analysis of the case study results showed that even though each indicator is significantly correlated with the overall satisfaction, the hypothesis regarding the relationship between the indicators “satisfaction with access to convenience” and “maturity of information revenue” was abnormal after regression model optimization. Furthermore, the relative importance of eight indicators in the optimal model was clarified, and the strength of the resistance of 10 indicators in the resistance diagnosis model was also observed. Therefore, this study highlighted the control of key protons and focuses on the accurate identification of resistance indicators. Additionally, it also showed that the avoidance of “negative externalities” results in effective ecological compensation, and favors its improvement.

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This work was supported by the following programs: the National Natural Science Foundation of China with the title ‘evaluation of coal miners' safety behavioral ability and its dynamic pre-warning under the interaction between individuals and environment’ (No. 51574010).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Mining Response and Disaster Prevention and Control in Deep Coal Mines, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, 232001, People’s Republic of China

    He Gang & Qinfeng Xing

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The paper are wrote by first author He Gang and Corresponding author Qinfeng Xing. The Authors acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the article who does not meet the criteria for authorship including anyone who provided professional writing services or materials. The paper obtains the permission to acknowledge from all those mentioned in the acknowledgements section.

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Gang, H., Xing, Q. Assessment of ecological compensation information ethics in China: A case study of the Huainan city mining area in China. GeoJournal 86, 2297–2304 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10190-8

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