A Continuing Inquiry into Ecosystem Restoration: Examples from China’s Loess Plateau and Locations Worldwide and Their Emerging Implications

Liu, John D.; Hiller, Bradley

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“…Rephotography of zone II in Ansai County, Yan'an, Shaanxi Province (photography time: July 15 t h ): (a) Sizui Village, photographed in 1991 and 2000 by Yan'an City returning farmland to Forest Office; (b) Houjiagou Village (Liu & Hiller, 2016); (c) Liujiagou, photographed in 1998 by Yan'an City returning farmland to Forest Office; (d) Houjiagou, photographed in 1995 by Yan'an City returning farmland to Forest Office. Photos in 2021 were taken by Lanmin Liu.…”

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Ecological restoration success on the Loess Plateau of China: A qualitative and quantitative exploration based on rephotography

Liu,

Gao,

Chen

et al. 2024

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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Ecological restoration programs such as the “Grain for Green Project” (GFGP) have significantly reduced soil erosion and increased vegetation cover on the Loess Plateau (LP) of China over the last decades. The LP has become the paragon of ecological restoration and soil and water conservation across the world and has been highlighted by numerous reports in the literature. However, there is a lack of “seeing is believing” evidence (that is, a picture is worth a thousand words) depicting the effectiveness of the ecological restoration on the LP. Rephotography (repeat photography) was used in this study to compare historical and current photographs of the same locations to explore the landscape changes associated with ecological restoration. Twenty‐nine photo pairs between 1925 and 2021 were compiled and combined with satellite imagery and the deduced Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) between 1986 and 2021. This allowed the establishment of a rephotography library reflecting the achievements of ecological remediation and reconstruction on the LP. This in turn provides intuitive and detailed evidence for the ecological environment construction of the LP and resonates with the notion of “lucid waters and lush mountains being invaluable assets”. In addition to presenting a great opportunity to investigate landscape change over time, which is difficult to discern using other approaches, the study provides a scientific reference and a basis for government decision‐making. The potential use of rephotography for calibrating remote sensed data was also discussed. Good agreement was found between the NDVI derived from rephotography of large areas and NDVI derived from satellite imageries, which may facilitate the accurate reconstruction of time series NDVI.

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Ecological restoration success on the Loess Plateau of China: A qualitative and quantitative exploration based on rephotography

Liu,

Gao,

Chen

et al. 2024

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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“…There are calls for a 'global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy' (Amelung et al 2020) that encourages large-scale environmental rehabilitation projects. An example is the environmental rehabilitation of the Loess Plateau (LP) in China (Liu and Hiller 2015), once barren and exposed to erosion and now largely covered with vegetation.…”

Section: Earth Restoration: Biomimicry and The 'True' Wealth Of Healthy Ecosystemsmentioning

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Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector

Pellizzoni

Centemeri

2022

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Human material dependency is hardly questioned as such. However, there are different understandings of humans' connection with their biophysical milieu. In this paper we discuss four basic accounts, which differ according to whether dependency and agency are assumed to be strong or weak. Though these accounts, which we label as Cartesian, Kantian, Spinozian and Adornian, are ideal-typical, we argue they express a cognitive path dependency that can be detected in the diverse ways the transition to sustainability is pursued. To show the heuristic value of the typology we focus on agriculture, as a field of major relevance in this regard. The first three rationales, respectively underpinning industrial agriculture, ecosystem services and earth restoration programs, see material dependency as a problem to which the reply is mastering the world, though such mastery is understood differently. The fourth one, which underpins peasant agroecology, sees dependency as a constitutive -that is, unavoidable and formative -limitation, pointing to a caring, friendly attitude. We argue this outlook is crucial to a sustainability transition, and give a clue to the governance approach that may help support it.

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“…In 1994 a restoration effort began. Two Loess Plateau watershed rehabilitation projects were implemented in 48 counties across Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia (Liu and Hiller 2016). One the one hand, some observers may not consider the restoration of these 1,100 watersheds within the Loess Plateau a strict case of 'forest landscape restoration', due to the use of extensive afforestation (introduction of trees on lands not historically forested).…”

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Beyond Trees: Restoration lessons from China’s Loess Plateau

Buckingham¹

2016

China's New Sources of Economic Growth: Vol. 1

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A Continuing Inquiry into Ecosystem Restoration: Examples from China’s Loess Plateau and Locations Worldwide and Their Emerging Implications

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Ecological restoration success on the Loess Plateau of China: A qualitative and quantitative exploration based on rephotography

Ecological restoration success on the Loess Plateau of China: A qualitative and quantitative exploration based on rephotography

Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector

Beyond Trees: Restoration lessons from China’s Loess Plateau

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