Dynamic Evolution of the Ecological Carrying Capacity of Poverty-Stricken Karst Counties Based on Ecological Footprints: A Case Study in Northwestern Guangxi, China

Shi, Shengbao; Hu, Baoqing; Yan, Yan; Li, Xiaoqing; Zhou, Kaichun; Tang, Chuanyong; Xie, Binggeng

doi:10.3390/ijerph17030991

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“…Guangxi possesses a relatively fragile natural ecological environment characterized by high mountains and steep slopes, poor soil, severe soil erosion, and frequent natural disasters [29]. In order to reduce environmental risks, Guangxi has been vigorously implementing seven key national ecological projects, including afforestation, pollution prevention, and control and comprehensive management of stone desertification.…”

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Landscape Pattern and Ecological Risk Assessment in Guangxi Based on Land Use Change

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Lan

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Due to ecological environmental fragility and soil erosion in Guangxi, studies of landscape patterns and associated ecological risks are needed to guide sustainable land development and ecologically sensitive land management. This study assesses dynamic spatial and temporal change patterns in land use and ecological risks based on 30 m land-use data, analyzes spatial correlations with ecological risks, and explores natural and socio-economic factor impacts on ecological risks. The results reveal: (1) A rapid and sizeable construction land increase in Guangxi from 2000 to 2018 associated mainly with loss of woodland and grassland. (2) Guangxi had the highest number of arable land patches from 2000 to 2018, and the distribution tended to be fragmented; moreover, the construction land gradually expanded outward from concentrated areas to form larger aggregates with increasing internal stability each year. (3) Guangxi ecological risk levels were low, low–medium, and medium, with significantly different spatial distributions observed for areas possessing different ecological risk levels. Regional ecological risk gradually decreased from the middle Guangxi regions to the surrounding areas and was positively correlated with spatial distribution. (4) Socio-economic factor impacts on ecological risk exceeded natural factor impacts. These results provide guidance toward achieving ecologically sensitive regional land-use management and ecological risk reduction and control, it can also provide a reference for ecological risk research in other similar regions in the world.

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Landscape Pattern and Ecological Risk Assessment in Guangxi Based on Land Use Change

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Lan

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“…The ef, ec, and ED in Gansu Province from 2010 to 2020 were calculated using a technique discussed in a previous work [11], where EC×0.88 was used to represent the available ec (since after deduction, 12 percent of the land designated for biodiversity protection should be set aside). As shown in The proportion of land use types in per capita EF and EC was further analyzed.…”

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Evaluation on Ecological Sustainability in Gansu Province Based on a Three-Dimensional Ecological Footprint Model

Liu

2022

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

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In this paper, we build a model based on the notion of green development that may be used to assess a three-dimensional ecological footprint. We design it by calculating two indicators, namely, footprint size and footprint depth. We perform quantitative research on ecological sustainable development. Based on our results, from 2010 to 2020, the per capita ecological footprint and ecological carrying capacity generally displayed a varying rising trend; the depth of the footprint has been maintained at 1.1364 gha/cap, and it is clear that the ecological footprint has constantly exceeded the ecological carrying capacity, which means that from 2010 to 2020, Gansu Province’s ecological and economic development was in deficit. Based on these findings, we offer sound recommendations for the ecological environment’s sustainable development in Gansu Province.

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“…The owner of exhaustible resources needs to decide to sell all their resource assets presently or wait for next years to sell to acquire better prices. The conservation of resource assets can be viable when reducing ecological footprints on commodity markets [45,46]. iii.…”

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Managing Natural Resources through Sustainable Environmental Actions: A Cross-Sectional Study of 138 Countries

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Management of natural resources is pivotal for sustained economic growth—the increasing ecological footprints causing biocapacity deficit threaten the resource conversation agenda. The study identified the potential causes and consequences of natural resource depletion in a broad cross-section of 138 countries. Ecological footprints, international migrant stocks, industrial value-added, and population growth influenced natural resource capital across countries. The results show that ecological footprints, industrial value-added, and population growth are the detrimental factors of resource capital. In contrast, continued economic growth is helpful to conserve natural resources for future generations. The rise and fall in the natural resource degradation are evident in the wake of international migrants’ stocks to support an inverted U-shaped relationship between them. The Granger causality inferences confirmed the one-way linkages, running from international migrant stocks, economic growth, and population growth to natural resource degradation. It verifies migrants-led, affluence-led, and population-led resource degradation. Ecological footprints Granger causes industrial value-added across countries. The forecasting estimates suggested that economic growth would likely to influenced greater in magnitude to resource degradation by its innovation shocks of 4.791%, followed by international migrant stocks, population growth, ecological footprints, and industrial value added by their innovation shocks of 4.709%, 1.829%, 1.247%, and 0.700%, respectively. The study concludes that international migrant stocks should manage smartly, causing more resource degradation via a channel of increasing biocapacity deficit across countries.

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Dynamic Evolution of the Ecological Carrying Capacity of Poverty-Stricken Karst Counties Based on Ecological Footprints: A Case Study in Northwestern Guangxi, China

Cited by 15 publications

References 33 publications

Landscape Pattern and Ecological Risk Assessment in Guangxi Based on Land Use Change

Landscape Pattern and Ecological Risk Assessment in Guangxi Based on Land Use Change

Evaluation on Ecological Sustainability in Gansu Province Based on a Three-Dimensional Ecological Footprint Model

Managing Natural Resources through Sustainable Environmental Actions: A Cross-Sectional Study of 138 Countries

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