Ecological civilization: perspectives from landscape ecology and landscape sustainability science

Frazier, Amy E.; Bryan, Brett A.; Buyantuev, Alexander; Chen, Liding; Echeverría, Cristián; Jia, Peng; Liu, Lumeng; Li, Qin; Ouyang, Zhiyun; Wu, Jianguo; Wei, Xiang; Yang, Jun; Yang, Lihua; Zhao, Shuqing

doi:10.1007/s10980-019-00772-4

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“…Many large‐scale restoration initiatives include opportunities to employ landscape restoration approaches. Landscape restoration involves practices based on the principles of both landscape ecology and landscape sustainability science (LSS; Frazier et al ), in which a “landscape” is seen as a social–ecological system. LSS focuses on improving the dynamic relationship between ecosystem services and human wellbeing in changing social, economic, and environmental conditions.…”

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International principles and standards for the practice of ecological restoration. Second edition

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Restoration Ecology

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Section: Section 4—leading Practicesmentioning

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International principles and standards for the practice of ecological restoration. Second edition

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Restoration Ecology

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“…In 2007, Premier Hu Jintao announced that China would become an "Ecological Civilization" (Shengtai Wenming 生态文明) (Yeh and Coggins 2014;Geall and Ely 2018;Goron 2018;Frazier et al 2019). In 2012, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) adopted Ecological Civilization as an explicit goal in its national constitution and in its Thirteenth Five-Year Plan (2016-2020).…”

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Sacred Watersheds and the Fate of the Village Body Politic in Tibetan and Han Communities Under China’s Ecological Civilization

Coggins

2019

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The “spirit” in spiritual ecology is an active political force deserving sustained scholarly analysis and public recognition. This article reports on 15 years of field research on “animate landscapes,” associated with gods and spirits in Tibetan communities, and “vital landscapes” associated with fengshui in Han Villages. Despite a century of dramatic sociopolitical change across rural areas in the People’s Republic of China, many villages maintain significant geo-phenomenological connections between body, mind, and land, comprising a body politic maintained through ritual cycles and dwelling practices that uphold the sanctity and integrity of vital watersheds. Comparative analysis of Han and Tibetan spiritual ecologies reveals that cosmological landscapes comprise the armature of relational ontologies grounding and informing everyday life, livelihood, and power relations. As dynamic, emergent, and flexible systems of socio-ecological adaptation that both shape and are shaped by regional and transnational media, they play significant roles in policy initiatives associated with Ecological Civilization and hold potential for broadening the horizons of Anthropocene scholarship, socio-ecological activism, and meaningful settlement in a profoundly unsettled world.

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“…China’s goal of ecological civilization is a human-centered, comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development mode for the social–economic–natural complex system, providing a possible multi-win approach to sustainable development. The Chinese government has proposed a series of policies and themes for ecological civilization, for example, “mountains, rivers, forests, land and lakes form a community of shared life,” “we should do our utmost to conserve the ecosystem,” and “a good ecological environment will benefit people most.” These policies illustrate that the important issues pertaining to ecological civilization are closely related to the interactions between the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and anthroposphere, that is, the research scope of physical geography (Frazier et al, 2019).…”

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Linking spatial differentiation with sustainability management: Academic contributions and research directions of physical geography in China

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Dong

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Physical geography focuses on the Earth surface system and is dedicated to revealing how people affect the environment and how the environment reacts to people. Based on its characteristic spatial cognitive perspective, the inductive–deductive combined approach, and the comprehensive research paradigm that integrates multiple elements, processes, and scales, physical geography always provides an important scientific basis for understanding human–nature interactions and solving sustainable development issues in different eras. Putting theory into practice, physical geography plays a pivotal role in realizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals and China’s goal of ecological civilization. At present, China is in a stage of rapid socio-economic development and global conditions are changing more quickly than ever. Based on its disciplinary characteristics and traditional advantages, physical geography in China should always develop around social needs and play an increasing role in resource- and environment-related policies and outreach. Future development of physical geography as a discipline in China is expected, taking spatial cognition as the basic perspective and human–nature interaction as the core content, along with the combination of deductive and inductive approaches and the strengthening of interregional integration, all under the goal of sustainability. Considering the shared environmental challenges and the complexity of interconnections between countries in the context of globalization, the academic exploration and practice of physical geography in China have been providing scientific support for the sustainable development of China and beyond.

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Ecological civilization: perspectives from landscape ecology and landscape sustainability science

Cited by 84 publications

References 34 publications

International principles and standards for the practice of ecological restoration. Second edition

International principles and standards for the practice of ecological restoration. Second edition

Sacred Watersheds and the Fate of the Village Body Politic in Tibetan and Han Communities Under China’s Ecological Civilization

Linking spatial differentiation with sustainability management: Academic contributions and research directions of physical geography in China

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