Evaluation of sustainability in northern Xinjiang based on ecological footprint-planetary boundary system framework

Yue, Zhiyang; Liu, Hongbin; Xu, Zhonglin; Wang, Yao

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110270

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“…In this study, BC grew slowly, but EF grew exceptionally rapidly in Xinjiang, consistent with JIN and Yue's findings [41,58]. The mean ecological deficit per capita in Xinjiang during the study period was 16.61 s-nha/cap, which is closer to the mean ecological deficit per capita of 16.172 gha/cap in Xinjiang from 2009 to 2020 calculated by GUAN et al [40].…”

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“…The average annual precipitation is 10.02 mm-588.93 mm [40]. With the development of large-scale and high-intensity industrialization and urbanization in the region in recent years, the consumption rate of natural capital in Xinjiang has exceeded the speed of ecosystem renewal and regeneration [41]. Coordinating the development of ecological construction and economic growth is still arduous.…”

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“…Similar to the global hectare, the sub-national hectare (s-nha) represents the average productivity of a province's land. Compared with the global hectare and the national hectare (nha), the sub-national hectare can more accurately reflect the land productivity of specific regions [41]. Therefore, local biological production data in Xinjiang were selected to determine s-nha values in this study.…”

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Study on the Ecological Compensation Standard in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China under the Perspective of Natural Capital Supply and Demand

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The fundamental component of the ecological compensation system, as well as the crucial basis for its efficient functioning, is calculating the ecological compensation amount and establishing the ecological compensation standard. This study integrates the ecological footprint with natural capital monetization and other methods by introducing a natural capital accounting system. From the standpoint of natural capital supply and demand, it also builds an accounting framework for ecological compensation standards that is standardized, dynamic, and regionally differentiated while taking local socioeconomic aspects into account. We determined the amount of ecological compensation by using Xinjiang as the research object and calculating and analyzing the features of regional and temporal changes in the monetary and physical quantities of natural capital in Xinjiang from 2010 to 2020. The findings show that from 2010 to 2020, Xinjiang’s ecological footprint increased by 1.26 times in physical terms and 1.21 times in monetary terms and that its ecological carrying capacity increased by 4.13% in physical terms and 9.42% in monetary terms. The ecological deficit continues to grow in physical and monetary terms, with a per capita ecological deficit in 2020 of 19.92 s-nha/cap and 70,100 CNY/cap in physical and monetary terms, respectively. The amount of ecological compensation required to be paid in Xinjiang increased from CNY 5659 million to CNY 10,259 million, and the per capita ecological compensation payment standard increased from 259.42 CNY/cap/yr to 396.11 CNY/cap/yr. In summary, Xinjiang’s natural capital supply is insufficient to meet the demand for consumption, and the ecological deficit is growing with time, necessitating the payment of ecological compensation. The study’s results lay the foundation for formulating and implementing ecological compensation policies in Xinjiang and provide theoretical support for constructing ecological civilization in Xinjiang. In addition, the ecological compensation accounting framework constructed in this study organically integrates natural capital theory, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic influencing factors, which enriches the methodology of accounting for ecological compensation standards, and, at the same time, can be used as a paradigm of a dynamic and equitable ecological compensation accounting framework to further promote its use at different scales and regions.

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“…Xinjiang is covered by extensive deserts, including the Gurbantunggut Desert in Junggar Basin and the Taklamakan Desert, the largest desert in China, in Tarim Basin (Figure 1b). The arid climate makes water resources the primary limiting factor for the ecological construction and sustainable economic development in Xinjiang (Guo, Li, et al, 2015;Yue et al, 2023). In the past two decades, water resources in Xinjiang have been deficient, making it one of the provinces in China with a relatively tight water supply-demand relationship (Li, Liu, et al, 2016;Wu et al, 2022).…”

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“…Since there are still gaps in agricultural and ecological water use in various sub-Earth's Future 10.1029/2023EF004058 basins of Xinjiang, implementing inter-basin water transfer from external regions is also a powerful measure to alleviate water supply-demand imbalances (Han & Jia, 2022). For example, the well-known "Diversion from Irtysh to Urumqi" project diverts abundant water resources from the Irtysh River Basin to Urumqi on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, alleviating water scarcity of urban cluster in the Tianshan northern slope (Yue et al, 2023).…”

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A Refined Supply‐Demand Framework to Quantify Variability in Ecosystem Services Related to Surface Water in Support of Sustainable Development Goals

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As water‐related ecosystem services (WRES) encounter unprecedented threats with climate change and human activities, it is important to understand the impact of variations in the supply and demand for WRES on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Previous studies commonly overlooked water quality and water‐use sectors when using comprehensive supply‐demand index (SDIcom), defined as the difference between water supply and demand, leading to challenges in applying WRES estimation to SDGs assessment. We constructed a refined supply‐demand framework for WRES, categorizing the water supply by water quality and the water demand by sectors. It allows the calculation of refined supply‐demand index (SDIref), addressing the limitations of SDIcom. Our findings demonstrate that SDIref could be effectively employed to assess SDGs and rectify the overestimation of SDIcom in the case study in Xinjiang. The supply‐demand relationship of water resources indicates surpluses in domestic and industrial water use and deficits in agricultural and ecological water use, with the latter worsening. SDIref is projected to be higher in the scenario with SSP2‐4.5 and high growth rate of irrigation efficiency. Our study suggested informed decisions based on SDG‐specific targets to either maintain or enhance SDG progress scores. The proposed refined supply‐demand framework of WRES established a quantitative link between WRES and human well‐being, providing applicable insights for other ecosystem service assessments in other regions.

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Evaluation of sustainability in northern Xinjiang based on ecological footprint-planetary boundary system framework

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Study on the Ecological Compensation Standard in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China under the Perspective of Natural Capital Supply and Demand

Study on the Ecological Compensation Standard in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China under the Perspective of Natural Capital Supply and Demand

A Refined Supply‐Demand Framework to Quantify Variability in Ecosystem Services Related to Surface Water in Support of Sustainable Development Goals

Vegetation coverage precisely extracting and driving factors analysis in drylands

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