Impacts of Land Change on Ecosystem Services in the San Antonio River Basin, Texas, from 1984 to 2010

Yi, Hoonchong; Güneralp, Burak; Filippi, Anthony M.; Kreuter, Urs P.; Güneralp, İnci

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.11.019

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“…The benefit transfer method (BTM) is one of the most frequently used secondary valuation techniques that adjusts previously recognized estimates from a novel (primary) valuation scholarship in one geographical area to other locations having related socio-ecological attributes [36,37]. The study of Costanza et al [9] is a pioneering work in the BTM that undertakes a per-hectare monetary valuation of different LULC types that possess 16 biomes and provide 17 different ESs.…”

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Future Impact of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on Ecosystem Services in the Lower Meghna River Estuary, Bangladesh

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Assessing the effects of different land use scenarios on subsequent changes in ecosystem service has great implications for sustainable land management. Here, we designed four land use/land cover (LULC) scenarios, such as business-as-usual development (BAUD), economic development priority (EDP), ecological protection priority (EPP), and afforestation development priority (ADP), through a Cellular Automata-Markov (CA-Markov) model, and their effects on ecosystem service values (ESVs) were predicted, using historical LULC maps and ESV coefficients of the Lower Meghna River Estuary, Bangladesh. Findings revealed that agricultural and mangrove forest lands experienced the greatest decreases, while rural and urban settlement land had the greatest increases, leading to a total ESV decrease of US$105.34 million during 1988-2018. The scenario analysis indicated that ESV in 2038 would also decrease by US$41.37 million and US$16.38 million under the BAUD and EDP scenarios, respectively, while ESV will increase by US$60.61 million and US$130.95 million under the EPP and ADP scenarios, respectively. However, all the future land use scenarios will lead to 1.65%, 10.21%, 7.58%, and 6.75% gaps in total food requirements, respectively. Hence, from the perspective of maximizing ESVs and minimizing the trade-offs in food gaps, the ADP scenario could be the optimal land management policy for the studied landscape.

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“…The ESV calculation has become a popular topic in global sustainable development ecological economic and environmental issues [30,31]. Costanza et al (1997) proposed the basic guidance and valuation methods [20].…”

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“…Undoubtedly, LULC change is the most important reason for the variation of ecological service value. ESV is substantially reduced because of the massive transition of cultivated land and woodland and wetland to construction land, while the ecological function of the former land use type is completely lost, thereby leading to far-reaching consequences of environmental problems [29][30][31].…”

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Combined Impact of Socioeconomic Forces and Policy Implications: Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of the Ecosystem Services Value in Yangtze River Delta, China

Chen

Zhang

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Water can carry or overturn a boat. Natural resources form the foundation of human survival and development. However, land use change caused by human urban civilization has damaged the natural environment and in turn threatened the continuation of human civilization. Accordingly, it is crucial to analyze the impacts of human activities on land use change and consequent dynamics of ecosystem service value (ESV). For the sustainable development of human beings, an investigation should be conducted to explore what type of land use behavior will be considerably beneficial to improve our relationship with the natural environment. This study analyzes the spatial–temporal dynamics of ESV of 148 counties in the Yangtze River Delta in China over three five-year periods (2000–2015) and examines the influence of socioeconomic forces and policy implications. Exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial regression were applied to facilitate the analysis. Results show that the averages of the ESV change ratios of the 148 counties in each of the aforementioned periods are −0.667%, −2.690%, and −4.668%, respectively. The number of counties that showed an ESV loss trend in the three periods are 72 (48.6%), 125 (84.4%), and 139 (93.9%), respectively. In terms of spatial pattern, ESV change demonstrates the spatial distribution characteristic of “high loss spreading from the northeast to the middle and west” with a tendency to strengthen spatial agglomeration. Results of the spatial regression analysis determine the overwhelming importance of population growth and economic advancement. The results also indicate that the development mode characterized by industrial structure, capital input, and technology upgrades can exert considerable influence on socioeconomic development, thereby affecting the change of ESV. Moreover, the constraints of policy substantially affect the changes of ESV from 2010 to 2015. Policy makers should consider the relationship between land use patterns and the ESV variation in different development stages to formulate appropriate measures, thereby reducing or preventing the loss of ecological service value and promoting sustainable development.

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“…Although some scholars have tried to estimate the impact of land-use change on residents' well-being (especially farmers) or social equity [15,23,24], the loss of well-being caused by rural-urban land conversion is often expressed in economic dimension, falling short in capturing ecological dimension. A few pieces of research have called for constructing ecological compensation for human well-being loss based on the non-market value and externality theory [25,26], while empirical evidence for quantifying the loss of residents' well-being loss needs to be explored to clarify the negative impacts of rural-urban land conversion.Human well-being is a multi-dimensional concept that reflects the extent to which individuals satisfy with their life generally and with different aspects of their life [27,28]. According to the definition given by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), human well-being is a human experience that includes the sense of security, basic materials for a good life, freedom of choice and action, health, and good social relations [29].…”

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Quantifying Ecological Well-Being Loss under Rural–Urban Land Conversion: A Study from Choice Experiments in China

Han

Min

2020

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Rural-urban land conversion has led to the degradation of agricultural system ecological services, and therefore human ecological well-being. There is a need to transform the non-marketed value of ecosystem services provision into a monetary loss of ecological well-being in rural-urban land conversion, which could serve as a basis for ecological compensation. In this paper, a choice experiment method is adopted to investigate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) of rural and urban residents in six cities of three provinces selected from different regions in China. The results reveal that the attributes reflecting the ecological well-being of rural and urban residents are experiencing different degrees of decline. Two attributes, health and security, show the most obvious decline among all ecological well-being attributes for urban residents. In view of stakeholders, rural residents are facing a greater decline in ecological well-being than urban residents, which is mainly driven by their different linkages and interactions with the agro-ecosystem. In terms of regional comparisons, residents in the central region (Hubei Province) of China are subject to the sharpest decline in ecological well-being, followed by those living in the western region (Guizhou Province) and the eastern region (Guangdong Province). These differences are basically determined by their land resource conditions and socioeconomic circumstances. This paper argues that it is pressing to establish an ecological compensation mechanism to regulate rural-urban land conversion and maintain human ecological well-being.Sustainability 2020, 12, 3378 2 of 17 to provide various ES to human beings is gradually diminished, with the potential to further reduce human well-being [1,[9][10][11].Globally, it is one of the major challenges for policy-makers to keep a trade-off between economic development and agro-ecosystem protection. In most developing countries, especially in southern Africa and Asia, rapid urbanization and increasing human population are driving massive land transformation [12][13][14]. With the largest population and relatively scarce land resources, China has witnessed a significant growth in urbanization [15,16]. In recent years, ecological risks caused by rural-urban land conversion have attracted growing attention. The Central Government of the Communist Party of China (CPC) put forward the strategy of ecological civilization to reconcile the relationship between human and nature, taking "optimization of the spatial layout", "effective regulation of development scale", and "improvement of the ecology system" as main guidelines of future development mode. It is increasingly presenting not only as a response to eco-environment degradation in China but as a vision for our global future [17].Researchers have been sharing growing concerns about the impacts of rural-urban land conversion on agricultural ES and their impacts on human well-being. Several studies have adopted physical assessment methods [18][19][20] to uncover the relations between agri...

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Impacts of Land Change on Ecosystem Services in the San Antonio River Basin, Texas, from 1984 to 2010

Cited by 105 publications

References 31 publications

Future Impact of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on Ecosystem Services in the Lower Meghna River Estuary, Bangladesh

Future Impact of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on Ecosystem Services in the Lower Meghna River Estuary, Bangladesh

Combined Impact of Socioeconomic Forces and Policy Implications: Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of the Ecosystem Services Value in Yangtze River Delta, China

Quantifying Ecological Well-Being Loss under Rural–Urban Land Conversion: A Study from Choice Experiments in China

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