Integrating Ecosystem Services and Human Demand for a New Ecosystem Management Approach: A Case Study from the Giant Panda World Heritage Site

Fu, Bin; Xu, Peng; Wang, Yukuan; Guo, Yingman

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“…Ecological function zoning is an essential part of ecosystem management. Its purpose is to conduct targeted protection according to the provision of ecological services, which can fundamentally curb the degradation of the ecological environment, maintain ecosystem balance, improve ecosystem services and improve the supply capacity of ecological products [ 100 , 101 , 102 ].…”

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A Review of Ecological Assets and Ecological Products Supply: Implications for the Karst Rocky Desertification Control

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Wang

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Ecological assets refer to natural resource assets that can provide ecological products and services for human beings. Researching ecological assets and the supply of ecological products contributes to the sustainable development of natural–social–economic complex systems. This study conducts a literature search and statistical analysis based on the Web of Science, CNKI and Foreign Journal Resource Service System of Guizhou Normal University Library literature databases. We review 117 publications on the studies of ecological assets and ecological products supply. Based on summarizing the landmark results, the key scientific issues that need to be solved are proposed, and their implications for karst rocky desertification control are discussed. The results show that: (1) the number of publications each year from 2001 to 2020 shows a fluctuating growth trend. (2) The research concentrates on four dimensions: theoretical, evaluation, mechanism, and strategies research. Among them, evaluation research is the focus and hotspot of the research. (3) It is necessary to expand the research on the definition and distinction of ecological assets, services and products; the evaluation system of ecological products; the supply mechanism of ecological products from the perspective of resource endowment and the research of ecosystem coherence at different scales. (4) The karst rocky desertification control should focus on ecological assets’ management to promote the supply capacity of ecological products, pay attention to the quality assessment of ecological assets, explore the influencing mechanism of ecological assets and its optimization and promotion paths and strengthen the research on village ecosystems under karst rocky desertification control.

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A Review of Ecological Assets and Ecological Products Supply: Implications for the Karst Rocky Desertification Control

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Wang

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“…The goal of environmental management is the sustainable utilization of ecosystems to meet human demand [ 82 ]. Numerous studies have explored regional management based on the biophysical or economic values of ESs; however, these studies have paid less attention to the regional differences in the effects of driving forces on ESs.…”

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“…In the Mountains around Sichuan Basin, managers should be concerned about the potential threat of local sloping farmland. The implementation of soil erosion control measures (e.g., protection of the topsoil layer, application of organic fertilizer and renovation of sloping farmland) and forest conservation projects (e.g., returning farmland to forest, natural forest protection measures, prohibition of timber harvesting) should be coordinated to enhance the resistance of local ecosystems to water erosion [ 82 ]. In the Low Mountains and Hills, local managers should be aware of the negative effects of urbanization and the importance of reasonable urban planning.…”

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Integrating the effects of driving forces on ecosystem services into ecological management: A case study from Sichuan Province, China

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Driving forces are the factors that lead to the observed changes in the quantity and quality of ecosystem services (ESs). The relationship between driving forces and ESs involves considerable scale-related information. Place-based ecological management requires this information to support local sustainable development. Despite the importance of scale in ES research, most studies have only examined the association between ESs and their drivers at a single level, and few studies have examined this relationship at various scales or analyzed spatial heterogeneity. The purpose of this paper is to explore the significance of the scale-dependent effects of drivers on ESs for localized ecological management. The biophysical values of ESs were calculated using several ecological simulation models. The effects of driving forces on ESs were explored using the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model. Variations in the effects of driving forces on ESs were examined at three scales: provincial, ecoregional, and subecoregional scales. Finally, canonical correlation analysis was used to identify the major environmental factors associated with these variations in each ecoregion. Our results show that (1) the distribution of soil conservation and water yield is highly heterogeneous; (2) four driving forces have significant positive and negative impacts on soil conservation and water yield, and their effects on the two services vary spatially (p < 0.05); (3) the impacts of drivers on ESs vary across different spatial scales, with a corresponding shift in the related environmental factors; and (4) in the study area, at the provincial scale, physical, topographical, and biophysical factors were key factors associated with the variations in the relationship between ESs and drivers, and at the ecoregional and subecoregional scales, physical, socioeconomic, topographical, and biophysical factors all contributed to these changes. Our results suggest that significant differences in topographical conditions (e.g., altitude, slope) can be incorporated for exploring the relationship between drivers and ESs and optimizing ecological management at the provincial scale, whereas significant differences in physical and socioeconomic conditions (e.g., urbanization levels, human activity, vegetation coverage) are more meaningful for localized ecological management at the ecoregional and subecological scales. These findings provide a basis for understanding the relationship between drivers and ESs at multiple scales as well as guidelines for improving localized ecological management and achieving sustainable development.

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“…2016; Fu et al . 2019). The concept of ecosystem services needs to build on a strong foundation of economics that extends far beyond simply putting a price tag on nature.…”

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“…The concept of ecosystem services has now been broadly embraced by governments that see payment for ecosystem services as a tool for stimulating development in rural parts of the country (Bai et al 2016;Fu et al 2019). The concept of ecosystem services needs to build on a strong foundation of economics that extends far beyond simply putting a price tag on nature.…”

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Today's protected areas: supporting a more sustainable future for humanity

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2020

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Nature provides significant benefits to people, especially those living in and around protected areas. Ecosystem services from protected areas include producing wild food, supporting biodiversity and water cycles, regulating climate, and providing cultural services like better health, tourism, and legacy for future generations. In economic terms, the flows of ecosystem services provided by protected areas are worth hundreds of billions of dollars each year, well justifying the costs of managing these sites, but protected areas are suffering from environmental problems such as impacts from human population growth, rural poverty, growing demands for natural resources, land use change that degrades ecosystem productivity, invasive non-native species that harm natural ecosystems, and climate change that is affecting all ecosystems. Addressing these linked challenges will require mobilizing all parts of the economy, including the protected area estate. For example, protected areas can take a leadership role in rural development, expand the conservation estate to half of the planet through connectivity and improved management of more of the non-agricultural land, enhance the prominent role of protected areas in contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation, encourage productive research on applying modern technology to protected areas management, seek broader private sector participation in conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services, and include protected areas as relevant parties in relevant trade and other international negotiations. When protected area managers embrace this broader role, they will find enthusiastic public support for this contribution to a sustainable human society.

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Integrating Ecosystem Services and Human Demand for a New Ecosystem Management Approach: A Case Study from the Giant Panda World Heritage Site

Cited by 15 publications

References 43 publications

A Review of Ecological Assets and Ecological Products Supply: Implications for the Karst Rocky Desertification Control

A Review of Ecological Assets and Ecological Products Supply: Implications for the Karst Rocky Desertification Control

Integrating the effects of driving forces on ecosystem services into ecological management: A case study from Sichuan Province, China

Today's protected areas: supporting a more sustainable future for humanity

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