Integrating Environmental Impact and Ecosystem Services in the Process of Land Resource Capitalization—A Case Study of Land Transfer in Fuping, Hebei

Abstract

The contradiction between human and land has always been a problem in the process of development and utilization of land resources. Under such circumstances, relevant government agencies put forward the management concept of land resource capitalization. As an effective policy to implement the conception of land resource capitalization, land transfer is of great significance to reforming rural land systems and liberating productivity in poor areas of Tai-hang Mountain in Hebei. However, how to integrate environmental impact and value evaluation of ecosystem services of land transfer in the process of resource capitalization deserves our attention. This paper takes the land transfer of Fuping, Hebei in Tai-hang Mountain as an example, combined with life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle cost assessment (LCC), and the methods of value evaluation of ecosystem services to quantify the changes of environmental loads, economic costs, and ecosystem services in the whole process and different stages of land resource capitalization. Moreover, through the sensitivity analysis of key environmental indicators, the possibility of restricting environmental costs is explored. This paper studies land transfer from the direction of the cross-discipline and provides a new idea for land resource management.

A Review of Rural Land Capitalization: Current Status and Further Research

“…The articles selected for analysis were organized in reverse chronological order, spanning 27 articles from 2023 [35][36][37][38][39], 2022 [40][41][42][43][44][45], 2021 [46][47][48][49][50], 2020 [51][52][53][54][55], and 2019 [56][57][58][59][60][61]. Among the retrieved literature, the research methods employed were categorized into quantitative and qualitative analyses.…”

“…Findings indicate that the improvement in land resource endowment has a prominent short-term effect on poverty reduction, while the enhancement of land capital endowment exhibits a relatively prolonged impact on rural poverty [40]. Additionally, when calculating land lease prices and considering the impact on economic benefits, models like the present value analysis model [41], income capitalization model, and multiple component analysis are employed [39,41,47,49,58].…”

“…To address this issue, there are calls for returning land rights to farmers, reorganizing land ownership to enhance land value, promoting the positive impact of capitalizing land development rights on land capitalization, and considering multiple benefits, especially when the remaining term of land use rights is short. This approach aims to maximize farmers' land rights and interests [45,49,52]. Moreover, different types of land use undergo varying changes in ownership during the capitalization process.…”

“…Pleasure pricing [37,38] Capitalization of income [39,49] Life cycle assessment [50,53] Empirical analysis Discrete experiments [41] Link tracking [42] Game theory [61] Qualitative analysis…”

Can the Natural Resources Capitalization Contribute to the Achievement of Carbon Neutrality? A Pilot Experiment Evidence From China

“…There has been extensive research on the accounting of water resources, forest resources, land resources and other natural resources assets (Zhang et al, 2019a;Zhu et al, 2021). For example, the mining of mineral resources plays a key role in carbon emissions growth (Wang et al, 2017), and the capitalization of land resources has brought favorable changes in environmental loads, ecosystem services and growth models in several districts and counties (Fan et al, 2020;Fan et al, 2021).…”