Organically Linking Green Development and Ecological Environment Protection in Poyang Lake, China Using a Social-Ecological System (SES) Framework

Abstract

Wetlands are unique ecosystems formed by the interaction between land and water on Earth. Poyang Lake, which is a part of China’s largest freshwater lake wetland, is well known for its ecological and economic importance. This study uses a social-ecological system (SES) framework that integrates watershed and human activities; we used action scenarios to analyse the influencing factors, solutions, and feedback mechanisms involved in the SES framework. We chose Nanchang, Jiujiang, and Shangrao in the Poyang Lake wetlands of the Jiangxi province as the study areas to provide a problem-oriented analytical strategy for the organic interface between ecological conservation and green development. The key issues indicate that the Poyang Lake region faces multiple problems, such as ecosystem structural changes and environmental pollution, caused by anthropological activities, inefficient implementation of conservation policies, and insufficient funding for pollution prevention and control. Our findings provide a systematic solution for major conservation and development issues in the Poyang Lake region and are adapted to the characteristics of the lake. We also provide a theoretical reference and direction for the implementation of green development and modernisation of ecological governance in the Great Lakes basin in China.

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“…Therefore, the government's environmental subjective administrative responsibility depends on the government staff's subjective consciousness of environmental responsibility, and the government's environmental subjective administrative responsibility is a subjective feeling, conscious recognition, and active practice of the government administrator. The subjective environmental administrative responsibility of the government is gradually produced in the process of human socialization, and is an indispensable part of the process of human environmental protection [ 17 ]. In the process of carrying out the environmental administrative responsibility, the government cannot lack the subjective administrative responsibility of the government.…”

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“…There is a large amount of concentrated continuous cropland around, and urban development and construction threaten the surrounding ecological and production space. In addition, the reduction of ecological space area and landscape fragmentation are partly attributed to the anthropogenic enclosure of lakes, uncontrolled sand mining, and farming [67], in which some lake resources are converted into cropland resources to promote agricultural development while excessive enclosure often damages the lake natural resources and destroys lake environments and storage functions [68].…”

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“…With the rapid development of China's economy after the 1980s, the intensification of urbanization lead to the transformation of large distributed forests and paddy fields into a variety of land-use types with small patches [26,57]. After 2015, China began to implement new environmental protection policies such as "Beautiful Countryside Construction" and "Rural Tourism" [46,47]. As a result, the area of green land began to increase, resulting in a decreasing trend of NP, PD, ED, LSI and SHDI.…”

“…At the same time, the small adjacent green patches were combined into the large one [14,44]. Since 2015, the strict implementation of environmental protection policies resulted in that green space rarely continue to be fragmented caused by urban construction in China [46,47]. On the contrary, human-induced vegetation restoration transformed and combined shrub land, sparse woodland, and other woodland into forest land.…”