Poverty reduction, environmental protection and ecosystem services: A prospective theory for sustainable development

Zhen, Nahui; Fu, Bojie; Yihe, LU; Wang, Shuai

doi:10.1007/s11769-014-0658-5

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“…More recently, research has focused on the quantitative modeling and spatially explicit mapping of ESs (Ayanu et al 2012;Martínez-Harms and Balvanera 2012;Hu et al 2014;Larondelle et al 2014;Sumarga and Hein 2014), trade-off and synergy analysis between multiple ESs (Rodríguez et al 2006;Wang and Fu 2013;Jia et al 2014;Kragt and Robertson 2014;Lu et al 2014;Zheng et al 2014), spatial flow analysis of ESs (Bagstad et al 2013(Bagstad et al , 2014Palomo et al 2013;Villamagna et al 2013;Schröter et al 2014;Serna-Chavez et al 2014), incorporation of ESs into conservation and restoration programs (Egoh et al 2007;Trabucchi et al 2012;, environmental decision-making and its implications Bateman et al 2013;von Stackelberg 2013;Zhen et al 2014), and assessing payment options to account for ESs (Derissen and Latacz-Lohmann 2013;Schomers and Matzdorf 2013).…”

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Ecosystem services in changing land use

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et al. 2015

J Soils Sediments

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Purpose Ongoing population growth and economic development place increasing demands on the supply of services produced in and by ecosystems. The resulting degradation compromises their ability to continue supporting the provision of these services. As ecosystem services (ESs) are closely related to land use changes, studies linking these topics are critical in the context of better land use planning and to ensure the sustainable provision of ESs. Results The impacts of various land uses on ESs occur in three ways: (1) Major ESs are generated under different land use practices, (2) land use patterns have a significant impact on ESs, and (3) differing intensities of land use may have different impacts on the generation of ESs. As human needs for different ESs vary and are not always consistent, maximizing the use of one ES can lead to a sharp decline in other ESs that may exceed a threshold inducing irreversible change. Therefore, trade-offs between ESs have become challenges that the ecosystem planning and management community must address. Furthermore, other problems (such as a lack of reliable data, inconsistent evaluation methods, and a lack of validated results used in assessments of ESs) compound the difficulty of this challenge. The development of comprehensive assessment models that result from an integrated assessment and scenario analysis of ESs under different land uses can inform ecosystem management options. Future perspectives and conclusions Studies of ESs under different types of land use change must enhance understanding of topics that link ecosystem processes with ESs. Recommended research includes enhancement of the management practices of soil and land, modeling and mapping the spatial flow of ESs, analyzing trade-offs and synergies between multiple ESs, and integrating and optimizing analyses of ESs. By understanding the ecological processes that drive ESs and how these are affected by land use change, we can establish a sustainable balance between multiple uses of different ESs.

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Ecosystem services in changing land use

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“…Though a flow of data indicates that poverty has nothing to do with environmental degradation (Zhen, Fu, Lu, & Wang, 2014). In the article, they have discussed the contradiction views on the relationship between poverty and environmental degradation, and then elaborated the study progress of the ecosystem, which addressed the environmental protection and poverty reduction together.…”

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Economic development through the implementation of environment policies

Wang

Islam

Hossen

2019

IJRBS

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Climate change is a reality and, it affects the lives of poor and vulnerable people in developing countries like Bangladesh. In order to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable people, it is urgent to set up a link between environmental policy implementation and poverty reduction. In this article, a natural resource management research approach is suggested. It consists of two steps (1) Identifying the extents related to environmental sustainability and, (2) The role of the areas to the income generation process. Descriptive research design is used to achieve the objectives, and for the purpose of the research primary data is collected from 201 respondents in South-West coastal zone of Bangladesh with the help of a closed-ended questionnaire. The authors analyzed the data with the help of IBM SPSS-21 and, found that environmental sustainability is one of the most important precondition for economic development at the coastal zone in Bangladesh delta. It also found that the income generation process of the local people is significantly influenced by the environmental sustainability.

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“…This also results in an increasing pressure on the remaining natural ecosystems for resources, leading to additional overexploitation and loss of biodiversity (Hartter et al, 2011). The high rate of ecosystem degradation in the region threatens the long term delivery of many ecosystem services and the sustainable development of the region (Zhen et al, 2014).…”

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Mapping ecosystem service flows with land cover scoring maps for data-scarce regions

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a b s t r a c tNatural resource management requires spatially explicit tools to assess the current state of landscapes, to analyse trends and to develop suitable management strategies and interventions. The concept of ecosystem services can help in understanding the importance of natural resources for different stakeholders and at different spatial and temporal scales. Simple methods to map ecosystem services using scoring of land cover types are particularly useful in data scarce regions, but do not reflect the dynamics of supply and demand. Within this study, GIS scripts were developed to represent and assess several different modes of ecosystem service flows between supply and demand, using ecosystem services scoring tables. By integrating the flows, the ecosystem services can be better evaluated. The outcomes do not give quantitative information on whether supply meets demand, but indicate the spatial distributions of both supply and delivery and where ecosystem services are under threat because of changes in ecosystem or flow mechanisms. The scripts allow us to identify sites that are vulnerable to ecosystem service loss and to evaluate possible management scenarios.

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Poverty reduction, environmental protection and ecosystem services: A prospective theory for sustainable development

Cited by 26 publications

References 58 publications

Ecosystem services in changing land use

Ecosystem services in changing land use

Economic development through the implementation of environment policies

Mapping ecosystem service flows with land cover scoring maps for data-scarce regions

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