Quantitative assessment of eco-compensation standard from the perspective of ecosystem services: A case study of Erhai in China

Zhong, Shengyi; Geng, Yong; Huang, Binbin; Zhu, Qinghua; Cui, Xiaowei; Wu, Fei

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121530

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“…After decades of development since the 1970s (Brown and Lant, 1999 ), ecological compensation is widely accepted as an effective method to protect ecosystems (May et al 2017 ). In China, the ‘eco-compensation’—a mechanism aiming to maintain or improve the status of ecosystems by employing economic means to adjust stakeholders’ interests (Shang et al 2018 ) has become an important national policy concept to help coordinate regional development relationships, balance development opportunities and ecological protection (Ouyang and Jin, 2017 ; Zhong et al 2020 ). Although the integrated river basin governance perspective helps alleviate trade-offs (Jiang et al 2021 ), establishing and effective implementation of sustainable cross-regional and trans-provincial eco-compensation schemes for the LRB is quite challenging.…”

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Ecosystem services and disservices in the Luanhe River Basin in China under past, current and future land uses: implications for the sustainable development goals

Barrett

Renaud

2022

Sustain Sci

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Understanding how ecosystem services (ES) and ecosystem disservices (EDS) are affected by human-induced landscape changes is important to minimise trade-offs and maximise synergies between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets, and for equitable development across governance scales. However, limited research investigates how ES and EDS can change under past, current, and future land uses. This study, conducted in the Luanhe River Basin (LRB), demonstrates the interaction between humans and the environment under past, current, and future land uses at the river basin scale in China, using a stakeholders’ participatory capacity matrix to characterise both ES and EDS. Results indicate that forests and water bodies provided the highest overall ES capacity, while the lowest scores were reached in built-up and unused land areas. Built-up land and cropland provided the highest overall EDS, while the lowest EDS scores were for water bodies. By applying the ecosystem services potential index (ESPI) and ecosystem disservices potential index (EDSPI), we found that the ESPI of all the ES declined from 1980 to 2018 and would continue to decline until 2030 without sustainable and conservation development strategies in the LRB. The EDSPI under all future scenarios in 2030 was projected to increase compared to the baseline in 1980. This study recommends establishing and implementing sustainable environmental protection policies and cross-regional and trans-provincial eco-compensation schemes for minimising trade-offs in ES. The study proposes an integrated research framework that could be useful for understanding the effect of historical and future human–environment interactions on ES and EDS, and SDGs achievement.

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Ecosystem services and disservices in the Luanhe River Basin in China under past, current and future land uses: implications for the sustainable development goals

Barrett

Renaud

2022

Sustain Sci

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“…Especially in 2011 and 2012, the growth rate of ecological spillover nearly doubled due to the combined effect of increased water pollution and reduced precipitation ( Figure 6). By analyzing the change in water-ecosystem service value in the Erhai Lake Basin from 2000 to 2015, Zhong [20] concluded that the emdollar change of regulation services (including climate regulation, water purification, and water retention) should be regarded as the ecological compensation standard. In his research, Saraswat [63] found that payments for ecosystem services should consider the effects of climate change and extreme weather conditions.…”

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“…Water yield by forests in the upper reaches of the Miyun Reservoir, China, was evaluated using the InVEST model, water services were evaluated using economic methods and eco-compensation standards for the downstream areas were determined by analyzing the spatial flow of these ecosystem services [19]. Emergy analysis has been used to evaluate ecosystem services from 2000 to 2015 across the Erhai Lake Basin, China, determining eco-compensation based on the annual variation of ecosystem-service values [20]. These methods are important for determining eco-compensation but have both advantages and disadvantages [21].…”

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Emergy Analysis and Ecological Spillover as Tools to Quantify Ecological Compensation in Xuchang City, Qingyi River Basin, China

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As an effective means to coordinate cost–benefit allocation of ecological protection between upstream and downstream cities, ecological compensation is often used to improve collaborative basin-wide freshwater resources management. Yet, due to the complex relationships between upstream and downstream ecosystem services, calculating eco-compensation is not an easy task. We used ecological spillover (the amount of local ecosystem services not used in the region and thus flows to downstream areas) and emergy analysis to determine the amount of eco-compensation that the city of Xuchang should pay to the upstream city of Xinzheng (Qingyi River Basin, China) from 2010 to 2014. Eco-compensation was determined by deducting the emergy of the local, self-supplied ecosystem services of Xuchang City, calculated using an ecological-water-footprint-based analysis, from the emergy of the total ecosystem services used in Xuchang, and monetized accordingly. The results showed that the self-supplied ecosystem services decreased from 2010 to 2014 and, thus, Xuchang relied more on the ecological spillover services flowing from Xinzheng. As a result, eco-compensation increased from 990 million Chinese Yuan (¥) in 2010 to ¥509 billion in 2014, mostly due to increased demands for water purification and reduced precipitation around Xuchang. This method can be further enhanced by introducing larger datasets and can be replicated elsewhere to accurately determine ecological compensation, ensuring basin-wide collaboration towards the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

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“…Currently, eco-compensation mechanisms are used as an effective policy tool, emphasizing incentives as a means of internalizing negative environmental externalities (Zhong et al, 2020).…”

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“…Sheng et al, 2017;H. Yu et al, 2020;Zhong et al, 2020). However, with continuous innovation in ecological research methodology, shortcomings have been gradually exposed in some methods originating in environmental economics.…”

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Knowledge structure of emergy theory in the field of eco‐compensation research: A grounded theory approach

Tan

Feng

2022

Natural Resources Forum

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Although emergy theory has made progress in the field of eco‐compensation research, there is still a lack of review articles, summarizing the existing knowledge structure in this area of study. Accordingly, the objective of this paper is to provide a reference for researchers by characterizing the current status of emergy theory in the field of eco‐compensation and to establish the internal logic structure among existing studies, based upon a qualitative analysis of textual data. Inspired by the grounded theory, twelve concepts within five categories of emergy theory were extracted by open, axial, and selective coding of relevant literature. Concepts were extracted from the texts and categories were determined according to the inherent logical relationships among those concepts. The “knowledge structure model of emergy theory in the field of eco‐compensation” was constructed and the following five principal categories were identified: “emergy indicators system,” the “integration of methods and theories,” “research subjects,” “calculation of compensation standards,” and “research concerns.” Moreover, core and supporting genera were also identified from these five axial codes. Finally, the research focuses and hotspots were explored according to the theoretical frameworks as indicated by the core and supporting genera. The findings of this paper provide a reference for researchers to further promote innovation in the application of emergy theory in the field of eco‐compensation.

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Quantitative assessment of eco-compensation standard from the perspective of ecosystem services: A case study of Erhai in China

Cited by 34 publications

References 23 publications

Ecosystem services and disservices in the Luanhe River Basin in China under past, current and future land uses: implications for the sustainable development goals

Ecosystem services and disservices in the Luanhe River Basin in China under past, current and future land uses: implications for the sustainable development goals

Emergy Analysis and Ecological Spillover as Tools to Quantify Ecological Compensation in Xuchang City, Qingyi River Basin, China

Knowledge structure of emergy theory in the field of eco‐compensation research: A grounded theory approach

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