Wetland recreational agriculture: Balancing wetland conservation and agro-development

Yu, Xiaofei; Mingju, E; Sun, Mingyang; Xue, Zhenshan; Lü, Xianguo; Jiang, Ming

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2018.05.015

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“…Therefore, this region needs to rationally allocate water resources and cultivated land distribution to achieve sustainability of water resources as well as agricultural activities. Additionally, planting trees between cultivated land, coculture systems including rice-fish, rice-crab, marsh-fish, and marsh-crab, organic farming, as well as winter-flooding of paddy, can be implemented in the SSP to increase ES [74][75][76][77].…”

Section: Management Of Ecosystem Services For Future Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecosystem Service Loss in Response to Agricultural Expansion in the Small Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China: Process, Driver and Management

Chen

Yan

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Converting natural ecosystems to cultivated land, driven by human activities, has been considered a significant driver of limiting the delivery of ecosystem services (ES). The ES loss in the past was mainly caused by agricultural activities that have been taken to meet people’s needs in Northeast China. Quantifying historical declining ecosystem service values is essential to facilitate sustainable development. In this study, remote sensing images were used to investigate the history of cultivated land expansion over the last five decades. Additionally, ES variations caused by agricultural expansion since 1965 were quantified in the Small Sanjiang Plain (SSP), Northeast China. From the results, cultivated land expanded from 3.97% of the total SSP area to 66.40% from 1965 to 2015 (approximately 898.23 million ha), of which paddy field expanded drastically from 0% to 55.93%. Variations in cultivated land resulted in a loss of ecosystem service values by 11,893.85 million dollars, of which 62.98 million dollars were caused by the internal conversion between cultivation during 1965–2015. Agricultural expansion accelerated the export of agricultural products function, while it decreased almost all other functions, especially hydrological regulation and freshwater supply function. For future sustainability of the SSP, some suggestions, such as restoring natural ecosystems, planting trees between cultivated land, coculture systems, and winter-flooding of paddy rice were provided in our study.

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Section: Management Of Ecosystem Services For Future Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecosystem Service Loss in Response to Agricultural Expansion in the Small Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China: Process, Driver and Management

Chen

Yan

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Sustainability

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“…Humans have directly utilized peatlands for thousands of years (Renou-Wilson 2018; Koglo et al 2019), leading to differing and varying degrees of impact (Tooth 2018;Strack et al 2018). Some peatlands worldwide have been used in agriculture (Yu et al 2018), for grazing (Noble et al 2018) and for growing crops (Kandel et al 2013). Large areas of tropical peatlands have in recent years been cleared and drained (Rival 2018; Schoneveld et al 2018).…”

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An exploration of gender equity in household: A case from a peatland-based community in Riau, Indonesia

Herawati

Rohadi

Rahmat³

et al. 2019

Biodiversitas

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Abstract. Herawati T, Rohadi D, Rahmat M, Winarno B. 2019. An exploration of gender equity in household: A case from a peatland-based community in Riau, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 20: 853-861. Gender roles in peatland-based communities’ livelihoods are an important factor in livelihood vulnerability due to challenging characteristics for conducting agriculture in this area. This article reports on a study of gender roles in Riau Province in 7 villages in 3 districts, aiming to identify significant attributes that determining gender equity at the household level. The data was collected through structured interviews in 221 households, in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions in every village. The research indicated that gender roles in agricultural activities are significantly dominated by men, while women play a more significant role in domestic activities. Both men and women contribute equally in the social life of the community; women’s participation and group membership is equal to men’s. Poor families tend to have higher gender equity in agricultural activities than rich households. The role of women in wealthier households is not in their physical contribution on the land but is mostly transformed into a decision making role. This indicates that women have a significant role in family livelihoods for both poor and rich families, but in different forms.

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“…The introduction of aquatic economic plants, such as lotus seed, can be carried out to increase biodiversity and economic benefits [79][80][81]. Fish and crab can be raised in wetland areas to increase economic income and biodiversity [82,83]. Reeds can be used to raise crabs and achieve a reed-crab compound ecosystem.…”

Section: Wetland Conservation and Restorationmentioning

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Large-Scale Marsh Loss Reconstructed from Satellite Data in the Small Sanjiang Plain since 1965: Process, Pattern and Driving Force

Yan

2020

Sensors

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Monitoring wetland dynamics and related land-use changes over long-time periods is essential to understanding wetland evolution and supporting knowledge-based conservation policies. Combining multi-source remote sensing images, this study identifies the dynamics of marshes, a core part of wetlands, in the Small Sanjiang Plain (SSP), from 1965 to 2015. The influence of human activities on marsh patterns is estimated quantitatively by the trajectory analysis method. The results indicate that the marsh area decreased drastically by 53.17% of the total SSP area during the study period, which covered the last five decades. The marsh mostly transformed to paddy field and dry farmland in the SSP from 1965 to 2015, indicating that agricultural encroachment was the dominant contributor to marsh degradation in the area. Analysis of the landscape indexes indicates that marsh fragmentation was aggravated during the past five decades in the SSP. Trajectory analysis also indicated that human activities have acted as the primary driving force of marsh changes in the SSP since 1965. This study provides scientific information to better understand the evolution of the wetland and to implement ecological conservation and sustainable management of the wetlands in the future.

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Wetland recreational agriculture: Balancing wetland conservation and agro-development

Cited by 39 publications

References 22 publications

Ecosystem Service Loss in Response to Agricultural Expansion in the Small Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China: Process, Driver and Management

Ecosystem Service Loss in Response to Agricultural Expansion in the Small Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China: Process, Driver and Management

An exploration of gender equity in household: A case from a peatland-based community in Riau, Indonesia

Large-Scale Marsh Loss Reconstructed from Satellite Data in the Small Sanjiang Plain since 1965: Process, Pattern and Driving Force

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