China's coastal wetlands: Conservation history, implementation efforts, existing issues and strategies for future improvement

Sun, Zhigao; Sun, Weibang; Tong, Chuan; Zeng, Chen; Yu, Xiang; Mou, Xiaojie

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2015.02.017

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“…The Circum-Bohai Sea area is a highly developed economic zone with a variety of Chinese industries. It is also characterized by diverse but vulnerable coastal ecosystems including wetlands, estuaries, beaches, tidal flats, lagoons, islands and marine life ( Sun et al, 2015) . However, rapid economic development has increased pollution in these coastal ecosystems.…”

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Public Attitudes on Funding Oil Pollution Cleanup in the Chinese Bohai Sea

Liu

Pan

Wang

et al. 2016

Journal of Coastal Research

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The loss in value of coastal resources due to oil spills is difficult to determine as the degraded areas are typically neither bought nor sold and have no transaction history. We used a questionnaire by Liu et al. (2009) and Choice Experiments (CEs) methodology to place values on coastal resources including coastal water, beaches, and sea birds in the Chinese Bohai Sea. Survey results showed that during spill response actions, coastal water, and beaches were of equal concern to Chinese households while sea birds were of somewhat less concern. Respondents with higher education and fewer children and those with relatively greater household income were more likely to state they were willing to pay for oil spill cleanup costs. Age of respondent was negatively correlated to willingness to pay for cleanup. We also compared valuations of coastal resources with studies conducted in North America and Europe making it possible to test the consistency of coastal resource valuation across continents.

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Public Attitudes on Funding Oil Pollution Cleanup in the Chinese Bohai Sea

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Pan

Wang

et al. 2016

Journal of Coastal Research

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“…China had approximately 5.8 million ha coastal wetlands in 2014, accounting for 10.82% of the total area of natural wetlands [109]. Over the past 60 years, China's coastal wetlands have decreased enormously due to the increasing threats and pressures on wetlands arising from the growing population and rapidly developing economy [109,110].…”

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“…Over the past 60 years, China's coastal wetlands have decreased enormously due to the increasing threats and pressures on wetlands arising from the growing population and rapidly developing economy [109,110]. "Jiangsu Coastal Reclamation Development Plan Outline" may be a signal that there are large and broad scale development projects to be launched in the Jiangsu coastal area in the future.…”

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Ecological Security and Ecosystem Services in Response to Land Use Change in the Coastal Area of Jiangsu, China

Liu

Zhu

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Urbanization, and the resulting land use/cover change, is a primary cause of the degradation of coastal wetland ecosystems. Reclamation projects are seen as a way to strike a balance between socioeconomic development and maintenance of coastal ecosystems. Our aim was to understand the ecological changes to Jiangsu's coastal wetland resulting from land use change since 1977 by using remote sensing and spatial analyses. The results indicate that: (1) The area of artificial land use expanded while natural land use was reduced, which emphasized an increase in production-orientated land uses at the expense of ecologically important wetlands; (2) It took 34 years for landscape ecological security and 39 years for ecosystem services to regain equilibrium. The coastal reclamation area would recover ecological equilibrium only after a minimum of 30 years; (3) The total ecosystem service value decreased significantly from $2.98 billion per year to $2.31 billion per year from 1977 to 2014. Food production was the only one ecosystem service function that consistently increased, mainly because of government policy; (4) The relationship between landscape ecological security and ecosystem services is complicated, mainly because of the scale effect of landscape ecology. Spatial analysis of changing gravity centers showed that landscape ecological security and ecosystem service quality became better in the north than the south over the study period.

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“…In light of the foregoing, we find the statement by Sun et al (2015) that 'the future of China's coastal wetlands looks promising since the Chinese government understands that the sustainable development in China's coastal zone requires new attitudes, sound policies and concerted efforts at all levels', to be unduly optimistic. We believe that the future of the East Asian-Australasian Shorebird Flyway is seriously threatened by loss and degradation of habitat in China.…”

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Shorebirds along the Yellow Sea coast of China face an uncertain future—a review of threats

Melville

Chen

2016

Emu - Austral Ornithology

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Abstract. Wetlands along the Yellow Sea coast of China, which are a major staging area for shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, are in a state of crisis that threatens the future of this migration system. Populations of many shorebirds in the Flyway have declined in recent decades at a time when there has been widespread loss of habitat and degradation of coastal wetlands around the Yellow Sea. Here we examine current threats to coastal wetlands along China's Yellow Sea coast based on field surveys in 2013 and 2014 and a review of the literature. Intertidal habitats have been lost to land claim or degraded through aquaculture and harvesting, as well as gross pollution and invasion of exotic Spartina, all of which have negatively affected shorebird foraging, roosting and breeding sites. Planned further development, if unchecked, will result in the loss of most of the remaining intertidal area, which is likely to result in calamitous declines in populations of many shorebirds. There is a need for immediate action to curb future land claim and to develop an integrated coastal management strategy. Further research on applied aspects of shorebird ecology is urgently needed to inform future policy development and decision making.

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China's coastal wetlands: Conservation history, implementation efforts, existing issues and strategies for future improvement

Cited by 212 publications

References 14 publications

Public Attitudes on Funding Oil Pollution Cleanup in the Chinese Bohai Sea

Public Attitudes on Funding Oil Pollution Cleanup in the Chinese Bohai Sea

Ecological Security and Ecosystem Services in Response to Land Use Change in the Coastal Area of Jiangsu, China

Shorebirds along the Yellow Sea coast of China face an uncertain future—a review of threats

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