Contribution of ecological policies to vegetation restoration: A case study from Wuqi County in Shaanxi Province, China

Zhang, Daojun; Jia, Qiqi; Xu, Xin; Yao, Shunbo; Chen, Haibin; Hou, Xianhui

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.020

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“…All the DCPs have achieved desertification control, especially in terms of the increase of vegetation coverage [15]. Scientists have also carried out research assessing the effects of these DCPs [16,17].…”

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Assessing the Effects of Desertification Control Projects from the Farmers’ Perspective: A Case Study of Yanchi County, Northern China

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Zhou

Yang

et al. 2020

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Desertification has inflicted severe damage on the natural environment and social economy for decades, particularly in the arid and semi-arid regions of northern China. In Yanchi County, a series of projects were implemented to combat desertification after 2000. To assess the effects of these Desertification Control Projects from the farmers’ perspective, we divided Yanchi County into two regions (the northern and southern regions) according to their different environmental conditions. We collected data including basic family information, farmers’ perceptions and attitudes, and farmers’ suggestions, in a questionnaire investigation following the Participatory Rural Appraisal approach. Data analysis using the Mann–Whitney U test and Fisher’s exact test revealed that the Desertification Control Projects were generally successful, as the local environment and farmers’ incomes were both improved. Farmers were all satisfied with the effects of the projects, but the farmers in the southern region had a higher acceptance of the projects than those in the northern region. In addition, three problems with the Desertification Control Projects were noted: the farmers had a low degree of participation in the projects, the farmer’s low incomes affected the sustainability of the projects, and the implementation of the complete grazing ban had several adverse effects. We provided suggestions for solving these problems. Our findings have important implications for assessing the effects of environmental conservation projects, especially from a participant’s perspective.

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Assessing the Effects of Desertification Control Projects from the Farmers’ Perspective: A Case Study of Yanchi County, Northern China

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Yang

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“…In some research of vegetation restoration, scholars also pay attention to spatial heterogeneity. For instance, Zhang et al (2018a) found that the contribution of policy to vegetation restoration is different at different locations in the study area; in different locations, the increase in vegetation coverage due to unit input is also different. Besides, it is found that the importance of water to the growth of vegetation is also different among different areas (Jing et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2017).…”

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“…However, it is an indisputable fact that in spatial statistics, the use of the GWR model can greatly increase the value of R 2 , although the independent variables used in GWR are identical to the classical global regression (Szymanowski & Kryza 2011;Zhang et al, 2018a). Why could R 2 be increased without increasing the number of independent variables when GWR is used instead of global regression?…”

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“…For instance, Wuqi County was ranked as 59 in terms of the LVRPI, but the rank of its annual growth rate was 34 in the study area. This is mainly due to the unusually strong implementation of the Sloping Land Conversion Program, as well as the county's more stringent protection of the afforested sites than many other counties (Zhang et al, 2018a(Zhang et al, , 2019a.…”

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“…In addition, due to the limitations of our knowledge and the difficulties of data acquisition, it is impossible to obtain and express all variables that may have impacts on the vegetation coverage. Nevertheless, in a finite local window, the spatial heterogeneity of the natural conditions on the vegetation growth can be greatly suppressed, and those environmental variables that are unknown or difficult to express can be approximately the same(Lloyd, 2010;Zhang et al, 2018a). Therefore, the SWSHPM, a sliding-window based model, is developed to calculate the local vegetation restoration potential index (LVRPI) instead of the VRPI, which can effectively overcome the problems existing in the global model and better construct similar habitats.…”

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A novel similar habitat potential model based on sliding‐window technique for vegetation restoration potential mapping

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Vegetation restoration potential mapping (VRPM) is of great importance for regional ecosystem restoration planning after long‐term land degradation or short‐term disasters. However, there are some problems to be solved in the current models for evaluating the potential of vegetation restoration. First, the models for VRPM are mostly established based on a knowledge‐driven index system. Although this kind of model is logically rigorous, it relies too much on expert knowledge and is relatively inefficient, especially for large‐area vegetation restoration assessments. Second, because of the spatial heterogeneity, as well as the absence of important indicators, the traditional global‐based evaluation models are difficult to adapt to the entire study area. In this study, an improved data‐driven approach, that is, a sliding‐window based similar habitat potential model, is developed for VRPM. The advantages of the new model include: (a) it is more efficient in determining the importance of each influencing factor without resorting to expert knowledge; (b) it is more locally adaptive than the global model because it performs sample training, rule building, and vegetation restoration potential calculation in each current local window. We provide a case‐study to show the modeling process and result interpretation of the new model.

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Corrosion and protection of galvanized steel in vegetation‐growing concrete in marine environment (I): Corrosion performance

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Huang

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Galvanized steel has excellent corrosion resistance in atmospheric and soil corrosive environments, because a dense and passive zinc oxide film, formed on the surface could effectively inhibit the corrosion of the Fe substrate. The galvanized steel wire has been widely embedded in vegetation‐growing concrete for reinforcement and showed good corrosion resistance and strengthening performance. However, in the marine area, the corrosion rate of galvanized steel is accelerated, and the galvanized steel wire will be failed in vegetation‐growing concrete in a short time. This study has been carried out with a view to analyze the corrosion performance and corrosion mechanism of galvanized steel wire embedded in vegetation‐growing concrete in the marine environment. EIS and Tafel curves were employed to study the corrosion performance of galvanized steel under different chloride concentrations and temperatures in vegetation‐growing concrete lixivium. Results showed that the corrosion rate of galvanized steel increased with the increase of chloride concentration and the temperature in vegetation‐growing concrete lixivium.

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Contribution of ecological policies to vegetation restoration: A case study from Wuqi County in Shaanxi Province, China

Cited by 61 publications

References 37 publications

Assessing the Effects of Desertification Control Projects from the Farmers’ Perspective: A Case Study of Yanchi County, Northern China

Assessing the Effects of Desertification Control Projects from the Farmers’ Perspective: A Case Study of Yanchi County, Northern China

A novel similar habitat potential model based on sliding‐window technique for vegetation restoration potential mapping

Corrosion and protection of galvanized steel in vegetation‐growing concrete in marine environment (I): Corrosion performance

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