Exploring sustainability and decoupling effects of natural capital utilization in China: Evidence from a provincial three-dimensional ecological footprint

Wu, Feng; Yang, Xiaohua; Shen, Zhenyao; Bian, Dehui; Babuna, Pius

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126486

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“…Markandya et al (2006) and Thompson and Jeffords (2017) confirmed the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve in the field of resources and the environment by analysing the relationship between the economic states of different development stages and resources and the environment under different theoretical frameworks. Wu et al (2021) utilized the modified three‐dimensional ecological footprint model, sustainability reclassification method and decoupling index to study the sustainability and decoupling effect of natural capital use in 30 provinces of China from 2000 to 2016. Zhang, Sun, and Yang (2021) suggest that the essence of decoupling is to achieve economic growth and reduce environmental pollution.…”

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Decoupling analysis of water consumption and economic development of arid and semiarid regions in Northwest China

Shi

Chiu

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Natural Resources Forum

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Decoupling analysis of water consumption and economic development of arid and semiarid regions in Northwest China

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Natural Resources Forum

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“…The theoretical research on China's ecological footprint such as Galli, pointed out that China's ecological footprint has been increasing in recent years and has exceeded the world's average biocapacity [11]. This demand growth has exceeded the regeneration and absorption capacity of natural resources and led to unsustainability, such as high carbon emissions, land degradation and deforestation [12][13][14]. According to the Global Footprint Network [15] (Figure 1), during 1961-2017, China's ecological footprint increased from 635 billion gha to 5353 billion gha (when the calculation of ecological footprint is not based on a specific location, but based on the total average productivity around the world, the area unit is defined as "global hectare" (gha) [16]).…”

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“…Sustainability 2022, 13, x FOR PEER REVIEW 2 of 2 and led to unsustainability, such as high carbon emissions, land degradation and defor estation [12][13][14]. According to the Global Footprint Network [15] (Figure 1), during 1961 2017, China's ecological footprint increased from 635 billion gha to 5353 billion gha (when the calculation of ecological footprint is not based on a specific location, but based on th total average productivity around the world, the area unit is defined as "global hectare (gha) [16]).…”

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Construction and Application of the Evaluation System of Natural Resources Asset Accountability Audit of Officials: A Case Study of Jiangxi, China

Xiong

2022

Sustainability

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At the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee first proposed the establishment of the Natural Resources Asset Accountability Audit of Officials, which not only marked a new stage in China’s ecological construction, but also triggered many scholars’ discussion on the accountability audit evaluation indicator system of natural resources assets. In this paper, the combination of entropy weight method and TOPSIS method is introduced into the natural resource asset accountability audit evaluation system for the first time, and a system based on energy subsystem, economy subsystem and environment subsystem is constructed. The system is used to evaluate the performance of leading officials of Jiangxi Province, one of the first batch of national pilot zones for ecological conservation in China, in the responsibility of natural resource asset management from 2015 to 2019. The evaluation result indicates that the overall situation of natural resource assets in Jiangxi Province shows a steady upward trend, and the overall performance should be affirmed. The practical application of this evaluation system in the national pilot zone for ecological conservation will enlighten other provinces in China to improve the leading officials’ accountability audit of natural resource assets.

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“…(Chiritescu et al, 2013;Yang J. et al, 2019;Ouyang et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020;Shmelev and Brook, 2021;Yang et al, 2021;Wang S. et al, 2022;Wang S. H. et al, 2022). As a key concept to measure sustainable development, natural capital has gradually attracted the attention of scholars (Fang, 2015;Yang and Hu, 2018;Fisher et al, 2021;Wu et al, 2021). Natural capital, refers to the stock of natural resources and environmental assets that can provide useful products or services in the present or the future, including cultivated land, forest, water, wetland and other ecosystems, ecological diversity and ecosystem services (Daly Herman, 1996;Costanza et al, 1997).…”

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“…In addition, compared with the absolute value analysis of the twodimensional model, the relative and comprehensive values derived from the three-dimensional ecological footprint model, such as stock-flow utilization ratio, flow occupancy rate, "scissors differential", Gini coefficient of ecological footprint, etc., are more advantageous for in-depth analysis of the dynamics of ecology-economy relationship. Therefore, the three-dimensional ecological footprint model has been highly concerned and widely used in domestic and international academic circles (Fang and Li, 2012;Fang, 2013;Fang, 2015;Du et al, 2016;Ma et al, 2017;Yang and Hu, 2018;Wu et al, 2021). For natural capital accounting of cultivated land, it is necessary to pay attention to both the annual renewable resource and service flows, for example, the main agricultural products supply and ecological functions of cultivated land; and the stock consumption status, such as the area and capability of cultivated land.…”

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Natural capital accounting of cultivated land based on three-dimensional ecological footprint model-- A case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

Zhang

Zhu

Zhang

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The fairness of the utilization of cultivated land resources is essential for the balanced development of the region, but there are few researches to analyze it. Against the background of the urgent need for farmland protection and ecological compensation, this paper takes cultivated land as the research object and uses a three-dimensional ecological footprint model to account for and analyze the utilization of natural capital stock and flow of cultivated land in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from 2009 to 2016 in terms of footprint breadth and depth, so as to provide reference for cultivated land protection, ecological compensation and even coordinated regional ecological-economic development. The results show that from 2009 to 2016, the ecological footprint breadth of cultivated land in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region was generally low and the footprint depth was generally high, and the ecological footprint depth of cultivated land in the region as a whole tended to increase, except for Zhangjiakou and Chengde, which were able to achieve self-sufficiency in flow capital, 85% of the cities showed the phenomenon of depletion of cultivated land flow capital and intensification of stock capital depletion. After 2010, the overall Gini coefficient of the ecological footprint of cultivated land in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area was less than 0.4, and the use of natural capital from cultivated land was relatively balanced. The study concludes that under the strategic role of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration and collaborative development, the equity of natural capital utilization of cultivated land in each city in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has been improved, but the level of creating and utilizing natural capital flows of cultivated land still needs to be improved, and ecological protection of cultivated land needs to be further strengthened; the excessive depletion of natural capital of cultivated land caused by agricultural production can be used as a reference basis for cross-regional ecological compensation of cultivated land, thus supporting the ecological value of cultivated land. Over-consumption of natural capital from agricultural land caused by agricultural production can be used as a baseline for interregional ecological compensation of agricultural land, thus supporting the realization of the ecological value of agricultural land.

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Exploring sustainability and decoupling effects of natural capital utilization in China: Evidence from a provincial three-dimensional ecological footprint

Cited by 33 publications

References 32 publications

Decoupling analysis of water consumption and economic development of arid and semiarid regions in Northwest China

Decoupling analysis of water consumption and economic development of arid and semiarid regions in Northwest China

Construction and Application of the Evaluation System of Natural Resources Asset Accountability Audit of Officials: A Case Study of Jiangxi, China

Natural capital accounting of cultivated land based on three-dimensional ecological footprint model-- A case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

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