Integrating ecosystem services value for sustainable land-use management in semi-arid region

Rao, Yingxue; Zhou, Min; Ou, Guoliang; Dai, Deyi; Zhang, Lu; Zuo, Zhuang; Nie, Xin; Yang, Chung‐Chun

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.03.119

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“…We refined the potential habitat for each species based on specific distribution area, elevational range, and vegetation. Data on specific distribution areas were obtained from the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; habitat requirements for elevation and vegetation for each species were derived from the Scientific Database of China Plant Species, the IUCN Red List, BirdLife International, and recent studies 28 .…”

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Effectiveness of protection areas in safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services in Tibet Autonomous Region

Wang

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The Tibet Autonomous Region of China constitutes a unique and fragile ecosystem that is increasingly influenced by development and global climate change. To protect biodiversity and ecosystem services in Tibet, the Chinese government established a system of nature reserves at a significant cost; however, the effectiveness of nature reserves at protecting both—biodiversity and ecosystem service functions in Tibet is not clear. To determine the success of existing nature reserves, we determined importance areas for the conservation of mammal, plant, bird, amphibian, and reptile species, and for the protection of ecosystem service functions. The results indicated that important conservation areas for endangered plants were mainly distributed in the southern part of Nyingchi City, and for endangered animals, in the southern part of Nyingchi and Shannan Cities. Extremely important conservation areas for ecosystem service functions of carbon sequestration, water and soil protection, and flood regulation were mainly distributed in the southern part of Nyingchi and Shannan Cities, northern and southeastern parts of Nagqu City, and southern part of Ngari area. Based on an analysis of spatial overlap in protection areas, we conclude that existing natural reserves need to be expanded, and new ones need to be established to better protect biodiversity in Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Effectiveness of protection areas in safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services in Tibet Autonomous Region

Wang

et al. 2022

Sci Rep

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“…For example, if the average diet of each country were consumed globally, the agricultural land area needed to supply these diets would vary 14-fold, due to country differences in ruminant protein and calorific intake (-55% to +178% compared to existing cropland areas). Given the important role enteric fermentation plays in methane (CH4) emissions, a number of studies have examined the implications of lower animal-protein diets (Swain et al 2018;Röös et al 2017;Rao et al 2018). Reduction of animal protein intake has been estimated to reduce global green water (from precipitation) use by 11% and blue water (from rivers, lakes, groundwater) use by 6% (Jalava et al 2014).…”

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Agriculture

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2021

Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy

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Land, including its water bodies, provides the basis for human livelihoods and well-being through primary productivity, the supply of food, freshwater, and multiple other ecosystem services (high confidence). Neither our individual or societal identities, nor the world's economy would exist without the multiple resources, services and livelihood systems provided by land ecosystems and biodiversity. The annual value of the world's total terrestrial ecosystem services has been estimated at 75 trillion USD in 2011, approximately equivalent to the annual global Gross Domestic Product (based on USD2007 values) (medium confidence). Land and its biodiversity also represent essential, intangible benefits to humans, such as cognitive and spiritual enrichment, sense of belonging and aesthetic and recreational values. Valuing ecosystem services with monetary methods often overlooks these intangible services that shape societies, cultures and quality of life and the intrinsic value of biodiversity. The Earth's land area is finite. Using land resources sustainably is fundamental for human well-being (high confidence). {1.1.1} Land use and observed climate change SPM approved draft IPCC SRCCL | Page Subject to copy edit and layout 1 2 3 Prevalence of overweight + obese 4 Prevalence of underweight Total calories per capita Population CHANGE in EMISSIONS since 1961 B. GHG emissionsAn estimated 23% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016) derive from Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU). E. Food demandIncreases in production are linked to consumption changes. F. Desertification and land degradationLand-use change, land-use intensification and climate change have contributed to desertification and land degradation.CHANGE in % rel. to 1961 and 1970 CHANGE in % rel. to 1961 and 1975 1 2 3 Inland wetland extent Dryland areas in drought annually Population in areas experiencing desertification 1 2 3 CHANGE in % rel. to 1961 1 2 3 Irrigation water volume 4 Total number of ruminant livestock Cereal yields Inorganic N fertiliser use Intensive pasture 2%12% (12 -14%) 1% (1 -1%) 37% (30 -47%) 22% (16 -23%) 28% (24 -31%)

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“…China is one of the fast-growth emerging nations in the world [2], achieving its higher record of gross domestic product (GDP) development of 9.6% in the last 20 years [15,16]. However, this relative fast growth was made at the expense of the ES depletion and high environmental damage [17][18][19]. With increasing negative environmental externality that affected the wellbeing and the public health of their local citizens [15], the Chinese government decided to embrace an ambitious plane of sustainable development that required changes in key sectors such as agriculture, energy and industry [6,15,16,20,21].…”

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Using Satellite Image Fusion to Evaluate the Impact of Land Use Changes on Ecosystem Services and Their Economic Values

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Padmanaban

Mbanze

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Accelerated land use change is a current challenge for environmental management worldwide. Given the urgent need to incorporate economic and ecological goals in landscape planning, cost-effective conservation strategies are required. In this study, we validated the benefit of fusing imagery from multiple sensors to assess the impact of landscape changes on ecosystem services (ES) and their economic values in the Long County, Shaanxi Province, China. We applied several landscape metrics to assess the local spatial configuration over 15 years (2004–2019) from fused imageries. Using Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite System Linear Imaging Self Scanning Sensor 3 (IRS LISS 3) imageries fused for 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019, we reclassified land use/land cover (LULC) changes, through the rotation forest (RF) machine-learning algorithm. We proposed an equivalent monetary metric for estimating the ES values, which also could be used in the whole China. Results showed that agriculture farmland and unused land decreased their spatial distribution over time, with an observed increase on woodland, grassland, water bodies and built-up area. Our findings suggested that the patterns of landscape uniformity and connectivity improved, while the distribution of landscape types stabilized, while the landscape diversity had a slight improvement. The overall ES values increased (4.34%) under a benefit transfer approach, mainly concerning woodland and grassland. A sensitivity analysis showed the selected economic value (EV) was relevant and suitable for the study area associated with our ES for LULC changes. We suggested that changes in landscape patterns affected the ESV trends, while the increases on some LULC classes slightly improved the landscape diversity. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we recommend that local authorities and environmental practitioners should balance the economic benefits and ecological gains in different landscapes to achieve a sustainable development from local to regional scales.

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Integrating ecosystem services value for sustainable land-use management in semi-arid region

Cited by 92 publications

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Effectiveness of protection areas in safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services in Tibet Autonomous Region

Effectiveness of protection areas in safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services in Tibet Autonomous Region

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Using Satellite Image Fusion to Evaluate the Impact of Land Use Changes on Ecosystem Services and Their Economic Values

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