Linking ecosystem services supply, social demand and human well-being in a typical mountain–oasis–desert area, Xinjiang, China

Wei, Hejie; Liu, Huiming; Xu, Zihan; Ren, Jingye; Lu, Nachuan; Peng, Zhang; Dong, Xiaobin

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.03.012

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“…Identifying the relationships between ESs and land use change and incorporating effective results into management practices present a key challenge in achieving sustainability [43,56]. The requirements for assessing the different aspects of ESs, engaging with stakeholders, and meeting the demands of environmental policy makers motivate the integration of biophysical and sociocultural methods into ESs and land use change research.…”

Section: Integrating Biophysical and Sociocultural Methods Into Ecosymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The direct social benefits to human well-being produced by regulating services were weak. However, the maintenance of regulating services could not be ignored because they provide the foundation for provisioning services [82] and could exert an impact on human well-being in the long term [43]. The increased amount in the Oasis bundle arose mainly from the conversion of the Oasis-Desert Transition bundle.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Given that biophysical methods are unable to capture the perceptions of local residents toward ESs and land use change, multidisciplinary approaches, including biophysical and sociocultural methods, must be applied to understand the relationships between ESs and land use change. Given their capability to quickly collect information on the perceptions of stakeholders, questionnaire surveys have great potential in addressing research gaps [35,43]. In sum, we can fully understand the supply and demand sides of ES and obtain sufficient information about the relationship between ESs and land use change by integrating biophysical and sociocultural methods into ES research.…”

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Integrating Biophysical and Sociocultural Methods for Identifying the Relationships between Ecosystem Services and Land Use Change: Insights from an Oasis Area

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Identifying the relationships between ecosystem services (ESs) and land use change is crucial for ES management and sustainable regional development. The Manas region in China has witnessed dramatic reclamation activities in its desert areas that resulted in ecological problems. The changes in eight ESs, including crop production (CP), livestock production (LP), soil conservation (SC), water yield (WY), sand fixation (SF), carbon sequestration (CS), habitat quality (HQ), and nature landscape recreation (NLR), were investigated by using biophysical and questionnaire methods. At the regional scale, provisioning services (i.e., CP and LP) showed some performance improvements, whereas most of the regulating services (i.e., WY, CS, and HQ) along with NLR showed a performance decline. Five ES bundles—Upper Mountain, Foothill, Oasis, Oasis–Desert Transition, and Desert bundle—were identified at the township scale via k-means clustering. From 2000 to 2015, the Oasis bundle sprawled as a result of oasisization, whereas the Oasis–Desert Transition and Foothill bundles decreased. We performed a questionnaire survey and a statistical analysis to identify the causes behind the performance improvement/decline of these ESs and found that the land use changes in the Manas region had a significant impact on these services. More than 50% of the survey respondents identified land use changes as the primary driver of the changes in some ESs (i.e., CP, CS, HQ, and NLR). In the correlation and partial correlation analyses, oasisization was significantly and positively correlated with CP but was negatively correlated with WY, CS, HQ, and NLR. We enhanced the reliability of our conclusions by integrating biophysical and sociocultural methods into our investigation of ES and land use change. In view of the huge losses in regulating and cultural services, the Manas region should limit its desert reclamation activities to control the expansion of its oasis and to improve the quality of its cropland. Our results can help formulate effective ES management and land use decisions in the Manas region or similar areas.

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“…The wellbeing composite index, which effectively measures changes in ecosystem services and health, is a very necessary indicator for measuring sustainable human development. Society and the economy, health and safety, and materials and resources are fundamental and important concerns for assessing human wellbeing [27,37,42,57]. Economic growth, social stability, adequate materials, and physical and mental health are undoubtedly the components of human wellbeing.…”

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“…MA pointed out that approximately 60% of the tested ecosystem services were weakened and were utilized in an unsustainable way, and the capacity of the ecosystem to sustainably supply ecosystem services was seriously threatened by human activities. However, under the influence of natural and human factors, the mismatch between the declining ecosystem service supply capacity and the increasing social demand has become an important reason for the decline of human wellbeing [41,42]. Ecosystem services are an important representation of the health of an ecosystem.…”

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Study on the Sustainable Development of an Arid Basin Based on the Coupling Process of Ecosystem Health and Human Wellbeing Under Land Use Change—A Case Study in the Manas River Basin, Xinjiang, China

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Due to the differences in the contributions of land use types to ecosystem health and human wellbeing, there is a trade-off and a coordinating relationship between ecosystem health and human wellbeing, which affects the sustainable development of a river basin. To explore the impacts of the responses of ecosystem health and human wellbeing and the combined effects under land use change, this paper, taking the Manas River Basin (MRB) as an example, evaluated the health status of the MRB by the model: Vitality (V), organization (O), resilience (R), and services (S). From a sustainability perspective, an index system of human wellbeing was constructed, which included society and the economy, health and safety, materials and resources, and ecology and the environment. On this basis, the coupling coordination relationship and sustainable development status of the basin was assessed. The results showed that as land use changed, the ecosystem health showed a downward trend, and human wellbeing grew exponentially. The sustainable development index and the coupling coordination degree of the MRB were similar, indicating that the level of balance between ecosystem health and human wellbeing was the key to the sustainable development of the basin, and the overall situation was in a state of moderate imbalance and moderate unsustainability. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out sustainable management of the whole basin.

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Land management to reconcile ecosystem services supply and demand mismatches—A case study in Shanghai municipality, China

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City managers need to understand how land use and land cover (LULC) change in an urban landscape can affect future land degradation and conditions for ecosystem services (ESs) supply and demand. Optimal land use and land management requires explicit spatial mapping of ESs supply and demand under alternative land use scenarios. In this study, we applied spatially explicit models to predict changes in ESs supply and demand, and their coupling mechanisms, under one baseline scenario and three stakeholder-defined LULC change scenarios (developed, planning, policy) in Shanghai municipality, China. The results suggest that the policy scenario could significantly increase ESs supply and restore degraded urban areas, but would not guarantee that supply meets demand for four key ESs tested: water retention, particulate matter removal, carbon sequestration, and recreation. However, the policy scenario significantly reduced the shortfalls and spatial mismatches in water retention, particulate matter removal and recreation services, and also greatly restored deficit areas for all four ESs. This is valuable scientific evidence that ESs supply and demand information can be incorporated into urban land management planning in a spatially explicit manner, in order to control or prevent future potential land degradation.

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Linking ecosystem services supply, social demand and human well-being in a typical mountain–oasis–desert area, Xinjiang, China

Cited by 125 publications

References 47 publications

Integrating Biophysical and Sociocultural Methods for Identifying the Relationships between Ecosystem Services and Land Use Change: Insights from an Oasis Area

Integrating Biophysical and Sociocultural Methods for Identifying the Relationships between Ecosystem Services and Land Use Change: Insights from an Oasis Area

Study on the Sustainable Development of an Arid Basin Based on the Coupling Process of Ecosystem Health and Human Wellbeing Under Land Use Change—A Case Study in the Manas River Basin, Xinjiang, China

Land management to reconcile ecosystem services supply and demand mismatches—A case study in Shanghai municipality, China

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