Managing supply and demand of ecosystem services in dryland catchments

Wei, Yongping; Wu, Shuanglei; Jiang, Chong; Feng, Xiaoming

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2020.08.007

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“…Drylands are considered to be the largest biome on the Planet, predicted to extend over 45% of the land and increasing by an additional 7% by 2100 largely due to global warming (Koutroulis et al, 2019; Prăvălie, 2016; Schimel, 2010). A large number of ES are provided by dryland ecosystems, storing 46% of the Earth's terrestrial biomass and containing approximately one‐third of the hotspots of biodiversity (Berdugo et al, 2020; Huang et al, 2015; Lu et al, 2018; Wei et al, 2021). Variations in ecosystem services will further directly or indirectly affect human beings, through services such as water and food security, poverty, land degradation, sustainable agriculture, livestock health, and natural hazards (Lu et al, 2018; Peng et al, 2020; B. Zhang et al, 2010; D. Zhang et al, 2017).…”

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“…Many scholars have argued that it is important to account for ES in financial and monetary terms to help policy‐makers assess the value of dryland ecosystems (Castro et al, 2018). Indeed, national‐scale ecosystem assessments have identified the economic interests of ES and are an effective method for environmental conservation policies (Tolessa et al, 2017; Wei et al, 2021). Studies have found that economic value relies on the valuation approach used and the types of ecosystems examined within drylands (M. Li et al, 2010; Sannigrahi et al, 2020; Song, 2018; Su et al, 2012).…”

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“…. A large number of ES are provided by dryland ecosystems, storing 46% of the Earth's terrestrial biomass and containing approximately one-third of the hotspots of biodiversity (Berdugo et al, 2020;Huang et al, 2015;Lu et al, 2018;Wei et al, 2021). Variations in ecosystem services will further directly or indirectly affect human beings, through services such as water and food security, poverty, land degradation, sustainable agriculture, livestock health, and natural hazards (Lu et al, 2018;Peng et al, 2020;B.…”

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Assessment of spatiotemporal variations of ecosystem service values and hotspots in a dryland: A case‐study in Pakistan

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Ecosystem services (ES) provided by dryland ecosystems store nearly half and one-third of the Earth's terrestrial biomass and biodiversity, respectively. Pakistan is a typical dryland region with significant land degradation and dramatic changes in ES in recent decades, which has not been sufficiently investigated. This study explored the spatiotemporal variations in ecosystem service values (ESV) over Pakistan (2001Pakistan ( -2018 by combining land use/cover data, economic modeling, and hotspot analysis. From the achieved results, the total ESV indicated an improvement in ES before 2012 and then showed a declining trend. The largest contribution was attributed to the increase in forest/shrubland by 16.17% (2001-2006) and 10.36% (2006-2012). However, the ESV decreased to 7.76% from 2012 to 2018, which was mainly attributed to the decrease in cropland and grassland. Heterogeneous changes were observed in ESV. The hotspot of ESV change (approximately an area of 32,578 km 2 ) was mainly located in the southern and southeastern parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), the northeastern part of Balochistan and the central and western parts of Sindh Province. The cold spot (approximately an area of 24,491 km 2 ) showed a distribution in the northern part of KPK and Gilgit Baltistan, northeastern Punjab, coastal regions, and southeastern Sindh Province. We also found that although the total ESV and gross domestic product (GDP) indicated growth, the proportion of ESV from the total ESV and GDP (%ESV) exhibited a negative trend.The Provinces of Punjab and Balochistan retained the highest value of %ESV, while Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan were much lower. These results reflected the spatial imbalance of ecosystem protection and economic development in Pakistan. We recommend that necessary actions for conserving ES are important to strengthen ecological conservation in Pakistan. Additionally, further interdisciplinary research is needed to fully explore synergies in conserving ES and economical conservation.

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“…Thus, the influences from the social dimension are only considered as residuals from explanations of rational economic behaviour. These models have been criticized for being overly simplistic, and unable to capture the diversity of human behaviour (Schlüter et al, 2017), and thus fail to reflect the reality of conflict and cooperation in transboundary rivers (Wei et al, 2021).…”

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“…This will be achieved by transforming narratives into quantitative explanatory data through a content coding scheme, which is rooted in a context-mechanism-outcome configurations and allows for triangulation by multiple data sources (Pawson & Tilley, 1997). We, with this approach, have tracked the evolution of societal value on water with media data for different research contexts (Wei et al, 2017;Xiong et al, 2016), Wu et al, 2018;Wei et al, 2021;Geneva, 2021). and their links with biophysical changes in social sciences, it remains a challenge to formalize these relationships in a systemic, consistent, and generalizable way.…”

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A socio-hydrologic framework for understanding conflict and cooperation in transboundary rivers

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Abstract. Increasing hydrologic variability, accelerating population growth, and resurgence of water resources development projects have all indicated increasing tensions among the riparian countries of transboundary rivers. This article aims to review the existing knowledge on conflict and cooperation in transboundary rivers from a multidisciplinary perspective and propose a socio-hydrological framework that integrates the slow and less visible societal processes with existing hydrological-economic models, revealing the hidden feedbacks between changes in societal processes and hydrological changes. This framework contributes to understanding the mechanism that drives conflict and cooperation in transboundary river management.

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The reallocation of water and ecosystem service values in arid ecosystems with the implementation of an ecological water diversion project

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The rational allocation of the water resources in drylands and the scientific evaluation of their values are important for the regional sustainable development. We estimated the water consumption of each ecosystem in Ejina Oases in the arid area in northwest China based on the water balance equation, then assessed their ecosystem service values (ESVs) using the value per unit area method and the value equivalent factor per unit area method considering the cost of water consumption, respectively, and calculated their water productivities from 1990 to 2015. With the implementation of the ecological water diversion project (EWDP) in 2000, the deciduous broadleaf forest dominated by Populus euphratica had an increasing trend, meanwhile, lakes had a changing process from shrinking and drying up to recovery and expansion from 1990 to 2015. The total water consumption in Ejina Oases decreased from 5.26*108 m3 in 1990 to 4.79*108 m3 in 2000, and then increased continually to 5.97*108 m3 in 2015. The water consumption of forest, grassland and cultivated land hardly changed, while the water consumption of water or wetland changed obviously. The total ESVs estimated using the value per unit area method in Ejina Oases decreased from 1052.6 to 787.3 million ¥ in the period of 1990–2000, then increased to 1500.6 million ¥ in 2015, while the ESVs estimated using the value equivalent factor per unit area method decreased from 6368.7 million ¥ in 1990 to 5892.0 million ¥ in 2000, then increased to 7139.9 million ¥ in 2015, and the latter method was more reasonable. The results showed that the EWDP started in 2000 led to the reallocation of water resources and transfer of ESVs among ecosystems, which had obvious performance in the ecological environment and social economy. This study provided a comprehensive view of water use and management, ecological restoration and socio-economic development in this key ecological function zone, and will help decision-makers to formulate the scheme of rational allocation and efficient utilization of water resources in the basin.

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Managing supply and demand of ecosystem services in dryland catchments

Cited by 20 publications

References 25 publications

Assessment of spatiotemporal variations of ecosystem service values and hotspots in a dryland: A case‐study in Pakistan

Assessment of spatiotemporal variations of ecosystem service values and hotspots in a dryland: A case‐study in Pakistan

A socio-hydrologic framework for understanding conflict and cooperation in transboundary rivers

The reallocation of water and ecosystem service values in arid ecosystems with the implementation of an ecological water diversion project

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