Modeling of ecosystem services informs spatial planning in lands adjacent to the Sarvelat and Javaherdasht protected area in northern Iran

Zarandian, Ardavan; Baral, Himlal; Stork, Nigel E.; Ling, Matthew A.; Yavari, A.R.; Jafari, Hamid; Hamid, Abdul

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.12.003

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“…A particular area of interest has been the development and improvement of predictive simulation models, such as the agent-based model (Matthews et al, 2007;Yuan et al, 2017), the cellular automata model and its evolved models based on grid neighborhood relationship analysis (Grinblat et al, 2016;Van Vliet et al, 2017), or the dynamics of land system model and state-and-transition simulation model based on analyses of changes in land system structures and spatial configuration succession (Wilson et al, 2016;Daniel et al, 2016;Najmuddin et al, 2017). Using these simulation models, it is possible to construct rational scenarios for different sustainability objectives, such as maximizing economic effects (Wu et al, 2012), minimizing pollutant emissions or environmental impacts (Bohnes et al, 2017;Degraeuwe et al, 2017), prioritizing ecological security (Brunner et al, 2017;Eitelberg et al, 2016), limiting climate change and carbon emissions (Anaya-Romero et al, 2015;Prestele et al, 2017), as well as for other sustainability scenarios, such as water resources (Proskuryakova et al, 2018), agricultural production (Chaudhary et al, 2018;Krasa et al, 2010;Van Vliet et al, 2017), or environmental protection (Najmuddin et al,2017;Zarandian et al, 2017). Obviously, most of these models are based on historical or current scenarios, and they assume consistent historical trajectories and development statuses, which can be problematic for developing countries with large-scale and disorderly land development (Fan et al, 2018).…”

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Reshaping the Sustainable Geographical Pattern: A Major Function Zoning Model and Its Applications in China

Fan

Wang

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Earth's Future

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The imbalance between human activities and Earth's natural surface adversely affects the sustainability of the Earth system. From an understanding of the suitability of surface functions and potential ramifications of policy decisions, this study proposes a sustainable geographical pattern. It introduces a national‐to‐provincial downscaling approach to optimizing a national‐scale zoning scheme that covers 60%–80% of land development and protection functions in China and to creating a major function zoning model. Taking China as the case study area, the following function zones are identified: urbanization zones, food security zones, ecological security zones, and heritage protection zones. This study then proposes a three‐dimensional index system and algorithm, develops individual and integrated assessments for the major functions of the land grid, and produces national‐scale and provincial‐scale major function zoning schemes consisting of county‐level administrative cells, the first schemes to create a blueprint for a sustainable national land pattern in China through optimized convergence. In total, 5% of China's land area is covered by urbanized zones, 28% by food security zones, 55% by ecological security zones, and 12% by heritage protection zones. In the future, there will be 805 urbanization administrative units, 790 food security counties, 780 ecological security counties, and 8,151 heritage protection zones. The scheme created using the model developed in this study is 95% consistent with the final scheme implemented by China's central government, and it has a high degree of robustness and precision. It can serve as a reference for scientific research and decision‐making concerning sustainable development in developing countries.

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Reshaping the Sustainable Geographical Pattern: A Major Function Zoning Model and Its Applications in China

Fan

Wang

et al. 2019

Earth's Future

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“…In most of above models, spatial and temporal evolution rules are applied to simulate historical or current scenarios, and key development parameters are adjusted to identify the differences among various scenarios, although they are insufficient to diagnose deviation (s) caused by land development policies. However, reasonable scenarios from different dimensions can be constructed by these simulation models, such as maximizing economic effects (Wu, Peng, Zhang, Skitmore, & Song, ); minimizing pollutant emissions or environmental impacts (Bohnes, Gregg, & Laurent, ; Degraeuwe et al, ; Manuel‐Navarrete & Pelling, ); prioritizing ecological protection (Brunner, Huber, & Grêt‐Regamey, ; Eitelberg, van Vliet, Doelman, Stehfest, & Verburg, ); and constraining climate change and carbon emissions (Anaya‐Romero et al, ; Prestele et al, ) as well as sustainable scenarios for relatively singular systems such as water resource systems (Proskuryakova, Saritas, & Sivaev, ), agricultural production systems (Krasa, Dostal, Vrana, & Plocek, ; van Vliet et al, ), and ecological conservation systems (Najmuddin et al, ; Zarandian et al, ). In policy study, those scenario simulation methods could primarily be applied to analyze a single policy dimension or to compare scenarios from different dimensions, but it is difficult to use these models to determine the reasonableness of a policy and even more challenging to quantify the policy deviation.…”

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Assessment of coastal development policy based on simulating a sustainable land‐use scenario for Liaoning Coastal Zone in China

Fan

Wang

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Unsustainable land development policy can result in serious eco‐environmental issues, leading to unsustainable development in coastal zones, the phenomenon of which is particularly prominent in developing countries. How to assess the impact of policy on the sustainable development of land resource in the future is a challenge that is well worth exploring. With the coastal zone of Liaoning Province in China as an example, this paper proposes a new framework for assessing coastal development policy based on simulating the sustainable land‐use scenario (S). The results show that under Scenario D that driven by government's development policies, the proportions of highly exploited construction land and shoreline would be 11 and 18 percentage points higher, respectively, than those under Scenario S, whereas the potential losses of agricultural land and natural land in Scenario S would increase by 14.5% and 12.6%, respectively, the natural shoreline would decrease by 25.1% in comparison with Scenario S. Policy‐led deviation indexes in industrial, urban, and port land use are 12.98, 7.15, and 2.02, respectively, on the contrary in natural land use, it even reaches a high level of −15.07. This indicates that, being driven by the government development policies, the development scales of industrial, urban, and port land/shoreline use significantly will exceed the corresponding sustainably healthy ranges, leading to a massive diversion of natural land/shoreline, which thereby becomes the type most remarkably impacted by policy errors. The findings can provide case‐study analysis and reference for assessing the impact of development policy on resource‐environment sustainability.

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“…Similar issues in other protected areas in Iran have resulted in increased conflict between local people and protected area managers (Zarandian et al, 2017). For example, Mirkarimi in his study on Golestan National Park, Iran, found that a lack of clear boundaries and natural borders resulted in unintentional land clearing of the park's land by local residents.…”

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“…Development based on the protected area attractions can create an opportunity to benefit both the community and biodiversity conservation (López-Rodríguez & Rosado, 2017). It was shown in other studies in Iran that considering all stakeholders' interests can result in achieving both local community development and conservation goals (Zarandian et al, 2017). It is also argued that DOE has been more successful in solving environmental issues when involved in collaboration with other government bodies (Calabrese et al, 2008).…”

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“…Restricting local access to natural resources in the absence of alternative economic benefits can negatively affect their livelihoods. It is also argued that ignoring surrounding unprotected areas can negatively affect the success of protected area management in Iran (Zarandian, Baral, Stork, Ling, Yavari, Jafari, & Amirnejad, 2017). It is now believed internationally that protected areas can play an important role in sustainable development by protecting natural resources, alleviating poverty, and improving local livelihoods (Eagles et al, 2002;Poudel et al, 2016).…”

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Environmental protection and local resident attitudes at early stages of tourism development

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In many developing countries, there are protected areas with very strong natural resources and tourism development potential but in a poor conservation condition. Many of these areas are at pre or early stages of tourism development. These protected areas face problems including shortages of financial resources and park staff, and difficulty in enforcing conservation laws. Strict conservation laws have limited local residents' access to the natural resources and created problems such as increased poaching, habitat destruction and local people-park conflicts. This study adopts a case study approach, choosing two villages in rural Iran that are located near protected areas, one with no tourism and one at the early stage of tourism. Both these villages are experiencing challenges in striving for environmental protection and community development in a remote area of the country.There is a growing body of literature that recognises the importance of local resident attitudes and local people-park relationship roles in achieving both conservation goals and sustainable tourism development in and around protected areas. It is also suggested that incentives from tourism have a pivotal role in positively affecting local resident attitudes to the environment and consequently their behaviour.However, a challenge in the tourism literature is that most of the studies on local resident attitudes to the environment were conducted at a certain stage of development and their results cannot be applied to other stages. Although the literature indicates that tourism revenues improve local resident attitudes towards the environment and conservation, with no study comparing attitudes before and after tourism development, it is unclear whether these positive attitudes are due to tourism benefits or whether the local resident attitudes were positive even before tourism development.It is also widely discussed and hypothesised in the tourism literature that people with positive environmental attitudes are more likely to support environmental conservation activities.Local resident attitudes towards conservation have generally been studied as a single variable in the tourism literature. Importantly the environmental literature suggests that local resident attitudes towards environmental conservation and their attitudes towards protected area management might be different and a distinction has been made in studying these attitudes as separate variables.Consequently, this study aims to investigate the differences between local resident attitudes towards the environment, protected area management (PAM) and tourism at two early stages of tourism development by comparing attitudes in a community that has no prior experience of tourism and a community at an early stage of tourism development. This involved developing six ii hypotheses to assess the association between the three variables within and across a non-tourism setting and a setting with some tourism development in the two case study villages.A survey instrument was designed to mea...

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Modeling of ecosystem services informs spatial planning in lands adjacent to the Sarvelat and Javaherdasht protected area in northern Iran

Cited by 46 publications

References 60 publications

Reshaping the Sustainable Geographical Pattern: A Major Function Zoning Model and Its Applications in China

Reshaping the Sustainable Geographical Pattern: A Major Function Zoning Model and Its Applications in China

Assessment of coastal development policy based on simulating a sustainable land‐use scenario for Liaoning Coastal Zone in China

Environmental protection and local resident attitudes at early stages of tourism development

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