National parks in China: Parks for people or for the nation?

Wang, Ju-Han Zoe

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.10.034

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“…China’s national parks were established to protect the authenticity and integrity of the ecosystem and cultural heritage, and they also provide for the comprehensive functions of scientific research, education, and recreation [62]. However, plenty of national park pilots were based on nature reserves and scenic spots that integrated more protected areas and surrounding areas [63] but lacked certain methodological guidance.…”

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Construction of Ecological Security Patterns in Nature Reserves Based on Ecosystem Services and Circuit Theory: A Case Study in Wenchuan, China

Fan

Liu

et al. 2019

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Facing the demands of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service improvement, the spatial pattern optimization of nature reserves has always been a research topic of interest. However, there remains a lack of methodological guidance in the planning of nature reserves and the surrounding areas. To promote the landscape sustainability of nature reserves, we constructed ecological security patterns (ESPs) with two scenarios as a case study in Wenchuan, China. In detail, the ecological sources were identified by ecosystem service evaluation, and the resistance surface was characterized by the habitat quality. The ecological corridors were determined based on circuit theory and the minimum cumulative resistance model. The ecological sources were mainly aggregated in the protected areas, with an area of more than 1000 ha; the high-resistance values were mainly in the area with dense roads or high elevation. There were 21 corridors in the scenario of only optimizing the nature reserve, while 31 corridors were identified when considering non-nature reserves, and the landscape connectivity was enhanced accordingly. The result supported constructing the ESPs between nature and non-nature reserves in Wenchuan to further protect pandas, and a methodological contribution was made to understand the differences of ESPs between them, thus supporting a methodological formulation of sustainable landscape patterns.

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Construction of Ecological Security Patterns in Nature Reserves Based on Ecosystem Services and Circuit Theory: A Case Study in Wenchuan, China

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Liu

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“…To this end, this study focuses on the implementation process of conservation and development policies from the perspective of community preferences and explores the latter's willingness to participate. This is helpful to develop a community-based, participatory approach to park management, which explicitly addresses the criticisms to the top-down approach ignoring community participation [37]. Our study contributes to the literature by exploring community preferences for different conservation and development policies from the perspective of local households.…”

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“…The establishment of national parks (NPs) in China has followed such a top-down mode. Initially set up in November 2013, it was clearly stated that the pilot establishment of the NP system would be basically completed by 2020 [37]. In October 2018, the unveiling ceremony of the Giant Panda NP administration was held in Chengdu, Sichuan, marking the beginning of a comprehensive phase of the pilot project of the Giant Panda NP.…”

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“…The project is aimed to summarize an effective model and make the establishment of the NP a successful experience [38]. Despite its high implementation efficiency, the top-down approach gives limited consideration to local interests [37]. The local community is the direct target of the conservation policy, and community members are important participants in biodiversity conservation.…”

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Community Participation and Preferences Regarding Conservation and Development Policies in China’s Giant Panda Nature Reserves

Wen

2019

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Community participation in conservation activities is an important mechanism to coordinate the conflicts between conservation and local development. Hence, it is necessary to understand farmers’ preferences for different conservation and development policies. By surveying households residing inside and outside the four giant panda nature reserves in the Qinling Mountains, China, in 2018, this study uses a choice experiment model to evaluate participation willingness and stated preferences regarding the establishment of national parks (NPs), ecotourism development, ecological public welfare forest compensation, and provision of ecological jobs. Our results suggest that these conservation and development policies all have a positive impact on community participation in conservation. Among the different conservation and development policies, farmers seem to prefer the government developing ecotourism most, followed by providing ecological jobs, establishing NPs, and finally the compensation amount and period of ecological public welfare forests. Moreover, farmers with different characteristics have different preferences regarding conservation and development policies. Age, education level, whether the respondent is a village cadre, family forestland area, family income, and whether the respondent lives in a nature reserve are relevant socio-economic characteristics of the affected farmers.

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“…National parks play increasingly important roles in ecological conservation and sustainable uses of natural resources in both political and practical perspectives (Ma et al, 2019;Wei et al, 2017). However, ecosensitivities (Wang et al, 2012;Wang, 2019). Therefore, it is essential to identify local people and support different cultures.…”

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Cultural ecosystem services of Chinese typical landscapes : Rethinking non-material links between people and their landscapes

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Landscapes have been and are being changed by processes such as urbanization and economic development. In response to ecosystem degradation from rapid economic development, China began investing heavily in protecting and restoring ecosystems since 1990s (Ouyang et al., 2016). In addition to the economic development, ecological restoration and conservation may also sharply change their landscapes (Dou et al., 2019). General Introduction Colophon

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National parks in China: Parks for people or for the nation?

Cited by 83 publications

References 29 publications

Construction of Ecological Security Patterns in Nature Reserves Based on Ecosystem Services and Circuit Theory: A Case Study in Wenchuan, China

Construction of Ecological Security Patterns in Nature Reserves Based on Ecosystem Services and Circuit Theory: A Case Study in Wenchuan, China

Community Participation and Preferences Regarding Conservation and Development Policies in China’s Giant Panda Nature Reserves

Cultural ecosystem services of Chinese typical landscapes : Rethinking non-material links between people and their landscapes

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