Remembering the Ultimate Goal of Environmental Protection: Including Protection of Impoverished Citizens in China’s Environmental Policy

Cao, Shixiong; Chen, Li; Zhu, Qing

doi:10.1007/s13280-010-0043-2

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“…The correlation coefficient of the heavy and severe soil erosion with GDP and per capita net income of farmers are significant at 0.05 and 0.01, respectively, which suggests that the water and soil conservation and the poverty alleviation are in the different trend. That partly demonstrated that the excessive pursuit of the economic benefit jeopardized the ecological benefit to some extent , which also be confirmed by other scholars .…”

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Water and Soil Conservation from the Perspective of Stakeholders: Evidence from China and Policy Implications

Cheng

Zhang

et al. 2013

CLEAN Soil Air Water

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Water and soil conservation is an important measure of ecological restoration in China. However, its success was elusive and often compromised the impoverished people who need to be protected most. Taking Changting County in southeast China as an empirical case, and within the framework of stakeholders, i.e. the government, the farmer, the business enterprise, and the non‐government organizations, this article explored the benefits to the multiple stakeholders in the progress of water and soil conservation. The results show that all stakeholders played various but important roles and their benefit changes from period to period. It was demonstrated that the different roles, pursuits for the ecological or economic benefits directly and largely drive and affect the consequence of water and soil conservation in Changting. The benefit and cost of multiple stakeholders should be identified in a meaningful way and balanced. It is important to improve the livelihoods of the farmer, in particular the impoverished farmer who are heavily dependent on the environment and most affected by the projects. This study demonstrates a new perspective for exploring the relationship between ecological restoration and poverty alleviation, and is conducive to understand the internal mechanisms and provides some general implications for similar areas in developing countries.

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Water and Soil Conservation from the Perspective of Stakeholders: Evidence from China and Policy Implications

Cheng

Zhang

et al. 2013

CLEAN Soil Air Water

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“…In this study, we only focused on the assessment of their ecological effects. However, the projects could not only restore the ecological function (Mu et al, 2013) but alter the local production mode and household livelihood (Cao et al, 2010). Therefore, a comprehensive assessment involving all these effects is needed to be carried out in the further.…”

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Human-induced grassland degradation/restoration in the central Tibetan Plateau: The effects of ecological protection and restoration projects

Cai

Yang

2015

Ecological Engineering

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A B S T R A C TEcological projects are an important and vital method to help ecosystem adaptation and restoration in response to the environment change and human interference. The accurate and objective assessment of ecological projects will assist ecosystem management and adaption. This study took the central Tibetan Plateau as the study area, where a series of ecological projects has been implemented since 2005 to prevent grassland degradation by protecting and restoring the grasslands. Our aim is to explore where and to what extent the ecological projects influenced the grassland variation, using SPOT NDVI-based residual trend as an indicator. The results indicated that before the projects (between 1998 and 2004), human-induced degradation characterized the grassland. However, a general grassland restoration was detected after the projects from 2005 to 2012. Moreover, over 60% of project plots had positive trends in the NDVI residuals. From the spatial patterns, project-induced restoration was detected in the western and northern regions, such as Maduo, Dongde and Xinghai counties. For the eastern regions, the human-induced degradation has been generally mitigated and yet not reversed after the projects. Our results indicated that ecological protection and restoration projects in the central Tibetan Plateau have mitigated the grassland degradation and even reversed the degradation in some areas, and also suggested that the NDVI-based residual trend is a useful indicator for assessing the effectiveness of the ecological projects in alpine regions.

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“…Davidson et al, 2007;Carvalho et al, 2010;Lozano-García and Parras-Alcántara, 2013). The carbon sequestration expected to result from the large-scale afforestation projects is a good goal, but occasionally negatively impacts ecosystem health (Cao et al, 2010b;Wang and Cao, 2011;Qu et al, 2014). For example, it was shown that afforestation may lead to average increases in the soil C by 42% (Guo and Gifford, 2002;Throop et al, 2013).…”

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Shifts in soil organic carbon and nitrogen dynamics for afforestation in central China

Dou

Xiao

et al. 2016

Ecological Engineering

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Remembering the Ultimate Goal of Environmental Protection: Including Protection of Impoverished Citizens in China’s Environmental Policy

Abstract: The life of impoverished people can be dam-

Cited by 25 publications

References 23 publications

Water and Soil Conservation from the Perspective of Stakeholders: Evidence from China and Policy Implications

Water and Soil Conservation from the Perspective of Stakeholders: Evidence from China and Policy Implications

Human-induced grassland degradation/restoration in the central Tibetan Plateau: The effects of ecological protection and restoration projects

Shifts in soil organic carbon and nitrogen dynamics for afforestation in central China

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