The assessment of forest ecological security and its determining indicators: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

Lu, Shasha; Tang, Xu; Guan, Xingliang; Fan, Qin; Liu, Xu; Zhang, Dahong

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.110048

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“…The environmental aspect of sustainable forestry development implies the preservation of the environment, the biological diversity of forest ecosystems, the rational use of natural resources, the protection of the atmosphere, land, subsoil, forests, water, and the ecologically safe use of biotechnology (Goals 6,12,13,15). The economic aspect reflects the balance of economic interests of the main subjects of forest relations: the state, the owner of the forests, forest users, the management authorities of forests at all levels and the public (Goals 2,3,7,8,12) [5].…”

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“…Indeed, these environmental pressures may often remain external to the companies and would not be accounted for in such traditional performance measures as, e.g., financial indicators. The environmental measures (and the associated EPIs) can be measured in a number of ways [7][8][9]. In particular, EPIs are designed to describe such issues as pollution, biodiversity, climate, energy use, erosion, ecosystem services, and environmental education, among others [10,11].…”

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Assessment of the Profitability of Environmental Activities in Forestry

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The paper presents a framework for the financial analysis of the environmental measures (programmes) for forestry enterprises. The indicators of the economic and social effectiveness of environmental measures are discussed. The prospects for their implementation in the context of sustainable forest management in Ukraine are analysed. The research focuses on the effectiveness of environmental measures at the level of forestry enterprise. The proposed framework allows for determining the economic and social effectiveness of environmental measures at the enterprise level. To this end, the net discounted income is used to measure the profitability of environmental measures. The payback period is determined to provide an intuition behind the decision to participate in the environmental measures. The proposed framework allows for improving decision support for the national sustainable forestry development programmes not only at the macro level, but also at the level of enterprises.

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“…Pirages [ 14 ] argued that ecological security is the balance between human need and environmental affordability for sustainable development. Synthesizing the definitions of ecological security in previous scholarship, the core element of this concept is in relation to coordinating the relationship between the natural ecosystem and economic society [ 8 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ]. On account of the importance of ecological security, a growing body of literature on identifying ecological security patterns (ESPs) has emerged.…”

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“…Despite a fruitful line of research in analyzing ESP, there seems to be a lack of ESP application, particularly in incorporating ESP into urban growth simulation [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 23 , 24 , 25 ]. On one hand, most ESP-related studies have focused on ESP identification and construction.…”

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“…As a matter of fact, it is evident that ESP covers a much larger extent than the conservation area [ 10 , 11 ]. In light of the importance of ESP in achieving sustainable development [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ], there is a compelling need to incorporate ESP in urban growth simulation. It follows that if we, as a society, call for more eco-friendly and sustainable urban development, then ESP is required in simulating urban growth as a key facet in better informing planners and policymakers in landscape design and urban planning.…”

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Simulating Urban Growth Scenarios Based on Ecological Security Pattern: A Case Study in Quanzhou, China

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Wei

Jia

2020

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In recent decades, the ecological security pattern (ESP) has drawn increasing scientific attention against the backdrop of rapid urbanization and worsening ecological environment. Despite numerous achievements in identifying and constructing the ecological security pattern, limited attention has been paid on applying ESP to predict urban growth. To bridge the research gap, this paper took Quanzhou, China as a study case and incorporated the identified ESP into an urban growth simulation with three distinct scenarios. Following the “ecological source–ecological corridor–ecological security pattern” paradigm, the ESP identification was carried out from four single aspects (i.e., water, geology, biodiversity, and recreation) into three levels (i.e., basic ESP, intermediate ESP, and optimal ESP). Grounded in an equally weighted superposition algorithm, the four single ESPs were combined as an integrated ESP (IESP) with three levels. Taking IESP as an exclusion element, urban growth simulation in 2030 was completed with thee SLEUTH model. Drawing on the three levels of IESP, our urban growth simulation contained three scenarios. In terms of urban sprawl distribution coupled with urban growth rate, an optimal urban growth scenario is recommended in this paper to balance both urban development and eco-environment protection. We argue that our ESP-based urban growth simulation results shed new light on predicting urban sprawl and have the potential to inform planners and policymakers to contribute to more environmentally-friendly urban development.

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Spatiotemporal evolution and suitability of apple production in China from climate change and land use transfer perspectives

Wang¹,

Liu²

2022

Food and Energy Security

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Apple production in China, the world's largest apple producer and consumer, is challenged by a huge and growing population coupled with rapid industrialisation and urbanisation. China's apple output has increased continuously over the past 42 years with distinctive spatial differences. Herein, changes in the spatial patterns of apple production increases, and their potential impact factors in China are described at the provincial level. Between 1978 and 2019, the centreof-gravity of apple production shifted southwest towards the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the main water source for agricultural irrigation in North China.Analysis of absolute and relative growth of apple output reveals that the Loess Plateau, characterised by fragile habitat and low land productivity, has gradually become a major contributor to apple production. Despite annual increases in apple output, apple production system has become more fragile and unstable overtime, especially in the Shaanxi-Gansu region where apple cultivation is prevalent. With continuous changes in policy, the amount of forest transfer (i.e. the area of other land use types converted to forest) has significantly affected the impact of standardised precipitation evapotranspiration index on apple production increases in China. Thus, to prevent the degradation of new forests, a differentiated management and protection system should be implemented for apple planting sub-regions. This should include altering subsidy policies on apple production, enhancing soil erosion control in the Loess Plateau and strengthening ecological management of forests and grassland. K E Y W O R D Sapple production increase, forest transfer, spatiotemporal evolution, standardised precipitation evapotranspiration index How to cite this article: Wang, J., & Liu, T. (2022). Spatiotemporal evolution and suitability of apple production in China from climate change and land use transfer perspectives. Food and Energy Security, 11, e386.

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The assessment of forest ecological security and its determining indicators: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

Cited by 97 publications

References 56 publications

Assessment of the Profitability of Environmental Activities in Forestry

Assessment of the Profitability of Environmental Activities in Forestry

Simulating Urban Growth Scenarios Based on Ecological Security Pattern: A Case Study in Quanzhou, China

Spatiotemporal evolution and suitability of apple production in China from climate change and land use transfer perspectives

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