Realizing the values of natural capital for inclusive, sustainable development: Informing China's new ecological development strategy

被引:196
作者
Zheng, Hua [1 ,2 ]
Wang, Lijuan [1 ,2 ]
Peng, Wenjia [1 ,2 ]
Zhang, Cuiping [3 ]
Li, Cong [4 ]
Robinson, Brian E. [5 ]
Wu, Xiaochen [3 ]
Kong, Lingqiao [1 ,2 ]
Li, Ruonan [1 ,2 ]
Xiao, Yi [1 ,2 ]
Xu, Weihua [1 ,2 ]
Ouyang, Zhiyun [1 ,2 ]
Daily, Gretchen C. [6 ,7 ,8 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, State Key Lab Urban & Reg Ecol, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[3] Hainan Acad Environm Sci, Div Ecol Monitoring, Haikou 570206, Hainan, Peoples R China
[4] Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Econ & Finance, Xian 710061, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
[5] McGill Univ, Dept Geog, Montreal, PQ H3A 0B9, Canada
[6] Stanford Univ, Dept Biol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[7] Stanford Univ, Ctr Conservat Biol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[8] Stanford Univ, Nat Capital Project, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
ecosystem services; green growth; natural capital; trade-offs; poverty alleviation; SERVICE TRADE-OFFS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; RAIN-FOREST; RUBBER; WATER; CONSERVATION; BENEFITS; SYSTEMS; DEMAND; CARBON;
D O I
10.1073/pnas.1819501116
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
A major challenge in transforming development to inclusive, sustainable pathways is the pervasive and persistent trade-off between provisioning services (e.g., agricultural production) on the one hand and regulating services (e.g., water purification, flood control) and biodiversity conservation on the other. We report on an application of China's new Ecological Development Strategy, now being formally tested and refined for subsequent scaling nationwide, which aims to mitigate and even eliminate these trade-offs. Our focus is the Ecosystem Function Conservation Area of Hainan Island, a rural, tropical region where expansion of rubber plantations has driven extensive loss of natural forest and its vital benefits to people. We explored both the biophysical and the socioeconomic options for achieving simultaneous improvements in product provision, regulating services, biodiversity, and livelihoods. We quantified historic trade-offs between rubber production and vital regulating services, finding that, over the past 20 y (1998-2017), there was a 72.2% increase in rubber plantation area, leading to decreases in soil retention (17.8%), water purification [reduced retention of nitrogen (56.3%) and phosphorus (27.4%)], flood mitigation (21.9%), carbon sequestration (1.7%), and habitat for biodiversity (6.9%). Using scenario analyses, we identified a two-pronged strategy that would significantly reduce these trade-offs, enhancing regulating services and biodiversity, while simultaneously diversifying and increasing product provision and improving livelihoods. This general approach to analyzing product provision, regulating services, biodiversity, and livelihoods has applicability in rural landscapes across China, South and Southeast Asia, and beyond.
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页码:8623 / 8628
页数:6
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