scholarly journals Equilibrium Relationship between Ecosystem Service Supply and Consumption Driven by Economic Development and Ecological Restoration

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1486
Author(s):  
Xianghua Zhang ◽  
Lingbo Dong ◽  
Yingli Huang ◽  
Yanli Xu ◽  
Huiyan Qin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Equilibrium Relationship ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The Relationship

Economic development and ecological restoration guided by policies has had a profound impact on the relationship between ecosystem service supply and consumption in the past few decades. Exploring the relationship in specific study areas is necessary to support regional planning for sustainability. In this study, we analyzed the equilibrium relationship between ecosystem service supply and consumption driven by economic development and ecological restoration from 1995 to 2018 in Northeast China. We quantified the supply and consumption of three critical ecosystem services, food production, water yield and atmospheric regulation, and identified the main areas for supply and consumption of ecosystem services. We measured the quantity and spatial equilibrium relationship between ecosystem service supply and consumption driven by economic development and ecological restoration at economic megaregion scale. We found the new industrial structure shaped by regional economic development policies formed the new ecosystem service consumer demand. The development of agricultural industry not only resulted in the increase of water consumption, but also the scope of water consumption was expanded in Northeast China. The development of tertiary industry causes the change of atmospheric regulation consumption in urban agglomeration. What’s more, economic development exacerbated imbalances in the supply and consumption of ecosystem services. The unbalanced areas where food supply was less than consumption were in the clusters of Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, and coastal cities. Since food products can circulate freely through the market, this imbalance will not fundamentally affect regional food security, but will improve the level of agricultural industrialization and scale. The implementation of the grain economic policy caused the rapid expansion of unbalanced areas where water supply was less than consumption. The incredible space mismatch between the supply and consumption of ecosystem services still exists for a long time. However, the implementation of the ecological restoration didn’t effectively solve the problem of insatiable ecosystem service consumption. The ecosystem service consumption brought by economic development need to be given the utmost attention when formulating ecological restoration policies and economic development policies. The results can provide insights for enhancing economic sustainability in northeast china, as well other economic megaregion with similar characteristics throughout the world.

scholarly journals Impacts of Grain-for-Green and Grain-for-Blue Policies on Valued Ecosystem Services in Shandong Province, China

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Song ◽  
Xiangzheng Deng ◽  
Bing Liu ◽  
Zhaohua Li ◽  
Gui Jin
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Nutrient Cycling ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Net Primary Productivity ◽  
Shandong Province ◽  
Ecosystem Service Value ◽  
Grain For Green ◽  
Service Value

China launched a series of ecological restoration policies to mitigate its severe environmental challenges in the late 1990s. From the beginning, the effects and influences of the ecological restoration policies have been hotly debated. In the present study, we assessed the effects of two vital ecological restoration policies (Grain-for-Green and Grain-for-Blue) on valued ecosystem services in Shandong province. A new method based on the net primary productivity and soil erosion was developed to assess the ecosystem service value. In the areas implementing the Grain-for-Green and Grain-for-Blue policies, the ecosystem service value increased by 24.01% and 43.10% during 2000–2008, respectively. However, comparing to the average increase of ecosystem service value (46.00%) in the whole of Shandong province in the same period, Grain-for-Green and Grain-for-Blue did not significantly improve overall ecosystem services. The ecological restoration policy led to significant tradeoffs in ecosystem services. Grain-for-Green improved the ecosystem service function of nutrient cycling, organic material provision, and regulation of gases but decreased that of water conservation. Grain-for-Blue increased the water conservation function but led to a reduction in the function of soil conservation and nutrient cycling.

Research on Ecological Restoration of Wetland Landscape in Reclamation Land Environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 608-609 ◽  
pp. 1056-1060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Cao ◽  
Xue Nan Mu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Coastal Wetland ◽  
Wetland Ecosystem ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Biological Resources ◽  
Coastal Reclamation ◽  
Full Investigation

This paper first analyses the advantage of coastal reclamation and its impact on the environment, finally proposed reclamation development mode of benign development which can provide the reasonable reference for the further research of reclamation. The article puts forward that exploitation should follow the principles of both protection and development. Through the full investigation of biological resources, wetland environmental carrying capacity of natural attributes, and huge demand and utilization situation of wetland and other social attributes of the reclamation, to analyze of wetland ecosystem service function, so as to accurately judge the reclamation suitability. Therefore, the reclamation is not only to meet the requirements of economic development, more attention should be paid to the protection of coastal wetland region.

Restoration of Ecosystem Services for Environmental Markets

Science ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 325 (5940) ◽  
pp. 575-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Palmer ◽  
Solange Filoso
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Direct Measurement ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Environmental Markets ◽  
New Science ◽  
Restoration Success ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Biophysical Processes

Ecological restoration is an activity that ideally results in the return of an ecosystem to an undisturbed state. Ecosystem services are the benefits humans derive from ecosystems. The two have been joined to support growing environmental markets with the goal of creating restoration-based credits that can be bought and sold. However, the allure of these markets may be overshadowing shortcomings in the science and practice of ecological restoration. Before making risky investments, we must understand why and when restoration efforts fall short of recovering the full suite of ecosystem services, what can be done to improve restoration success, and why direct measurement of the biophysical processes that support ecosystem services is the only way to guarantee the future success of these markets. Without new science and an oversight framework to protect the ecosystem service assets which people depend, markets could actually accelerate environmental degradation.

scholarly journals Long-term Relationship between Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 06014
Author(s):  
Xia Liyu ◽  
He Wan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Quarterly Data ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
Equilibrium Relationship ◽  
Secondary Industry ◽  
The Relationship

Electricity is an indispensable material basis for economic development. It is necessary to study the relationship between different electricity consumption and economic growth. Based on the quarterly data of China’s electricity consumption and economic development from 2011 to 2018, the long-term equilibrium relationship between variables are analyzed from a causal perspective, and electricity consumption indicators for reflecting economic development are identified. The results show that there is a long-term equilibrium relationship between secondary industry electricity consumption, industrial electricity consumption and GDP. The demand for electricity consumption still needs to be met urgently.

scholarly journals Effects of China's Ecological Restoration on Economic Development Based on Night-Time Light and NDVI Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Li ◽  
Xueyi Shi ◽  
Qing Qing Wu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Vegetation Coverage ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Night Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Night Lights ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Correctly understanding and handling the relationship between economic development and environment protection is an eternal subject for human society. Based on the panel data of 31 provincial administrative units in China from 2000 to 2013, this study used Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Night-Time Light data to characterize the effect of ecological restoration practices and economic development respectively, and made an empirical study on the impact of ecological restoration on economic development by means of trend analysis, panel regression model and sub-sample analysis. The results showed that the spatial distribution of Night-Time Light was high in the east and low in the west, and the NDVI in the northwest of the Hu Line was generally low, while the southeast was higher. During the 14 years from 2000 to 2013, the overall vegetation coverage showed an upward trend, and the area with stable night lights accounted for the largest proportion. The influence of NDVI on Night-Time Light presented an inverted U-shaped relationship, which meant that the negative influence of the former on the latter was not an inevitable result but its periodic performance. In the process of economic development, there was an optimal value of vegetation coverage. The increase in vegetation coverage had a negative impact on the economic development of the eastern region, but it was beneficial to the central and western regions. In the future, the government should strengthen protection and restoration of ecosystem, promote high-level protection of environment and high-quality development with efficient environmental and economic policies, and differentiate the relationship between development and ecology in the eastern, central and western regions.

scholarly journals More employers, more jobs, more money: An empirical analysis of local economic development policy impacts in US cities

2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Strother
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Economic Development Policy ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Us Cities

Local government leaders in the U. S. employ a multitude of programs and policies in the name of economic development to increase the number of firms, employment, wages, and, of course, the tax base. The past few decades have seen a surge in local economic development policies, yet research analyzing their effectiveness is sparse. This study analyzes the relationship between local economic development policy and economic growth in a data set of 412 U. S. cities. Results indicate that policy has only has a weak correlation with economic growth, suggesting that growth is determined more by market conditions rather than government intervention. The article concludes with an entrepreneurial policy approach this author believes may yield development results in an era of limited policy effectiveness.

scholarly journals Water Bodies’ Cooling Effects on Urban Land Daytime Surface Temperature: Ecosystem Service Reducing Heat Island Effect

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhijie Wu ◽  
Yixin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Cooling Effects ◽  
The Relationship

The urban heat island (UHI) effect caused by urbanization is a major environmental concern. Utilizing cooling effects of water bodies as one type of ecosystem service is an important way to mitigate UHI in urban areas during the daytime. This study aims to examine the influence of water bodies’ cooling effects on the urban land surface temperature (LST). The potential influence on the relationship between urban land cover and the LST are also discussed. The daytime LST in April was retrieved from Landsat-8 thermal infrared band and the grid-based method was adopted to analyze the potential influence. The results indicated that Suzhou Bay is broadly capable of lowering daytime temperatures. The cooling distance can reach 800 m in horizontal space, and the maximum cooling effect was 3.02 °C. Furthermore, the distance to the Suzhou Bay is a great factor for the relationship between land cover and the LST. We found that the cooling effects have weakened the correct quantitative correlation between land cover (e.g., green space and impervious surface) and the LST, particularly green space in the range of 200 m. In addition, the cooling effects have strengthened the “cool edge” phenomenon when analyzing the relationship between the normal difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the LST. We suggest that the distance to the water bodies should be effectively utilized in the microclimate regulation provided by ecosystem services of water bodies. When investigating the thermal effects of urban land, urban planners and designers should consider water bodies’ effects on surrounding areas. These findings have implications for understanding the role of water bodies with ecosystem services of temperature mitigation, which must be fully appreciated for sustainable urban and landscape planning.

scholarly journals Research on the Relationship between Business Cycle and Industrial Fluctuations in Northeast China Based on Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Yinan Zhou ◽  
Guofeng Gu ◽  
Qiushuang Ren
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Secondary Industry ◽  
Adaptive Noise ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Relationship

The Chinese economy has developed rapidly since the reform and opening up, but economic growth in Northeast China has declined dramatically after the 21st century. In this context, exploring the characteristics of economic and industrial fluctuations in the northeast of China and their relationship is beneficial to alleviating economic fluctuations and promoting stable economic development from the perspective of industrial development. The relationship between economic and industrial fluctuations in the three provinces of Northeast China was reexamined from the angle of fluctuation components with the complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN) algorithm. The results obtained are as follows: (1) In the three northeastern provinces of China, economic fluctuations were almost free from the influence of the primary industry, most affected by the secondary industry, and gradually influenced by the tertiary industry after the 21st century. (2) Regarding the short-term business cycle of each province, economic development was the most stable when the market and government participated in the development of the secondary industry simultaneously. (3) The midterm business cycle of Jilin Province was affected by the investment of equipment in secondary and tertiary industries, while that of Liaoning Province was affected by the investment of equipment in the secondary industry. (4) Investment in the equipment of the secondary industry and the construction of secondary and tertiary industries was the key to maintaining the stability of long-term business cycle in Heilongjiang Province, and that in the construction of secondary and tertiary industries was the key to maintaining the stability of long-term business cycles in Jilin and Liaoning Provinces.

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