Evaluating the net value of ecosystem services to support ecological engineering: Framework and a case study of the Beijing Plains afforestation project

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.12.017

	Evaluating the net value of ecosystem services to support ecological engineering: Framework and a case study of the Beijing Plains afforestation project
	Yu, Zhongqi 1,2; Liu, Xu 2; Zhang, Junze 3; Xu, Duanyang 4; Cao, Shixiong 1
刊名	ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
	2018-03-01
卷号	112 页码:148-152
关键词	Ecosystem services Ecological engineering Scale effects Marginal changes Net benefits Uncertainty analysis
ISSN号	0925-8574
DOI	10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.12.017
通讯作者	Cao, Shixiong(shixiongcao@126.com)
英文摘要	Ecological services were initially used to quantify the benefits used in valuation of environmental protection, as they helped stakeholders to understand the benefits that ecosystems bring to people. As a result, they increased support for ecological engineering, including ecosystem restoration. However, by failing to account for costs, and particularly for indirect costs such as the tradeoffs among ecosystem services under different land uses, the analyses were incomplete and often provided poor support for policy development and land management to promote environmental conservation. In this paper, we provide a framework for assessing the net value of the benefits provided by ecosystem services (i.e., the benefit that remains after subtracting key costs), taking the Beijing Plains afforestation project as an example. Furthermore, we analyzed the importance of scale effects and marginal changes in ecosystem services assessment, and highlighted the uncertainty of evaluation results caused by basing some of the analysis on market prices, which can change unpredictably. To better support conservation activities and maximize the ecological benefits obtained from an environmental strategy, it's necessary to obtain accurate estimates of the net value of ecosystem services by accounting for an increasing range of direct and indirect costs, calculated at the same scale as the project implementation and accounting for marginal changes, thereby providing better support for policy development and implementation.
资助项目	National Key Technology R D Program[2016YFC0501002]
WOS关键词	CONSERVATION ; CHINA
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Engineering
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
WOS记录号	WOS:000424938300018
资助机构	National Key Technology R D Program
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/57104]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Cao, Shixiong
作者单位	1.Minzu Univ China, Sch Econ, 27 Zhongguancun South St, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China 2.Beijing Forestry Univ, Coll Econ Management, 35 Qinghuadong Rd, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China 3.Beijing Normal Univ, Fac Geog Sci, 19 Xinjiekouwai St, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yu, Zhongqi,Liu, Xu,Zhang, Junze,et al. Evaluating the net value of ecosystem services to support ecological engineering: Framework and a case study of the Beijing Plains afforestation project[J]. ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,2018,112:148-152.
APA	Yu, Zhongqi,Liu, Xu,Zhang, Junze,Xu, Duanyang,&Cao, Shixiong.(2018).Evaluating the net value of ecosystem services to support ecological engineering: Framework and a case study of the Beijing Plains afforestation project.ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,112,148-152.
MLA	Yu, Zhongqi,et al."Evaluating the net value of ecosystem services to support ecological engineering: Framework and a case study of the Beijing Plains afforestation project".ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 112(2018):148-152.