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

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	Realizing the values of natural capital for inclusive, sustainable development: Informing China's new ecological development strategy
	Zheng, Hua ; Wang, Lijuan ; Peng, Wenjia ; Zhang, Cuiping ; Li, Cong ; Robinson, Brian E.; Wu, Xiaochen ; Kong, Lingqiao ; Li, Ruonan ; Xiao, Yi
刊名	PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
	2019-04-23
卷号	116 期号:17 页码:8623-8628
关键词	ecosystem services green growth natural capital trade-offs poverty alleviation
ISSN号	0027-8424
英文摘要	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.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/42780]
专题	生态环境研究中心_城市与区域生态国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 2.Hainan Acad Environm Sci, Div Ecol Monitoring, Haikou 570206, Hainan, Peoples R China 3.Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Econ & Finance, Xian 710061, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 4.McGill Univ, Dept Geog, Montreal, PQ H3A 0B9, Canada 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, State Key Lab Urban & Reg Ecol, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zheng, Hua,Wang, Lijuan,Peng, Wenjia,et al. Realizing the values of natural capital for inclusive, sustainable development: Informing China's new ecological development strategy[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,2019,116(17):8623-8628.
APA	Zheng, Hua.,Wang, Lijuan.,Peng, Wenjia.,Zhang, Cuiping.,Li, Cong.,...&Daily, Gretchen C..(2019).Realizing the values of natural capital for inclusive, sustainable development: Informing China's new ecological development strategy.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,116(17),8623-8628.
MLA	Zheng, Hua,et al."Realizing the values of natural capital for inclusive, sustainable development: Informing China's new ecological development strategy".PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 116.17(2019):8623-8628.