Practices and opportunities of ecosystem service studies for ecological restoration in China

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• 作者：Shiliang Liu ; Yuhong Dong ; Fangyan Cheng ; Ana Coxixo ; Xiaoyun Hou
• 关键词：Ecological restoration ; Ecosystem service ; Payments for ecosystem services ; Valuation ; China
• 刊名：Sustainability Science
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：11
• 期：6
• 页码：935-944
• 全文大小：2,230 KB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Environment
  Environmental Management
  Climate Change
  Environmental Economics
  Landscape Ecology
  Public Health
  
• 出版者：Springer Japan
• ISSN：1862-4057
• 卷排序：11

文摘

New approaches have emerged in integrating ecosystem services, their structure and function for ecological restoration. As the concept relating with ecosystem services has become widely accepted in last decade in China, its linking with ecological restoration will provide good opportunities and make substantial progress towards sustainable development. By analyzing the traditional ecological restoration procedure in China, we developed a framework of ecological restoration based on ecosystem services valuation. Relevant researches of ecological restoration based on ecosystem services are also carefully reviewed. China’s ecosystem services studies and payments for ecosystem services (PES) experiences were extensively discussed to show the ecological restoration strategy and its change. Two case studies in China were presented to show the framework for ecological restoration based on PES. We suggested that despite the limitations of valuation uncertainties at present, PES could be an opportunity for ecological restoration by evaluating the trade-offs of different stakeholders. In current state in China, challenges and opportunities coexist and scientists should work together in the integrated research of sustainable ecological management and economic development policies.