Global mapping and estimation of ecosystem services values and gross domestic product: A spatially explicit integration of national ‘green GDP’ accounting

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 293-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangdong Li ◽  
Chuanglin Fang
Author(s):  
Jie Xu ◽  
Yu Xiao ◽  
Gaodi Xie ◽  
Lin Zhen ◽  
Yangyang Wang ◽  
...  

Ecosystem services are closely linked to human welfare. The flow of ecosystem service can establish spatio-temporal relationships between ecosystem service provision areas (SPAs) and service beneficiary areas (SBAs). In this study, the Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model was used to simulate the spatial flow path of the wind erosion prevention (WEP) service in Yanchi County. The frequency at which the simulated trajectories passed through each grid cell was used as a proxy for spatio-temporal disparities in SBAs, and the distribution of benefitting land cover, population, and gross domestic product (GDP) reflected the effects of the WEP flow. The flow paths of the Yanchi County WEP in 2010 mainly extended to eastern and central China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, and eastern Russia, and were more intensive and longer in spring and winter than in autumn and winter. The SBAs covered an area of 1153.2 × 104 km2 in 2010, with dominant service beneficiary areas (DSBAs) comprising 185.1 × 104 km2 and accounting for 16.1% of the total beneficiary area of the year. The areas through which the flow paths passed with a high frequency (≥10%) were mainly located in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, western Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, and northern Hubei, and the spatial scale of these areas varied, demonstrating obvious seasonal changes, and was the largest in spring. The benefitting land cover was mainly cropland across all of the SBAs, with one billion benefitting people (accounting for 77.11% of the total population of China) associated with a gross domestic product (GDP) of 26.8 trillion RMB (Chinese currency; as of 2018-06-22, 6.497 RMB = US $1, accounting for 87.90% of the total GDP of China). Furthermore, the population and socio-economic development in the DSBAs (21 million people and 0.53 trillion RMB GDP) were no longer affected by wind erosion from Yanchi County. This study revealed the spatio-temporal disparities of the SBAs of WEP in Yanchi County from an ecosystem services flow perspective and provides a scientific and effective basis for policymakers to perform standard ecological compensation accounting and to formulate ecological protection policies.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting Wang ◽  
Fubao Sun

Abstract. The increasing demand of ScenarioMIP is calling for GDP projections of high resolution for the future Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) in both socioeconomic development and in climate change of adaption and mitigation research. While to date the global GDP projections for five SSPs are mainly provided at national scales, and the gridded data set are very limited. Meanwhile, the historical GDP can be disaggregated using nighttime light (NTL) images but the results are not open accessed, making it cumbersome in climate change impact and socioeconomic risk assessments across research disciplines. To this end, we produce a set of spatially explicit global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that presents substantial long-term changes of economic activities for both historical period (2005 as representative) and for future projections under all five SSPs with a spatial resolution of 30 arc-seconds. Chinese population in SSP database were first replaced by the projections under the two-children policy implemented since 2016 and then used to spatialize global GDP using NTL images and gridded population together as fixed base map, which outperformed at subnational scales. The GDP data are consistent with projections from the SSPs and are freely available at http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4350027 (Wang and Sun, 2020). We also provide another set of spatially explicit GDP using the global LandScan population as fixed base map, which is recommended at county or even smaller scales where NTL images are limited. Our results highlight the necessity and availability of using gridded GDP projections with high resolution for scenario-based climate change research and socioeconomic development that are consistent with all five SSPs.


Author(s):  
Agnė JOTAUTAITĖ ◽  
Eglė JOTAUTIENĖ

In this paper, export opportunities of textile products from Turkey to Lithuania are analyzed. The main goal of this article is to present an analysis of the opportunities to import textile products from Turkey to Lithuania. The empirical research basing on the statistical database analysis was used. The analysis of Turkey’s markets was showed that the economy is strongly dependent on exports of various products from Turkey and it is about one forth of Turkey’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product). The bulk of exports from Turkey is t o countries in the European Union. Turkey is one of the world’s largest manufacturers and exporters of textiles. The analysis of Lithuanian markets was indicated that Lithuania has a feasible market for imports due to its fast growing GDP, increasing labor wages and modernization of agriculture industry. Furthermore, advantageous and adequate policies of Lithuania’s foreign trade should encourage the development of imports to this country. The demand for textile products in Lithuania is growing rapidly and it is one of the most important sectors in fostering its economy


2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Ersalina Tang

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of Foreign Direct Investment, Gross Domestic Product, Energy Consumption, Electric Consumption, and Meat Consumption on CO2 emissions of 41 countries in the world using panel data from 1999 to 2013. After analyzing 41 countries in the world data, furthermore 17 countries in Asia was analyzed with the same period. This study utilized quantitative approach with Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression method. The results of 41 countries in the world data indicates that Foreign Direct Investment, Gross Domestic Product, Energy Consumption, and Meat Consumption significantlyaffect Environmental Qualities which measured by CO2 emissions. Whilst the results of 17 countries in Asia data implies that Foreign Direct Investment, Energy Consumption, and Electric Consumption significantlyaffect Environmental Qualities. However, Gross Domestic Product and Meat Consumption does not affect Environmental Qualities.


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