“Targets-Plans-Decision”: A framework to identify the size of protected areas based on the balance of ecological protection and economic development

2022 ◽  
Vol 304 ◽  
pp. 114302
Author(s):  
Chaoyue Yu ◽  
Yang Gao ◽  
Chenxu Wang ◽  
Tianqian Chen ◽  
Jiabin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Ecological Protection

Ecotourism in Protected Areas

2019 ◽  
pp. 22-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaunette M. Sinclair-Maragh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Resources

This chapter explores the role of ecotourism in the sustainable development of protected areas. It specifically examines the aims of ecotourism in simultaneously contributing to economic development and environmental sustainability in protected areas. The chapter further analyzes protected areas within the ecological, human, and institutional dimensions, and demonstrates how the outcomes of ecotourism are linked to the economic, social, and environmental pillars that drive sustainable development. The chapter also discusses challenges surrounding the sustainability of ecotourism in protected areas and several mitigation strategies. It concludes that while ecotourism aims for economic development it can have detrimental effects on the ecological resources and host communities if not managed in a strategic sustainable way. The chapter recommends that ecotourism in protected areas should be carried out within the realm of environmental justice where all stakeholders and the natural environment are treated with respect and equity.

scholarly journals Coupling between Carbon Efficiency and Technology Absorptive Capacity—A Case Study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Jiang ◽  
Chuiyong Zheng ◽  
Chao Liu ◽  
Wenjian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
Carbon Efficiency ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Foreign Capital Flows ◽  
Middle Stream

Regional carbon efficiency (CE) improvement is critical to China’s “taking concerted efforts to achieve ecological protection” strategy in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) and their program to build a leading demonstration belt for ecological civilization. This study applied the super efficiency slacks-based measure to calculate the regional differences and evolution characteristics of the YREB’s CE from the year of 2006 to 2017. It also constructed a coupling evaluation model to empirically analyze the interactions between CE and technology absorptive capacity (TAC). The results showed that (1) the CE for all YREB provinces followed a “U-shaped” trend. TAC generally increased and incrementally decreased in the sequence of the upper stream, middle stream, and downstream. The gap among the downstream, upper stream, and middle stream increased; (2) coupling between the CE and TAC for the YREB provinces can be characterized as a relatively stable medium to low coupling degree and medium-to-high coordination degree. To improve coupling and achieve balanced, sustainable development in the YREB, this study proposes several measures, including promoting balanced, high-quality economic development, building the YREB talent pool, appropriately guiding foreign capital flows, implementing the strategy of driving economic development through innovation, and launching the network for coordinated technological innovation in YREB.

Can Environmental Protection in Ecological Functional Zones Break Free from the Constraints of Focusing Just on Economic Benefits? — A Case Study of the Plateau Ecological Zone’s Tiamitcheen

2018 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850018
Author(s):  
Wei JIANG
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Functional Zones

Following the 2015 publication and revision of the 2008 National Ecological Functional Division, China, in 2017, added 240 counties (cities, districts, and banners) to its national key ecological functional zone system. Ecological functional zones, in practice, are often caught in a dilemma between environmental protection and economic development, with actions aimed at the promotion of locally-based economic advances frequently conflicting with the goals of ecological functional divisions. To investigate this dilemma, the paper selected Tiamitcheen County in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, a key ecological function zone, as the site for a field investigation, case study. The primary methodologies applied in this study included a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews. Based on the observation of three main reasons for the dilemma between environmental protection and economic development, the author proposed that ecological functional zones should be further subdivided based on the National Ecological Functional Division according to the zones’ respective characteristics at the local level. More efforts should also go into better specifying the scope of ecological “red lines”, and to the demarcation of the boundaries of ecological functional core zones, buffer zones, and experimental zones. This would help in the formulation of local development planning, while at the same time increasing the support directed to ecological protection zones. In addition, “differentiated” and “greening” zoning assessment mechanisms should also be fully implemented, whereby different assessment factors and weights are established according to the characteristics of the different functional zones. An expanded array of economic indicators should also be delineated, which more specifically indicates the differences between ecological functional zones and other functional zones. This would, via a “differentiated” and “green” assessment system, help to ease the conflicts arising between local governments’ efforts at both economic promotion and ecological protection. Within ecological functional zones, it would also encourage local governments to break through the need to adhere strictly to efforts at economic promotion so as to ensure ecological security.

scholarly journals The conservation costs and economic benefits of using biodiversity offsets to meet international targets for protected area expansion

Oryx ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 732-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Falko T. Buschke ◽  
Susie Brownlie ◽  
Jeff Manuel
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
Biodiversity Offsets ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Conservation Costs ◽  
Area Expansion

AbstractAichi Biodiversity Target 11 under the Convention on Biological Diversity sets out to conserve at least 17% of terrestrial area by 2020. However, few countries are on track to meet this target and it is uncertain whether developing countries have allocated sufficient resources to expand their protected areas. Biodiversity offsets could resolve this conservation shortfall if developers who affect biodiversity negatively at one locality are made responsible for its protection elsewhere. Here we simulate the use of biodiversity offsetting to expand protected area coverage in South Africa's grassland biome. South Africa's biodiversity offsets policy has been designed specifically to compensate for the residual loss of biodiversity caused by development, by establishing and managing protected areas within the same ecosystem type. We show that it is possible to meet protected area targets using only offsets, while facilitating economic development. However, doing so could slash the current extent of intact habitat by half. These losses could be reduced considerably should the gains in protected areas through offsetting supplement rather than supplant existing government commitments to protected area expansion. Moreover, supplementing existing government commitments would result in comparatively small reductions in potential economic gains, because the marginal economic benefit of transforming habitat decreases as more intact habitat is lost. Therefore, the intended role of biodiversity offsetting in achieving a country's protected area target should be made explicit to fully understand the associated trade-offs between conservation and economic development.

scholarly journals Regional Agriculture Coupling Coordination Analysis Based on Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Sichuan, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 02014
Author(s):  
Fumin Deng ◽  
Siyuan Jia ◽  
Qunxi Gong
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
National Development ◽  
Sichuan Province ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Production Economic

As a basic industry for national development, the development of agriculture will reduce food insecurity, get rid of resource dependence and achieve broader development. This paper constructs a four-dimensional measurement system of food production, economic development, ecological protection, and social progress by considering food security. Comprehensive agricultural development in Sichuan Province from 2004 to 2018 was evaluated by using improved entropy method and coupling coordination degree model (CCD). The study found that: (1) From 2004 to 2018, comprehensive development of the four subsystems in Sichuan agriculture are different, ecological protection (9.62%) > social progress (3.34%)> economic development (2.61%)> food production (-0.44%); (2) The comprehensive development level of agriculture in Sichuan Province had been continuously improved from 2004 to 2018, with obvious phase characteristics; (3) The coordination development among subsystems advanced in volatility, which is adjusted from the medium to the optimal level of coordination. Finally, based on the above conclusions, Sichuan agricultural sustainable development can be improved from the perspective of food production, economic development and social progress on the basis of ecological protection.

scholarly journals Traditional and modern wildlife conservation in Malawi – the need for an integrated approach

Oryx ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon M. Munthali
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Local People ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government

Traditional wildlife conservation has remained effective in Malawi for more than a century despite great cultural changes. The modern approach, based on a system of protected areas controlled by the government, has been less effective. It has failed to gain the support of local people and the result has been much illicit encroachment into protected areas. For the future, a solution needs to be found that integrates modern and traditional conservation with rural economic development.

Measuring on the Sustainable Development in Ecotone: A Case Study of Dalate County in Inner Mongolia Province

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 3403-3410
Author(s):  
Yang Yang Du ◽  
Yu Xin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Capacity ◽  
Ecosystem Services Value ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Coordinating the relationship between economic development and ecological protection, a series of complex tests have been given to many governments，especialy in ecotone. taking Dalate County for example, the ecological characteristics and the situation economic development are evaluated by an improved ecological footprint model, which is based on emergy analysis theory and ecosystem service function model. The calculating results indicate that the ecological footprint of Dalate County is 3.9×106hm2 in total annualy, the actual output ecological capacity is 2.04×106hm2. There is a huge gap between ecological footprint and ecological capacity. The total ecosystem services value is 1.01×1010 CNY•a. And among all types land, woodland contributes the greatest, which is 4.19×109 CNY•a. Among all kinds service, regulation service take the largest proportion, which value is 5.53×109 CNY•a. Those results can be used to guide ecological protection and economic development in ecotones, like Dalate County in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document