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Ecosystem Service, Human Wellbeing and Policy Implications

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 4669

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Dr. Wei Liu

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College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
Interests: ecosystem services; human wellbeing; urban ecological management; territorial spatial planning
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Prof. Dr. Chengxin Wang

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School of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
Interests: urban spatial structure; regional development and industrial planning
Dr. Fan Zhang

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: resources and environmental management; global change and regional development; urban ecological management; carbon emission and reduction
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Ecosystem services connect the natural environment with human society, which is vital for human wellbeing. Ecosystems have been continuously deteriorating as a result of global climate change and human interference in recent decades. The global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services released by IPBES in 2019 reported that 14 of the 18 categories of ecosystem services have declined since 1970. Conversely, with the population increase and improvement in living standards, the human demands of ecosystem services increased sharply. Thus, the balance between ES supply and demand is getting worse. Governments of different countries took some measures (e.g., ecological restoration programs) to improve important ESs and manage ecological concerns. However, these measures can cause marked unintended consequences. The research of ecosystem services becomes very important to determine management measures and promote the sustainability of ecosystems.

This Special Issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) is aimed at giving an overview of the most recent advances in the field of ecosystem services and sustainable development. New research papers, reviews, case reports and conference papers are welcome to this Issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Ecosystem service supply, demand and flow
  • Driving mechanisms of ecosystem service change
  • Relationship among ecosystem services
  • Ecosystem health, vulnerability and resilience
  • Model simulation and scenario analysis
  • Ecological compensation, optimization of ecological security pattern
  • Sustainable management policy implications for different ecosystem services.

Dr. Wei Liu
Prof. Dr. Chengxin Wang
Dr. Fan Zhang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • ecosystem services and human wellbeing
  • ecosystem service demand
  • ecosystem service synergies/tradeoffs
  • ecosystem service flow
  • ecosystem vulnerability and resilience
  • ecological compensation
  • bringing ecosystem service into policy decision
  • driving mechanism of ecosystem service change

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Coupling and Coordinating Relationship between Agricultural Eco-Efficiency and Food Security System in China
by Ruixue Wang, Jiancheng Chen and Minhuan Li
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 431; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010431 - 27 Dec 2022
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Carbon peaking, carbon neutrality goals and food security are the basis of sustainable development, and exploring the coordination relationship between China’s agricultural eco-efficiency and food security system has a major significance for the implementation of relevant strategies. This paper is based on collaboration [...] Read more.
Carbon peaking, carbon neutrality goals and food security are the basis of sustainable development, and exploring the coordination relationship between China’s agricultural eco-efficiency and food security system has a major significance for the implementation of relevant strategies. This paper is based on collaboration research on the synergistic relationship between agricultural eco-efficiency and food security systems using methods such as entropy weight method, coupling coordination model, spatial autocorrelation model, etc., revealing the evolution-driven mechanism of the coupling coordination degree. This study found that a higher level of coupling coordination always occurs in those areas with high standard farmland construction and large grain production scale, while economically developed areas appear to have a lower overall coordination level limited by endowment constraints and division of labor in development planning. It shows a positive spatial correlation in terms of geographical distance between agricultural eco-efficiency and food security, and the positive spillover effect gradually increases but is not strong overall. China should combine regional resource endowment and development planning, pay attention to the improvement of large-scale and standardized agricultural production, continue to strengthen the development of clean agricultural production, and achieve food security under the constraints of the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. Full article
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Ecosystem Health Evaluation and Ecological Security Patterns Construction Based on VORSD and Circuit Theory: A Case Study in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region in Chongqing, China
by Zhenzhen Yuan, Weijie Li, Yong Wang, Dayun Zhu, Qiuhong Wang, Yan Liu and Lingyan Zhou
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 320; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010320 - 25 Dec 2022
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Constructing ecological security patterns (ESPs) is an important approach to maintaining regional ecological security and achieving sustainable development. Most previous studies on ESPs mainly focused on the supply of ecosystem services (ESs) yet did not fully consider the ecosystem health and human demand [...] Read more.
Constructing ecological security patterns (ESPs) is an important approach to maintaining regional ecological security and achieving sustainable development. Most previous studies on ESPs mainly focused on the supply of ecosystem services (ESs) yet did not fully consider the ecosystem health and human demand for ESs, which lacked evaluation from the perspective of human nature. Therefore, based on ecosystem health and ESs demand, this paper constructed the “vigor, organization, resilience, ESs supply-demand ratio” (VORSD) ecosystem health evaluation system and combined it with circuit theory to develop a new and comprehensive ESPs identification framework. Taking the Three Gorges Reservoir Area in Chongqing section (TGRAC) as a case study, the results showed that the general ecosystem health of the TGRAC was not optimistic, and there was still a long way to go for ecological treatment and restoration. From the perspective of spatial distribution, there were significant differences in the ecosystem health between regions, and the eastern region was higher than the western region. The ecological sources area of the TGRAC was about 25,350.16 km2, mainly distributed in the northeast and southeast of forestland, grassland, and cultivated land. The total length of ecological corridors was 2291.41 km, linking the northeastern, southeastern, middle, and southwestern regions of the TGRAC. There were 82 ecological nodes and 30 ecological barriers, most of which were concentrated on the construction land and cultivated land in the southwest and should be regarded as priority areas for ecological conservation. The research results verify the regional suitability and rationality of integrating the VORSD model and circuit theory to construct ESPs, which can provide an important reference for regional ecological protection and land use pattern optimization. Full article
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