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Ai Z, Yao Y, Dang X, Li X, Hou M, Deng Y, Xiao L, Li T, Wang T. Study on the trade-off/synergy between ecosystem services and human well-being based on land use in Weinan City, China. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2024; 31:13549-13562. [PMID: 38253832 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-31933-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Change of land use have important impacts on ecosystem services (ESs) and human well-being (HWB), yet the trade-off/synergy among land use, ESs, and HWB has still not received sufficient attention at city regional scales level. Weinan City in the southern of the Loess Plateau of China was taken as the study area. Based on ArcGIS, InVEST model, and RUSLE model, the characteristics of spatial and temporal variations of land use and ESs from 2000 to 2020 were analyzed, and the trade-off/synergy relationship between land use, ESs, and HWB was quantified using correlation analysis. The results indicated that the area of cultivated land decreased significantly and the area of built-up land increased significantly from 2000 to 2020 in Weinan City. The grain production, soil conservation, and water yield functions showed an increasing trend, which was a synergistic relationship with HWB. Carbon storage and habitat quality functions showed a decreasing trend, which was a trade-off relationship with HWB. The index value of HWB has increased significantly, mainly in the added value of agricultural and rural per capita income. Land use intensity has a trade-off relationship with GP, WY functions, and HWB. There are many factors that affect this trade-off/synergy relationship, such as land use patterns, economic development, and population growth. The study can provide a theoretical basis for the sustainable development of regional economy and nature.
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- Zemin Ai
- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Geology and Environment, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Eco-Hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710054, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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Moreno Vargas DC, Quiñones Hoyos CDP, Hernández Manrique OL. The water-energy-food nexus in biodiversity conservation: A systematic review around sustainability transitions of agricultural systems. Heliyon 2023; 9:e17016. [PMID: 37519675 PMCID: PMC10375560 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023] Open
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The Water Energy Food nexus is a powerful topic in agricultural systems to elucidate threats to biodiversity conservation and culture. This paper aimed to recapitulate nexus thinking research, focusing on social-ecological transitions of agriculture systems and biodiversity management within the Water-Energy-Food nexus. We developed a systematic review and a bibliometric analysis derived from 529 documents in the Scopus database. The ToS method identified a total of 81 relevant information in the sample of documents (529) categorised into roots (10), trunks (9) and leaves (62). This review paper situates types, focus, and highlights regarding biodiversity and prevalent thematic research areas such as "Food Nexus", "Environmental Flows", "Sustainability", "Transitions", and "Governance". Our results suggest that future research should focus on the nexus of "Water-Energy-Food-Biodiversity" and propose a transdisciplinary approach to elucidate the state of sustainability transitions in the agricultural systems at the landscape level. It could increase stakeholder interest in conservation, and sustainability management, to reverse biodiversity losses in ecosystems.
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- Diana C. Moreno Vargas
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia
- Transnational Centre for Just Transitions in Energy, Climate and Sustainability – TRAJECTS, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
- Ph.D. Student in Environmental Studies, Instituto de Estudios Ambientales, Faculty of Engineering. Research Group in Economy, Environment, and Development Alternatives, Colombia
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- Basque Centre for Climate Change - BC3, Bilbao, Spain
- Red de Investigadores en Ecohidrología y Ecohidráulica (REDECOHH), Bogotá, Colombia
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Zhu H, Su D, Yao F. Spatio-Temporal Differences in Economic Security of the Prefecture-Level Cities in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Region of China: Based on a Triple-Dimension Analytical Framework of Economic Geography. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:10605. [PMID: 36078319 PMCID: PMC9518529 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191710605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Revised: 08/20/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The assessment of regional economic security (RES) is mainly based on the theoretical ideas of political economy and marginalism, and the research areas are mainly concentrated in European and American countries/regions, especially Eastern Europe. Taking the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China as an example, this paper constructs a triple-dimensional analytical framework, resources, and environmental-economic foundation-driving forces, based on the institutional approach of economic geography, with the purpose of making up for the deficiency of the extant literature, which pays little attention to regional characteristics and the dynamic mechanism concerning RES, and to provide a tool to identify key factors affecting RES. This paper obtained the main conclusions as follows. (1) The index of the economic security in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is on the rise, and the difference at the level of RES among cities is significant but tends to decrease. (2) There is a significant spatial autocorrelation among cities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in terms of RES. The high-value areas are concentrated along the southeast edge, and the low-value areas are concentrated in the central areas of the west. (3) Despite lower weight values, the weakness of the economic foundation and the fragility of the ecological environment has increasingly hampered the improvement of the economic security in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In terms of driving forces, it is the support of the central government and aid programs of other provinces that contributes to its economic development.
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- Huasheng Zhu
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental Remote Sensing and Digital Cities, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100785, China
- Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100785, China; (D.S.); (F.Y.)
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- Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100785, China; (D.S.); (F.Y.)
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- Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100785, China; (D.S.); (F.Y.)
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