Optimizing the Production-Living-Ecological Space for Reducing the Ecosystem Services Deficit

Xinxin Fu, Xiaofeng Wang, Jitao Zhou and Jiahao Ma
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Xinxin Fu: School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
Xiaofeng Wang: School of Land Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
Jitao Zhou: School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
Jiahao Ma: School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-17

Abstract: With rapid urbanization and industrialization, China’s metropolises have undergone a huge shift in land use, which has had a profound impact on the ecological environment. Accordingly, the contradictions between regional production, living, and ecological spaces have intensified. The study of the optimization of production-living-ecological space (PLES) is crucial for the sustainable use of land resources and regional socio-economic development. However, research on the optimization of land patterns based on PLES is still being explored, and a unified technical framework for integrated optimization has yet to be developed. Ecosystem services (ES), as a bridge between people and nature, provide a vehicle for the interlinking of elements of the human-land system coupling. The integration of ES supply and demand into ecosystem assessments can enhance the policy relevance and practical application of the ES concept in land management and is also conducive to achieving ecological security and safeguarding human well-being. In this study, an integrated framework comprising four core steps was developed to optimize the PLES in such a way that all ecosystem services are in surplus as far as possible. It was also applied to a case study in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Basin. A regression analysis between ES and PLES was used to derive equilibrium thresholds for the supply and demand of ES. The ternary phase diagram method was used to determine the direction and magnitude of the optimization of the PLES, and finally, the corresponding optimization recommendations were made at different scales.

Keywords: land-use transition; production-living-ecological space; spatial mismatch; balance threshold; ES management strategies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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