The Relationship Between Ecosystem Provisioning Services and Urban Economic Resilience in the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China

Qiongrui Zhang, Songjun Xu and Wei Feng ()
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Qiongrui Zhang: School of Tourism Management, Chaohu University, Hefei 238024, China
Songjun Xu: School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Wei Feng: School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

Land, 2025, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: Ecosystem services and economic development are equally important for urban sustainability, and exploring the relationship between ecosystem provisioning services (EPSs) and economic resilience (ER) can provide the key for achieving sustainable synergy between ecology and economy. Taking the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration (PRD) as an example, this paper explores the relationship between EPSs and ER. Four types of EPSs were evaluated using the InVEST model and the statistical yearbook data, and ER was evaluated based on three dimensions: economic structure, economic vitality and economic innovation. The results show that (1) in the PRD, the total water yield was 57,284.04 × 10 6 m 3 , the total grain production was 3,042,988 tons, the total vegetable production was 13,890,149 tons, and the total forestry output value was CNY 11,293.04 million. High-value water yield areas and low-value grain and forestry production areas lie in the PRD core area, while each prefecture-level city has high-value vegetable production areas. (2) The average ER value of the PRD 2020 is 0.32; the ER in the core areas of the PRD and the central urban areas of cities is relatively high. (3) ER was significantly negatively correlated with grain production, vegetable production, and forestry production in PRD and its core area and was positively correlated with water yield. Finally, this study puts forward suggestions for balancing ecological and economic development in urban agglomerations from the aspects of strengthening water conservancy regulation, valuing ecological products, and regional industrial coordination.

Keywords: ecosystem provisioning service; economic resilience; urban sustainability; synergy; Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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