Quantification of ecological compensation for the ecological conservation redline strategy based on target demand: a case study of Jiangsu Province, China
Yan Wang , Feng Tian , Minxia Zhang , Xin Ye , Naifeng Lin , Dayi Lin , Yingying Zhu , Xiaojuan Xu , Jixi Gao
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Abstract
The ecological conservation redline (ECR) strategy is a new model for China’s ecological environmental protection that has attracted increasing attention. Ecological compensation is an effective means to promote ECR management. Although China’s ECR policy has been fully implemented, the ecological compensation mechanism remains underdeveloped, and there is an urgent need to establish a compensation standard accounting framework that meets the requirements of ECR management. This study proposed an ecological compensation accounting framework based on the protection requirements of “no reduction in function, no transformation in nature, and no reduction in area” and took Jiangsu Province, China, as a case study to estimate the ECR compensation standard. The results indicate that ECR policy effectively promotes the protection and restoration of important key ecosystems in this important ecological region. Influenced by factors such as ecosystem service value (ESV) variation, ECR distribution, and socioeconomic considerations, ecological compensation standards differed among cities during the same period. In the long term, ecological compensation standards increased with the ESV net gain and displayed a gradually increasing trend under ECR policy. Currently, the ecological compensation model is mainly organized by the government, and the sources of ecological compensation funds are limited. Government fiscal funds are limit to meet the great need of compensation, and there are serious deficiencies in inter-regional compensation especially for market oriented compensation approach between regions. It is difficult to meet the needs of ecological compensation using existing compensation methods, and diversified compensation methods such as tax exemption compensation, resident resettlement compensation, project construction compensation, resource sharing compensation, and market-oriented compensation should be adopted to improve the ecological compensation mechanism.
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The Journal for Nature Conservation addresses concepts, methods and techniques for nature conservation. This international and interdisciplinary journal encourages collaboration between scientists and practitioners, including the integration of biodiversity issues with social and economic concepts. Therefore, conceptual, technical and methodological papers, as well as reviews, research papers, and short communications are welcomed from a wide range of disciplines, including theoretical ecology, landscape ecology, restoration ecology, ecological modelling, and others, provided that there is a clear connection and immediate relevance to nature conservation.
Manuscripts without any immediate conservation context, such as inventories, distribution modelling, genetic studies, animal behaviour, plant physiology, will not be considered for this journal; though such data may be useful for conservationists and managers in the future, this is outside of the current scope of the journal.