Urban soil is the main component of urban ecological systems and the key risk receptor from urbanization. Heavy metal and green pesticide pollutions in urban soils have been widely reported with the expanding of urban...Urban soil is the main component of urban ecological systems and the key risk receptor from urbanization. Heavy metal and green pesticide pollutions in urban soils have been widely reported with the expanding of urbanization. Since urban soil pollution comes from various resources, application of integrated thinking and methods is needed in ecological risk assessment of urban soil pollution. This paper synthetically reviewed the combined pollution of heavy metals and pesticide, and ecological risk assessment, and then proposed some research trends and areas in the future that are required to carry out intensively according to the present situation of environmental pollution and international research fronts.展开更多
Climate change will alter the capacity of carbon sequestration,and the risk assessment of carbon sequestration for terrestrial ecosystems will be helpful to the decision-making for climate change countermeasures and i...Climate change will alter the capacity of carbon sequestration,and the risk assessment of carbon sequestration for terrestrial ecosystems will be helpful to the decision-making for climate change countermeasures and international climate negotiations.Based on the net ecosystem productivity of terrestrial ecosystems simulated by Atmosphere Vegetation Integrated Model,each grid of the risk criterion was set by time series trend analysis.Then the risks of carbon sequestration of terrestrial ecosystems were investigated.The results show that,in the IPCCSRES-B2 climate scenario,climate change will bring risks of carbon sequestration,and the high-risk level will dominate terrestrial ecosystems.The risk would expand with the increase of warming degree.By the end of the long-term of this century,about 60% of the whole country will face the risk;Northwest China,mountainous areas in Northeast China,middle and lower reaches plain of Yangtze River areas,Southwest China and Southeast China tend to be extremely vulnerable.Risk levels in most regions are likely to grow with the increase of warming degree,and this increase will mainly occur during the near-term to mid-term.Northwest China will become an area of high risks,and deciduous coniferous forests,temperate mixed forests and desert grassland tend to be extremely vulnerable.展开更多
Drought is usually supposed to be a rainfall deficiency problem. Most studies and practices to mitigate drought disaster are focusing on water development and irrigation, while neglecting that the agriculture system i...Drought is usually supposed to be a rainfall deficiency problem. Most studies and practices to mitigate drought disaster are focusing on water development and irrigation, while neglecting that the agriculture system is a compounded human-natural system. Drought situation and tendency is also driven by human coping strategies. This paper takes Hebei Province in north China as an example, studing the spirally interact process of drought resisting and hydrological ecological feedback. The result shows that large scale water projects construction facilitated irrigation. With improved irrigation, farmers enhanced multiple crop index and land-use intensity greatly and increased the sowing area of water consuming crop, winter wheat. At the same time, both crop yield and gross output are raising steadily. Water demand and depletion in agricultural system increase year by year. This gradually leads to highly dependent on over exploitation of water resources, especially overdraw of groundwater. The process deteriorated the stability of hydrological-ecological system and made the ecological environment drying up. Drying up environment is breeding greater vulnerability and risk of drought in the long term. For sustainable development, integrated drought risk management should be based on the balance between sustainable water supply and water demand. The key is to improve agricultural system＇s adaptive and resilient capacity to drought.展开更多
The goal of ecological civilization construction is to realize the harmonious coexistence of human and nature.Land is the spatial carrier of ecological civilization construction.Land use types or behaviors reflect the...The goal of ecological civilization construction is to realize the harmonious coexistence of human and nature.Land is the spatial carrier of ecological civilization construction.Land use types or behaviors reflect the level of intensive use of land resources,leading to different ecological environmental effects,thereby affecting the level of regional ecological civilization construction.This issue,"Land Use and Ecological Civilization",discusses the theory and method of land use management in the view of ecological civilization from the aspects of land use efficiency,land use change,land multi-functional trade-off,land ecosystem service and land ecological risk by selecting 14 representative papers,providing practical reference for the formation of the land use mode and behavioral system of ecological civilization.With abundant research levels,this issue covers varied research scales such as village,county and province,various landform types such as plain and hill,and typical land use areas at home and abroad such as East China,Central China,Northwest China,Yangtze River Economic Belt and Japan.Being frontier and practical,the multidisciplinary research methods in this issue include literature research method,fractal theory,qualitative comparative analysis,VAR model,and econometrics,among others.Focusing on the prominent problems in the process of land use,this issue deeply discusses the hot topics such as land ecological efficiency,spatial behavior characteristics,land use structure optimization and ecological risk assessment.This issue not only reviews the current literature on urgent land use issues such as arable land abandonment and land use risk,but also tries to conduct trade-off and synergy analysis on the varied functions of the rural landscape and ecosystem,thus providing a theoretical and empirical basis for solving land use problems from the perspective of ecological civilization.This issue reflects the realistic urgency of guiding land use with the concept of ecological civilization,and provides theoretical guidance and technical support from the aspects of methods and research framework.Finally,this issue proposes five hot topics in the field of land use research from the perspective of ecological civilization in the future,namely,ecological management of land use structure,ecological evolution mechanism of land use process,land ecological use mode,early warning and regulation of land ecological security pattern,ecological management and control of land use behavior.展开更多
The fragility of ecosystem health has become a key factor hindering the sustainable development of the ecological environment. Through a review of published research from domestic and foreign scholars, starting from t...The fragility of ecosystem health has become a key factor hindering the sustainable development of the ecological environment. Through a review of published research from domestic and foreign scholars, starting from the endogenous logic of studies in the field of ecosystem vulnerability(EV), this paper sorts out the literature on the aspects of measurement models, prediction methods and risk assessment, comprehensively defines the research category and scientific framework of EV, and analyzes the research ideas and development trends. We arrived at the following conclusions: 1) The connotation of ecosystem vulnerability not only embodies the change in the vulnerability of the natural environment, but it also reflects the irreversible damage to the ecosystem caused by excessive development and industrial production activities. 2) The setting of ecosystem vulnerability indices should aim to fully reflect the essential features of that vulnerability, which should include the index systems of natural, social, economic and other related factors. 3) There are many types of ecosystem vulnerability measurement methods, prediction models and risk evaluation models, which have different focuses and advantages. The most appropriate method should be adopted for conducting comprehensive and systematic evaluation, prediction and estimation according to the different representation and evolution mechanisms of the chosen research object and regional ecosystem vulnerability. 4) Based on the regional system characteristics, corresponding risk management measures should be proposed, and pertinent policy suggestions should be put forward to improve the ecological safety and sustainable development of an ecologically vulnerable area.展开更多
文摘Urban soil is the main component of urban ecological systems and the key risk receptor from urbanization. Heavy metal and green pesticide pollutions in urban soils have been widely reported with the expanding of urbanization. Since urban soil pollution comes from various resources, application of integrated thinking and methods is needed in ecological risk assessment of urban soil pollution. This paper synthetically reviewed the combined pollution of heavy metals and pesticide, and ecological risk assessment, and then proposed some research trends and areas in the future that are required to carry out intensively according to the present situation of environmental pollution and international research fronts.
文摘Climate change will alter the capacity of carbon sequestration,and the risk assessment of carbon sequestration for terrestrial ecosystems will be helpful to the decision-making for climate change countermeasures and international climate negotiations.Based on the net ecosystem productivity of terrestrial ecosystems simulated by Atmosphere Vegetation Integrated Model,each grid of the risk criterion was set by time series trend analysis.Then the risks of carbon sequestration of terrestrial ecosystems were investigated.The results show that,in the IPCCSRES-B2 climate scenario,climate change will bring risks of carbon sequestration,and the high-risk level will dominate terrestrial ecosystems.The risk would expand with the increase of warming degree.By the end of the long-term of this century,about 60% of the whole country will face the risk;Northwest China,mountainous areas in Northeast China,middle and lower reaches plain of Yangtze River areas,Southwest China and Southeast China tend to be extremely vulnerable.Risk levels in most regions are likely to grow with the increase of warming degree,and this increase will mainly occur during the near-term to mid-term.Northwest China will become an area of high risks,and deciduous coniferous forests,temperate mixed forests and desert grassland tend to be extremely vulnerable.
基金Acknowledgments China National Natural Science Foundation （No. 41171402） and Doctoral Fund of Hebei Normal University （No. 103237）.
文摘Drought is usually supposed to be a rainfall deficiency problem. Most studies and practices to mitigate drought disaster are focusing on water development and irrigation, while neglecting that the agriculture system is a compounded human-natural system. Drought situation and tendency is also driven by human coping strategies. This paper takes Hebei Province in north China as an example, studing the spirally interact process of drought resisting and hydrological ecological feedback. The result shows that large scale water projects construction facilitated irrigation. With improved irrigation, farmers enhanced multiple crop index and land-use intensity greatly and increased the sowing area of water consuming crop, winter wheat. At the same time, both crop yield and gross output are raising steadily. Water demand and depletion in agricultural system increase year by year. This gradually leads to highly dependent on over exploitation of water resources, especially overdraw of groundwater. The process deteriorated the stability of hydrological-ecological system and made the ecological environment drying up. Drying up environment is breeding greater vulnerability and risk of drought in the long term. For sustainable development, integrated drought risk management should be based on the balance between sustainable water supply and water demand. The key is to improve agricultural system＇s adaptive and resilient capacity to drought.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(41971243)The Science and Technology Project of Education Department in Jiangxi Province(GJJ200531)。
文摘The goal of ecological civilization construction is to realize the harmonious coexistence of human and nature.Land is the spatial carrier of ecological civilization construction.Land use types or behaviors reflect the level of intensive use of land resources,leading to different ecological environmental effects,thereby affecting the level of regional ecological civilization construction.This issue,"Land Use and Ecological Civilization",discusses the theory and method of land use management in the view of ecological civilization from the aspects of land use efficiency,land use change,land multi-functional trade-off,land ecosystem service and land ecological risk by selecting 14 representative papers,providing practical reference for the formation of the land use mode and behavioral system of ecological civilization.With abundant research levels,this issue covers varied research scales such as village,county and province,various landform types such as plain and hill,and typical land use areas at home and abroad such as East China,Central China,Northwest China,Yangtze River Economic Belt and Japan.Being frontier and practical,the multidisciplinary research methods in this issue include literature research method,fractal theory,qualitative comparative analysis,VAR model,and econometrics,among others.Focusing on the prominent problems in the process of land use,this issue deeply discusses the hot topics such as land ecological efficiency,spatial behavior characteristics,land use structure optimization and ecological risk assessment.This issue not only reviews the current literature on urgent land use issues such as arable land abandonment and land use risk,but also tries to conduct trade-off and synergy analysis on the varied functions of the rural landscape and ecosystem,thus providing a theoretical and empirical basis for solving land use problems from the perspective of ecological civilization.This issue reflects the realistic urgency of guiding land use with the concept of ecological civilization,and provides theoretical guidance and technical support from the aspects of methods and research framework.Finally,this issue proposes five hot topics in the field of land use research from the perspective of ecological civilization in the future,namely,ecological management of land use structure,ecological evolution mechanism of land use process,land ecological use mode,early warning and regulation of land ecological security pattern,ecological management and control of land use behavior.
基金The National Social Science Fundation of China (17XJY020)The National Natural Science Foundation of China (71963028)The Discipline Construction Project for Ningxia Institutions of Higher Education (Discipline of Theoretical Economics)(NXYLXK2017B04)。
文摘The fragility of ecosystem health has become a key factor hindering the sustainable development of the ecological environment. Through a review of published research from domestic and foreign scholars, starting from the endogenous logic of studies in the field of ecosystem vulnerability(EV), this paper sorts out the literature on the aspects of measurement models, prediction methods and risk assessment, comprehensively defines the research category and scientific framework of EV, and analyzes the research ideas and development trends. We arrived at the following conclusions: 1) The connotation of ecosystem vulnerability not only embodies the change in the vulnerability of the natural environment, but it also reflects the irreversible damage to the ecosystem caused by excessive development and industrial production activities. 2) The setting of ecosystem vulnerability indices should aim to fully reflect the essential features of that vulnerability, which should include the index systems of natural, social, economic and other related factors. 3) There are many types of ecosystem vulnerability measurement methods, prediction models and risk evaluation models, which have different focuses and advantages. The most appropriate method should be adopted for conducting comprehensive and systematic evaluation, prediction and estimation according to the different representation and evolution mechanisms of the chosen research object and regional ecosystem vulnerability. 4) Based on the regional system characteristics, corresponding risk management measures should be proposed, and pertinent policy suggestions should be put forward to improve the ecological safety and sustainable development of an ecologically vulnerable area.
