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Managing for urban ecosystem services: the Yongding River ecological corridor
Description
Sustainability requires developing the capacity to manage difficult tradeoffs to advance human livelihoods now and in the future. Decision-makers are recognizing the ecosystem services approach as a useful framework for evaluating tradeoffs associated with environmental change to advance decision-making towards holistic solutions. In this dissertation I conduct an ecosystem services assessment on the Yongding River Ecological Corridor in Beijing, China. I developed a `10-step approach' to evaluate multiple ecosystem services for public policy. I use the 10-step approach to evaluate five ecosystem services for management from the Yongding Corridor. The Beijing government created lakes and wetlands for five services (human benefits): (1) water storage (groundwater recharge), (2) local climate regulation (cooling), (3) water purification (water quality), (4) dust control (air quality), and (5) landscape aesthetics (leisure, recreation, and economic development).
The Yongding Corridor is meeting the final ecosystem service levels for landscape aesthetics, but the new ecosystems are falling short on meeting final ecosystem service levels for water storage, local climate regulation, water purification, and dust control. I used biophysical models (process-based and empirically-based), field data (biophysical and visitor surveys), and government datasets to create ecological production functions (i.e., regression models). I used the ecological production functions to evaluate how marginal changes in the ecosystems could impact final ecosystem service outcomes. I evaluate potential tradeoffs considering stakeholder needs to recommend synergistic actions for addressing priorities while reducing service shortfalls.
The Yongding Corridor is meeting the final ecosystem service levels for landscape aesthetics, but the new ecosystems are falling short on meeting final ecosystem service levels for water storage, local climate regulation, water purification, and dust control. I used biophysical models (process-based and empirically-based), field data (biophysical and visitor surveys), and government datasets to create ecological production functions (i.e., regression models). I used the ecological production functions to evaluate how marginal changes in the ecosystems could impact final ecosystem service outcomes. I evaluate potential tradeoffs considering stakeholder needs to recommend synergistic actions for addressing priorities while reducing service shortfalls.
Date Created
2014
Contributors
- Wong, Christina P (Author)
- Kinzig, Ann P (Thesis advisor)
- Lee, Kai N. (Committee member)
- Muneepeerakul, Rachata (Committee member)
- Ouyang, Zhiyun (Committee member)
- Vivoni, Enrique (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Environmental sciences
- Ecology
- Environmental Management
- Ecosystem Services
- Environmental policy
- Sustainability
- Ecosystem management--Environmental aspects--China--Beijing.
- Ecosystem Management
- Ecosystem management--Economic aspects--China--Beijing.
- Ecosystem Management
- Public lands--China--Beijing--Management.
- Public lands
- Human ecology--China--Yongding River.
- Human ecology
- Human ecology--China--Beijing.
- Human ecology
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Resource Type
Extent
xxx, 389 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
Language
eng
chi
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.26883
Statement of Responsibility
by Christina P. Wong
Description Source
Viewed on June 12, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2014
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-308)
language
Chiefly English with some Chinese
Field of study: Sustainability
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