Gauging policy-driven large-scale vegetation restoration programmes under a changing environment: Their effectiveness and socio-economic relationships

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	Gauging policy-driven large-scale vegetation restoration programmes under a changing environment: Their effectiveness and socio-economic relationships
	Comber, Alexis J.; Li, Ting; Lu, Yihe; Harris, Paul; Fu, Bojie; Wu, Lianhai
刊名	SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
	2017-12-31
卷号	607 期号:12 页码:911-919
关键词	Ecological Restoration Effectiveness Assessment Temporal Scale Socio-ecological System Rural Economy Structural Equation Modeling
英文摘要	Large-scale ecological restoration has been widely accepted globally as an effective strategy for combating environmental crises and to facilitate sustainability. Assessing the effectiveness of ecological restoration is vital for researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers. However, few practical tools are available to perform such tasks, particularly for large-scale restoration programmes in complex socio-ecological systems. By taking a "before and after" design, this paper formulates a composite index (E-j) based on comparing the trends of vegetation cover and vegetation productivity to assess ecological restoration effectiveness. The index reveals the dynamic and spatially heterogenic process of vegetation restoration across different time periods, which can be informative for ecological restoration management at regional scales. Effectiveness together with its relationship to socio-economic factors is explored via structural equation modeling for three time periods. The results indicate that the temporal scale is a crucial factor in representing restoration effectiveness, and that the effects of socioeconomic factors can also vary with time providing insight for improving restoration effectiveness. A dual-track strategy, which promotes the development of tertiary industry in absorbing the rural labor force together with improvements in agricultural practices, is proposed as a promising strategy for enhancing restoration effectiveness. In this process, timely and long-termecological restoration monitoring is advocated, so that the success and sustainability of such programmes is ensured, together with more informative decision making where socio-ecological interactions at differing temporal scales are key concerns. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/39026]
专题	生态环境研究中心_城市与区域生态国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Comber, Alexis J.,Li, Ting,Lu, Yihe,et al. Gauging policy-driven large-scale vegetation restoration programmes under a changing environment: Their effectiveness and socio-economic relationships[J]. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,2017,607(12):911-919.
APA	Comber, Alexis J.,Li, Ting,Lu, Yihe,Harris, Paul,Fu, Bojie,&Wu, Lianhai.(2017).Gauging policy-driven large-scale vegetation restoration programmes under a changing environment: Their effectiveness and socio-economic relationships.SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,607(12),911-919.
MLA	Comber, Alexis J.,et al."Gauging policy-driven large-scale vegetation restoration programmes under a changing environment: Their effectiveness and socio-economic relationships".SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 607.12(2017):911-919.