《Watershed carbon compensation based on land use change: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt》

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作者
Shengfu Yang;Wenjie Fu;Shougeng Hu;Penglai Ran
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HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.126,P.102613
语言
英文
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作者单位
School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China;Key Laboratory of Law and Government, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Wuhan, 430074, China;School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China;Key Laboratory of Law and Government, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Wuhan, 430074, China;Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Department of Management, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China;Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Exploitation and Protection, Ministry of Natural Resources, Nanjing, 210023, China;Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK;Institute of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany;Jiangsu Land Development and Consolidation Technology Engineering Center, Nanjing, 210023, China;School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China;Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;The State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (SKLMP), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518057, China;University Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Economy High-Quality Development of Liaoning Province, Dalian, 116029, Liaoning, China;Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry Education, Center for Studies of Marine Economy and Sustainable Development, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, Liaoning, China;School of Geographical Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, Liaoning, China;School of Geography, Development & Environment, University of Arizona, 1064 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA;Department of Geography, Indiana University, 701 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA;Arizona Institutes for Resilience, University of Arizona, 1064 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA;Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA;Zambia Agriculture Research Institute, Mount Makulu Central Research Station, Private Bag 7, Chilanga, Zambia;School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China;Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hum Hong, Hong Kong
摘要
Watershed carbon compensation can not only reduce carbon emissions but also promote regional coordinated development. Although existing studies have shown that carbon compensation can act as a mechanism to balance regional development and conservation goals, there is relatively little knowledge about carbon compensation taking land use change into consideration. This study, building on the theoretical framework of watershed carbon compensation, calculates the carbon emissions based on land use change in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, analyses its spatial differentiation and constructs a carbon compensation model. The results show that from 1990 to 2018, carbon emissions from land use have almost quadrupled, from 1.74 × 108 tons to 6.76 × 108 tons. Cities with high carbon emissions from land use are concentrated in economically developed downstream areas or mid-upstream urban agglomerations. As for carbon compensation, the total amount of it in Yangtze River Economic Belt has gradually increased over the past 29 years. Spatially in 2018, the upstream area received 1.31 × 108 tons of carbon compensation, the midstream area received 5.40 × 107 tons and the downstream area provided 2.83 × 108 tons. Furthermore, this study discusses reduction measures of carbon emission in watershed based on the optimisation of land use patterns, and horizontal and vertical watershed carbon compensation. It suggests the conditions and paths of watershed carbon compensation based on land use change from the four perspectives of socio-economic foundation, institutional environment, governance structure and resource allocation.