Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13020242
Keywords
cultural ecosystem services; tour experience; spatially explicit; ecosystem services bundles; land use management; sustainable development
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFB0504205]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [42071440]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China [BK20201257]
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With the intensification of global warming, the research on ecosystem services and land use management has attracted increasing attention in countries facing development difficulties. The balance between ecological protection and economic development remains a challenge during urbanization. Identifying regional cultural ecosystem services and formulating regional development strategies by combining natural conditions with humanistic and social tendencies may be an effective approach to support decision-making in land and spatial planning.
With the deterioration of human-terrestrial relations and the intensification of global warming, development in all countries is facing difficulties. Whether in highly urbanized countries or in rapidly urbanizing developing countries such as China, the research on ecosystem services (ES) and land use management has attracted increasing attention. The general management of land use unilaterally pursues economic benefits and neglects ecological benefits, which aggravates the disparity between ecological development and the economic benefits of land resources. How to strike up a balance between ecologic protection and economic development remains a difficult problem during urbanization. It may be a better choice to formulate regional development strategies by combining natural conditions with humanistic and social tendencies. Identifying regional cultural ecosystem services (CES) and other important ES while performing zoning planning for regional land use can be a viable approach in land use management. Here, our study quantitatively evaluates the tourism experience of Xiaohuangshan Mountain (XHSM) and various ES, including recreation, biodiversity, history, aesthetics, soil conservation, surface water regulation, and soil nutrition. All ES were classified into four bundles for XHSM. Different ES bundles generated are suitable for different land use management methods and development forms according to their outstanding ES. The results show that quantifying and mapping regional ES bundles can provide the necessary information to support a win-win solution and provide decision support for land and spatial planning in areas with different social and ecological characteristics.
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