Ecological restoration for sustainable development in China
Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Normal University · +4 more institutions
Abstract
Facing the need for transdisciplinary research to promote ecological restoration that achieves both social and ecological benefits, research on past restoration efforts that have directly or indirectly contributed to regional or national sustainable development warrants reassessment. Using China as an example, in this review, we address three basic research questions that can be summarized as follows: ecological restoration-of what, for whom and to what purpose? Accordingly, a 'landscape pattern-ecosystem service-sustainable development' co-evolutionary framework is proposed here to describe landscape-scale ecological restoration and its impact on landscape patterns and ecological processes, ecosystem services…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 50.28
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 60
Authors
3Topics & keywords
- Restoration ecology
- Ecosystem services
- Sustainable development
- Environmental resource management
- Harmony (color)
- China
- Ecology
- Environmental planning
- Life in Land