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Process chain from ecosystem services to decision making — an analysis based on 671 Chinese literatures

CHEN Peiyuan1,2, HUANG Qingxu1,2†, HE Chunyang1,3,4,5, ZHANG Jinxi1,3,4,5, ZHOU Yuchen1,2, BAI Yansong1,2   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Process and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    2 College of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    3 Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    4 Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management——Ministry of Emergency Management & Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    5 Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Received:2023-06-27 Revised:2023-11-02 Online:2023-12-12

Abstract: Ecosystem service is the bridge connecting ecosystems and social systems, and have gradually become an important basis for decision-making. To this end, this paper reviews the progresses on applying ecosystem service in decision-making by randomly selecting 1,000 Chinese papers on the topic of ecosystem services from 1997 to 2021. According to the four-element process chain from ecosystem services to decision making, this paper quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes the main types of process chains that the existing research focuses on, analyzes the content of process chains from two aspects of salience and legitimacy of ES information, and discusses the future research challenges. We found that although ecosystem services are highly sought after, there are few studies that fully integrate them into the process chain of decision-making. More than two thirds of the papers focused on one or two elements of the process chain, and 2% of the papers included a complete process chain for applying ecosystem services to decision-making. Regarding the salience of ES information, there are few studies at the national scale. In terms of legitimacy, the focus on stakeholders is weak. In terms of ecological regulatory factors, grain yield, biomass and net primary productivity of vegetation are high-frequency considerations. In terms of socio-economic regulatory factors, food prices, GDP and population are high-frequency considerations. In the future, in the process of applying ecosystem services to decision-making, it is necessary to further strengthen the standardization and local optimization of ecosystem service assessment methods, spatial and temporal scale selection, enhance stakeholder and public participation, and adopt scenario analysis to provide strong support for guiding practice and policy formulation.

Key words: ecosystem services, planning, decision support, ecology and socio-economics, sustainable development

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