The balance between economic development and ecosystem service value in the process of land urbanization: A case study of China’s land urbanization from 2000 to 2015

• DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105536
• Publication Date: 2021-05-24T16:25:37Z
• Authors: Yanni Cao; Lingqiao Kong; Lufeng Zhang; Zhiyun Ouyang
• Keywords: Total economic value; Value (mathematics)

Beginning in the 21st century, world entered a stage of rapid development land urbanization. In general, urbanization sacrifices ecosystem service value for economic value. Optimizing spatial pattern is best means balancing and Taking China as an example, through remote sensing GIS methods, this paper studies basic situation regional distribution other types ecosystems from 2000 to 2015, assessing relationship between characteristics growth cost services. The results show that differences practices significant extensive serious issue; speed provinces cities with larger scale faster; intensive, economical centralized utilization effective way improve GDP per unit area; varies significantly among different regions. For loss wetland due greatest, Inner Mongolia 100 million yuan new 13.1-fold Shanghai. Therefore, output area reduce services, study draws series conclusions puts forward corresponding policy suggestions clarify mode priority