Spatiotemporal Changes and Obstacle Factors of Forest Ecological Security in China: A Provincial-Level Analysis

• Published in: Forests Vol. 12; no. 11; p. 1526
• Main Authors: Yu, Honghong, Yang, Jiameng, Qiu, Mengyuan, Liu, Zhiyong (John)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 05.11.2021
• Subjects: Barriers; Carbon; China; Climate change; Consumption; Disasters; Ecological effects; Economic conditions; Economic development; Ecosystems; Environmental economics; Environmental impact; forest industries; forest land; Forest resources; Forestry; Forests; Heterogeneity; Indicators; Macau; Neutralization; Provinces; Security; Social change; Society; Spatial heterogeneity; spatial variation; Sustainable development; Taiwan; Training; Urbanization; China; Macau; Taiwan

Under the background of China’s proposal to achieve “carbon neutralization and carbon peak”, it is an important task for each province to clarify their forest ecological security (FES) status. However, there is little understanding of the temporal and spatial evolution of forest ecological security...