A County-Scale Spillover Ecological Value Compensation Standard of Ecological Barrier Area in China: Based on an Extended Emergy Analysis

• Published in: Agriculture (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 12; p. 1185
• Main Authors: He, Jia, Li, Yi, Zhang, Lianjun, Tan, Junyin, Wen, Chuanhao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2021
• Subjects: Canyons; Compensation; Consumption; coordinated development; Costs; ecological compensation standard; Ecological function; Economic development; Ecosystems; Emergy; emergy analysis; Energy; Environmental economics; Environmental protection; Forests; Methods; Natural resources; Regional development; Reservoirs; Social change; spillover ecological value; Sustainable development; Three Gorges Reservoir Region; Wetlands; China

Ecological compensation (EC) is an important way to solve the imbalance of cross-regional economic development and realize regional coordinated development. How to quantify the standard of EC has become a hot research topic. Firstly, this paper selected the Three Gorges Reservoir Region (TGRR) as th...