气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Tracking national sustainability of critical natural capital and the socioeconomic drivers in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative

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DOI	10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106315
	Tracking national sustainability of critical natural capital and the socioeconomic drivers in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative
	Chen X.; Liu Q.; Fang K.; He J.; Chen Y.; Wang T.; Fang C.; Shen Y.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1470160X
卷号	114
英文摘要	The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with a strategic policy framework for pursuing societal prosperity without undermining environmental sustainability. However, very few studies have focused on the assessment of the environmental sustainability of nations partnering the BRI. Following a precautionary principle that the strong sustainability lies in the maintenance of critical natural capital stocks, this paper attempts to determine the state of land as critical natural capital for biomass production and carbon dioxide sequestration in BRI countries using an improved three-dimensional ecological footprint model, and explores the socioeconomic drivers behind using spatial econometric models. Our time-series analysis for the period 1996–2016 shows that the use of land as natural capital in most BRI countries has been operating in a state of environmental unsustainability over a long period of time. Forest and cropland are found to be major sources of natural capital flows, while suffering from severe depletion of natural capital stocks simultaneously. Overall, the appropriation of natural capital flows remains relatively stable but uneven, with rich appropriation of flows in Europe, Central Asia and Southeast Asia. The depletion of natural capital stocks primarily shows an increasing trend, with intensive stock depletion mainly in West Asia, East Asia and South Asia. Overall, population density and per capita GDP are identified as major contributors to BRI's environmental unsustainability, whereas the proportion of exports in GDP and the proportion of built-up area considerably drive the decline in unsustainability. These findings suggest that tackling environmental unsustainability due to inappropriate land use constitutes a major challenge for BRI nations, thus underpinning the necessity of environmentally friendly policies in the pursuit of SDGs. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Belt and Road Initiative; Ecological footprint size and depth; Environmental sustainability; Land use; Natural capital; Planetary boundaries; Sustainable Development Goals
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Ecological Indicators
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/158425
作者单位	School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China; Center of Social Welfare and Governance, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, 100101, China; School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China; International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen X.,Liu Q.,Fang K.,et al. Tracking national sustainability of critical natural capital and the socioeconomic drivers in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative[J],2020,114.
APA	Chen X..,Liu Q..,Fang K..,He J..,Chen Y..,...&Shen Y..(2020).Tracking national sustainability of critical natural capital and the socioeconomic drivers in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative.,114.
MLA	Chen X.,et al."Tracking national sustainability of critical natural capital and the socioeconomic drivers in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative".114(2020).