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  • Interview with Experts
    CHENG Ye-qing, HU Shou-geng, YANG Ren, TAO Wei, LI Hong-bo, LI Bo-hua, LIU Pei-lin, Wei Feng-qun, GUO Wen, TANG Cheng-cai, GU Kang-kang, TANG Xue-qiong
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(8): 1735-1759. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240801

    The protection and utilization of traditional villages is not only a major practical issue to realize China's rural revitalization and Chinese-style modernization, but also a hot topic in the integration and cross-research of geography, sociology, planning, economics and other disciplines. In order to systematically explore the theoretical cognition, practical problems, system mechanism, practical experience and effective path of the protection and utilization of traditional villages in China, 11 experts in the research field of traditional villages were invited to conduct interviews. The interview mainly focuses on the classification of Chinese traditional villages from three perspectives: policy change and typical model, macro mechanism and core theme, theoretical cognition and practical path, and focuses on specific practices such as industrial integration, landscape protection, vitality, value realization, subject drive, spatial governance and locality, based on the theoretical understanding of the macro system and mechanism for the protection and utilization of Chinese traditional villages. Advanced theoretical and practical issues such as industrial integration, landscape protection, organic renewal, vitality, value realization, subject drive, spatial governance and locality were discussed in depth. According to the main views of the experts, the protection and utilization of China's traditional villages in the new era should focus on: (1) The main problems of protection and utilization of Chinese traditional villages facing the impact of rapid urbanization and modernization, the innovation of mechanism and system, and the realization path. In view of the conflict between modern civilization and agricultural civilization faced by traditional Chinese villages and the major strategic needs for national rural revitalization and Chinese-style modernization, the combination of "top-down" and "bottom-up" is adopted to build a diversified integration mechanism featuring multi-subject participation, organic integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, and overall coordination. By exploring the endogenous growth factors of traditional villages and the historical inheritance and cultural context of traditional villages, strengthening the leadership of rural grassroots party building, giving play to the role of villagers as the main body, reshaping the public cultural space system of traditional villages and all-round digital twin modeling, etc., we will create a living environment that is in line with modernization development and ecological civilization construction and jointly build a cultural map, to realize the transformation of traditional Chinese villages from "vegetable gardens" and "back gardens" to "spiritual homes". (2) Core themes and specific spatial practices of protection and utilization of traditional Chinese villages for rural revitalization and Chinese-style modernization. Focus on the core themes of traditional village classification, industrial integration, organic renewal, landscape protection, vitality, value realization, subject drive, spatial governance and local reconstruction, and strengthen the classification and classification of traditional villages based on the coupling of key factors such as "livelihood, water, food, energy and land"; focus on the significance, connotation and influence mechanism of the time dimension, space dimension and attribute dimension of traditional village industrial transformation; focus on the three tasks of "protection and development countermeasures, measures to improve people's livelihood, and strategies to activate utilization" to promote the organic renewal of traditional settlements; emphasis should be placed on the gene protection and inner spiritual value mining of traditional human settlement cultural landscape, the "living" protection and utilization of traditional living space and the "activation" of traditional cultural heritage; focus on the diversification of traditional village activities, "co-construction, co-governance and sharing" and the construction of beautiful villages; the importance of natural non-human elements and human beings as spatial order construction and place construction of traditional villages and their active practice are emphasized to promote the realization of multi-functionality and multi-value of traditional villages. Pay attention to the excavation of traditional cultural heritage and intensive and efficient material space, create a harmonious and comfortable social space and protect and inherit traditional culture space; focusing on rural elements such as "ecology, culture, subject, and industry", strengthening ecological background, inheriting and developing local culture, balancing capital advantages and local embeddedness among local and cross-local subjects, so as to realize local reconstruction and characteristic remodeling of traditional Chinese villages.

  • Interview with Experts on New Quality Productive Forces
    WANG Jin-wei, LU Lin, WANG Zhao-feng, WEI Min, SONG Rui, YANG Yong, BAI Kai, LIN Ming-shui, YU Hu, ZHU He
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(7): 1643-1663. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240709

    New quality productive forces are the core driver for building a modern tourism sector and also support the development of a strong tourism nation. In order to deeply understand the scientific connotation of new quality productive forces and clarify the theoretical logic and strategic path of new quality productive forces empowering the high-quality development of tourism industry, several experts on regional economic development, the digital economy, tourism management and geography were interviewed. The interviews were based on the logic of "problem orientation-innovative thinking-path mechanism", focusing on the background, opportunities and challenges, core meanings, drivers, and innovations empowering the high-quality development of tourism new quality productive forces. There were three main conclusions from this research. The first was the strategic opportunities and risks of promoting the high-quality development of tourism through new quality productive forces against a background of rapid and continuous technological change. New quality productive forces optimize resource allocation through scientific and technological innovation, and improve the production efficiency and growth quality of tourism. They also produce new tourism development models and forms of business, constantly generating momentum to drive high-quality economic and social improvements. Especially in rural tourism, the role of new quality productive forces is particularly significant. It promotes the gradual improvement of the rural tourism production network, enhances cooperation among rural tourism stakeholders, helps rural tourism participants evolve new production initiatives, and ultimately reinvigorates rural areas with increased prosperity. However, given globalization and rapid digitalization, innovation in tourism faces a series of challenges. In particular, the lack of systematic development of tourism software and hardware, risks of data security and privacy protection, resistance to change and innovation in traditional tourism, and the "growing pains" brought by the transformation to new technologies deserve attention. The development of new quality productive forces in future tourism must focus on technological innovation, find and prepare a quality tourism workforce, optimize and more closely integrate products and services with human talent, and significantly improve the total factor productivity of tourism. Second, the process of empowering the high-quality development of tourism must encompass technological innovation leading to industrial modernization. Innovation plays a leading role in new quality productive forces and is the core driver of the high-quality development of tourism. The new quality productive forces empowering this tourism development have several specific features. Technological innovation leads the modernization of the tourism sector and is a prerequisite for the high-quality development of tourism. Factor integration and supply-demand matching are the intrinsic requirements for the high-quality development of tourism. Other critical ingredients are digitization, greening and artificial intelligence. The significant improvement of total factor productivity must be the core goal for the high-quality development of tourism. Third, the guidance of national strategy is crucial to the progress and prospects for new quality productive forces empowering the high-quality development of tourism. New quality productive forces are receiving widespread emphasis since their inception and have become a core issue highly valued by the tourism sector in China. In the New Era, modern technology has become a key production factor in tourism. Additionally, the transformation and upgrading of tourism is dynamically advancing, growth is strengthening, and the ability of tourism to serve national economic and social-cultural strategies is becoming more noticeable. However, it should not be overlooked that high-quality tourism development is still faced with serious problems such as weak technological innovation capabilities, uneven regional development, inadequate circulation of factor resources, and insufficient human talent for tourism. To further enhance the beneficial impacts of new quality productive forces in stimulating the high-quality development of tourism, it is necessary to focus on deepening the reform of the system and operations in tourism, optimizing the creative allocation of tourism production factors, accelerating the development of a modern tourism sector, and improving the quality of professional tourism talent. These three recommendations will not only enhance the understanding and application of new quality productive forces to a certain extent, but also provide decision-making support for building China into a leading tourism nation in the world.

  • Original article
    GAO Yan, LING Wei, SHENG Chun-ling, DENG Yi, LI Xiang-mei
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(10): 2294-2309. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20241003

    The large-scale construction of national parks poses a huge challenge to the demand for ecological compensation funds. Financial compensation is not only a drop in the bucket, but also difficult to solve the rigid dilemma of insufficient and mismatched compensation. This study uses carbon trading as a tool to solve the ecological compensation problem in national parks, and outlines three channels: international, domestic, and third-party independent voluntary emission reduction mechanisms that develop ecological carbon sinks into voluntary greenhouse gas emissions reductions to benefit the carbon market. Among them, China Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) is the main channel for realizing the ecological carbon sink value of national parks in the future. Then, the study analyzed three key issues: limited market supply, difficulty in effective trading, and unclear profit distribution models for national parks to obtain sufficient and precise ecological compensation through CCER market. In the design of ecological carbon sink compensation mechanism based on carbon trading, a screening mechanism is proposed to ensure the maximum profit potential of ecological carbon sink projects under the principle of balancing economic and social ecological benefits after the methodological barriers are cleared. An effective trading mechanism is established by offsetting ratios, offsetting in other regions, and government protection settings to promote transactions and effectively distinguish the boundary between government and market compensation. In order to avoid operational risks, a precise compensation mechanism is introduced by establishing a PPP model of third-party professional carbon sink development enterprises for ecological carbon sink project, and income distribution is based on the contributions of relevant carbon sink supply entities. Finally, the study provides relevant policy recommendations for National Forestry and Grassland Administration, which is in charge of national parks, and Ministry of Ecology and Environment, which is in charge of carbon markets in China. The research results are expected to provide reference and inspiration for establishing market-oriented ecological compensation mechanisms in all nature reserves and other ecological spaces, including national parks.

  • Research on China's Tourism Resources in the New Era
    WANG Si-ya, SUN Jiu-xia
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(7): 1531-1547. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240703

    Current research on tourism resource development predominantly focuses on the economic attributes of resources and their economic transformation effects on products or industries, with limited attention to the social attributes and social effects of these resources. This paper conducts a comparative study of three rural communities in the circum-Erhai Lake region of Yunnan province with varying degrees of tourism involvement. The study explores the community heterogenization effects of tourism resource development and the bidirectional driving mechanisms between tourism resource development and community heterogenization. The research findings are as follows: Firstly, distinct from other rural resource development models, tourism resource development leads to both vertical economic heterogenization and horizontal group heterogenization among homogeneous village communities. Secondly, there is a bidirectional driving mechanism between tourism resource development and community heterogenization. On the one hand, tourism resource development brings about the transformation of resource value, establishing a link between "natural resources" and "social resources," resulting in the attraction of material wealth and population groups. On the other hand, community heterogenization creates internal tension among resource users, fostering diversified and systematic resource utilization methods, thereby promoting the integration of resource types and the enlargement of resource categories. Under the dual influence of external market and internal community drivers, tourism resources are developed and redeveloped, exhibiting value amplification and category enlargement effects.

  • Regular Articles
    XU Shao-wen, ZHANG Hui-jie, QIAN Jing-fei
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(9): 2206-2223. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240912

    The signing and implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) have provided crucial external opportunities for the high-quality development of China's agricultural products trade. This paper uses the social network analysis method to characterize the agricultural products trade network, and utilizes the extended gravity model to analyze the influencing factors in agricultural products trade within the RCEP region. The results show that: (1) The spatial cohesion of the global agricultural products trade network continues to increase, the connectivity is significantly improved, and the trade scale continues to expand, with a distinctive "center-periphery" structure. (2) RCEP member countries demonstrate a clear trend of diversified import patterns, coupled with steady growth in exports. The number of global agricultural products trade partners continues to rise, leading to a differentiation in trade status and gradually forming a single-core structure centered around China. (3) The improvement in the quality of economic institutions and the signing of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) contribute to enhancing the agricultural products trade environment, reducing trade costs, and promoting agricultural products trade. It is suggested that China should fully utilize the opportunity of RCEP implementation, exert its core influence within the RCEP region, promote the implementation of RECP high-quality rules, form a highly complementary agricultural products market within the region, and enhance the export competitiveness of agricultural products.

  • Research on China's Tourism Resources in the New Era
    LI Yun-yun, LIU Hao-long, LIU Jun
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(7): 1613-1625. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240707

    This study aims to integrate phenology research theories, methods, and data into the fields of tourism and climate change. Using first flowering date and last flowering date of 18 species during 1973-1996 and 2003-2012 in two phenological observation sites (Beibei and Renshou) from China Phenological Observation Network, and over 800 data records of the date on blossom viewing festival during 1987-2014 from authoritative newspapers in the study area, the impact of climate change on blossom viewing tourism and human adaptive behavior was assessed by methods of time series analysis and correlation analysis. The results showed that: (1) Climate change generally has positive impacts on blossom viewing activities in Sichuan and Chongqing, China. It extended the blossom viewing season length for 50% (9 species) of plants, and shortened it for 27.8% (5 species) of plants. Among the preferred viewing species in China, climate change was found to benefit the blossom viewing and tourism activities of camellia and mountain peach, but had a detrimental effect on purple magnolia. (2) Air temperature emerged as the primary factor influencing the blossom viewing season length. An increase of 1 ℃ in air temperature one month prior to the flowering date extended the blossom viewing season length by 5.99-7.57 days or shortened it by 1.99 days. Similarly, 1 ℃ increase in air temperature three months before the flowering date extended the blossom viewing season length by 4.41-11.71 days or shortened it by 2.26-4.99 days. (3) 50% of the organizers of blossom viewing activities were unaware of the impact of climate change and had not implemented appropriate strategies to adapt to it. Additionally, 50% of the festival dates were adjusted based on changes in air temperature. The study recommends adopting a scientific approach that adjusts the dates of blossom viewing festivals according to phenological dynamics. The study's findings offer a scientific foundation for directing the public and tourists in engaging in blossom viewing tourism. Additionally, they contribute to the scientific planning of plant landscapes in tourist destinations. This holds considerable theoretical importance and practical value, enhancing the climate change impact assessment and adaptation research framework. It also broadens the scope of tourism science research, establishes a novel discipline development direction, and furnishes a theoretical foundation for the tourism industry to address climate change.

  • Research on China's Tourism Resources in the New Era
    WEI Man, HUANG Tai
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(7): 1591-1612. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240706

    Rural tourism destination is the key area to promote urban-rural integration and achieve common prosperity. Accurately grasping the multidimensional characteristics of county urban-rural integration development and systematically analyzing its mechanism of promoting the common prosperity of rural tourism destinations, is conducive to enriching the theoretical system of urban-rural common prosperity in the New Era. Therefore, based on symbiosis theory, this paper constructs a theoretical framework to examine the influence mechanism of urban-rural integration development on the common prosperity of rural tourism destinations. This theoretical framework is composed of the chain causality of "symbiotic unit-symbiotic environment-symbiotic result-symbiotic effect-symbiotic purpose". Based on this framework, this paper makes an empirical analysis of 60 typical rural tourism counties in the Yangtze River Delta region. The results show that: (1) Although rural tourism can continuously deepen the symbiotic relationship between urban and rural areas and enhance the common prosperity level of rural tourism destinations, it is characterized by unbalanced development and forms a "core-edge" spatial development layout. (2) The county urban-rural integration development can linearly promote the common prosperity of rural tourism destinations. And through the cultivation of tourism talents, the expansion of tourism market, the integration of space and landscape, and the allocation of tourism resources, new symbiotic energy is formed to enhance the promotion effect. Among them, because the countryside is in the period of material wealth accumulation, the tourism market expansion mechanism to improve residents' income level has the highest mediating promotion effect. (3) In urban-rural symbiotic units of different city sizes, the symbiotic environment of population, land and industry is differentiated and integrated to promote the common prosperity. Compared with small and medium-sized cities, the promotion effect of big cities is higher. On the one hand, big cities take industry as the core symbiotic environment, and activate the tourism market and cultivate tourism talents under the advantage of population size. On the other hand, small and medium-sized cities take population as the core symbiotic environment, and the utilization efficiency of rural tourism resources is effectively improved after population return. Therefore, large, medium and small cities can realize the common prosperity of rural tourism destinations. In brief, county urban-rural integration development has become a practical starting point to promote common prosperity. Based on the development scenario of rural tourism, this paper provides forward-looking thinking for major national practical problems.

  • Original article
    ZHANG Yin, LOU Ying, SHU Quan-feng, LI Sheng-zhi
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(10): 2364-2382. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20241007

    What governance model can be adopted to better enhance the ecological, social and economic effectiveness of nature reserve governance? Few studies have conducted quantitative comparative analyses based on the community perception perspective. Based on the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, 17 communities within and around the Giant Panda National Park were selected. Differences in community perception of State-led, co-managed, and community-based and other elements affecting community residents' perceptions of effectiveness will be compared, by means of questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, one-way ANOVA, and stepwise regression analysis. Our study found that: (1) Community residents have the most positive perceptions of the ecological effectiveness of the Giant Panda National Park and the most negative perceptions of the economic effectiveness. (2) The community-based model has the best performance in the three dimensions, while State-led conservation has the second best performance in the ecological and social dimensions, and co-managed model has the second best performance in the economic dimensions. (3) The community residents' perceptions of the effectiveness of the Giant Panda National Park are affected by the combination of the natural geographic conditions, economic and social attributes, and other factors.We point out that all types of governance models have their advantages and disadvantages, and community-based governance is not a "panacea" for all public pond resource problems. Therefore, it is advocated to carry out local adaptation of the selection of nature reserve governance models. The study expands the application scenarios of the IAD framework, deepens the theoretical understanding of nature reserve governance models, and provides empirical insights for community coordination of nature reserves in China.

  • Organic Renewal and Vitalization
    WEI Cheng, LIU Fu-qiang, YANG Cheng, CHENG Yu-xiao, SHEN Jing
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(8): 1867-1886. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240808

    The rapid urbanization has profound impacts on traditional villages, and clarifying its rigid constraints and activation drivers for preservation and utilization is of significant theoretical and practical importance. This paper takes traditional villages in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) as the research object, supported by long-term tracking investigations and return visits. Based on the dialectical relationship between the impacts and opportunities brought by rapid urbanization, the paper attempts to construct a targeted research framework for preservation constraints and activation utilization, revealing the major challenges, progress, and development prospects of traditional village preservation and utilization in the PRD. The results indicate that: (1) The challenges of preservation and utilization are mainly reflected in the alienation and damage of material elements such as the overall pattern and settlement space, as well as facing constraints such as numerous historical issues and high input costs. (2) Rapid urbanization also serves as an important opportunity for the revitalization and development of traditional villages in the PRD. The expansion of urban functions, population aggregation, and consumption potential have promoted new progress in preservation and utilization, including "remediation" based on government investment, "self-rescue" assisted by multiple subjects, "salvation" under the intervention of social enterprises, and "rescue" seizing policy opportunities. The paper also combines land spatial planning, new urbanization, rural revitalization, and other aspects to forecast the development prospects of traditional village preservation and utilization in the PRD in the New Era.

  • Regular Articles
    YU Hao-chen, YIN Deng-yu, GONG Pan, YANG Yong-jun, CHEN Fu
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(9): 2066-2086. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240904

    How to seek solutions with clear objectives, appropriate interventions, and integrated approaches is especially critical to integrated protection and systematic governance (IPSG) of full-array ecosystems (FAE). Thus, the concept of land degradation neutrality (LDN) was introduced into the practice of IPSG in FAE, whereby a theoretical framework encompassing dual objects, dual laws, dual principles, indicator systems, and value orientations was constructed. Then, in the case of urban agglomeration of north slope of the Tianshan Mountains, the type identification and degree measurement of degraded and improved land was completed at the pixel scale, while the gap to LDN was quantified at both administrative units and grid scales. The results showed that: (1) At the pixel scale, the area of improved land was marginally higher than that of degraded land in 2005-2020, which was mainly mildly improved or degraded. Severe degradation was often associated with the transfer-in of unutilized land, urban land, and mining land, along with the transfer-out of water bodies, glaciers, and forests. However, cultivated land and grassland could affect degradation or improvement no matter whether the transfer occurred or not. (2) At the regional scale, the target of LDN was not achieved in the study area, owing to the denial of land resources maintaining ecosystem services and functions. Similarly, the vast majority of administrative units or grids encountered the simultaneous negation of the dual objects, while achieving LDN is only rare. (3) Drawing upon normative value orientations, functionalist tendencies, and human-land coordination, we propose that emphasis should be placed on coordinating the bottom-line thinking with moderate governance, unifying the differential treatment of elements with system-wide integrated protection, and subsequently synergizing multiple objectives to achieve harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. In conclusion, the LDN target encompasses characteristics of openness, inclusivity, and prudence, so this study could provide scientific foundations and decision-making references for the IPSG of FAE in dryland.

  • Tourism Development and Local Construction
    HUANG Cheng-kun, ZHANG Xing-fa, XU Hong
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(8): 1974-1992. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240814

    The rapid development of urbanization has placed traditional village cultural landscapes at risk of decline. Tourism-induced production and consumption of landscape symbols offer new perspectives for the protection and revitalization of traditional village cultural landscapes in the new era. Using actor-network theory and taking Huangling village in Wuyuan county, Jiangxi, as a case study, this research explores the process and mechanisms of tourism placemaking under the symbolization of the "Shaiqiu" cultural landscape. The results show that: (1) Huangling Tourism Company plays a pivotal role in the local tourism development, acting as a key actor in the symbolization of the "Shaiqiu" landscape, mobilizing diverse actors through interessement, enrolment and mobilisation. (2) The tourism development in Huangling village undergoes two stages: the shaping of the core symbol of "Shaiqiu" and the integration of the generalized "Shaiqiu" landscape symbol. Throughout this evolution, the obligatory passage point (OPP) of the actor network shifts from "Develop rural tourism, revitalize Huangling" to "Enhance the quality of tourism projects, create a rural tourism complex." (3) The agency of key actors, exploration of non-human actor attributes, and the intervention of significant heterogeneous actors are intrinsic mechanisms driving the local tourism development in Huangling village under the symbolization of cultural landscape. This study broadens the theoretical understanding of placemaking from the perspective of landscape symbolization, offering practical insights for the protection and renewal of traditional village cultural landscapes in the new era.

  • Regular Articles
    DAI Liu-yan, ZHOU Guo-hua
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(9): 2224-2240. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240913

    Rural attraction is the actual or potential ability and power of rural regional system to attract population, industrial capital, information technology and other resource elements to flow and gather in rural areas. The decline of rural attraction is the concrete representation of rural recession, and also the main source of rural problems such as rural hollowing and rural poverty. Improving rural attraction is an important way to promote rural revitalization, and the quantitative measurement of rural attraction is an important basis to judge the level and potential of rural development. Based on the perspective of urban-rural interaction, this paper adopts the method of combining subjective and objective indicators to build the basic measurement framework and quantitative measurement model of rural attraction, and carries out empirical research on Liuyang city, Hunan province. The results show the following: (1) Rural attraction is the resultant of rural pull, rural thrust, urban thrust, urban pull and urban-rural intermediary force. The comprehensive measurement of rural attraction should not only focus on the development conditions of the rural regional system itself, but also pay attention to the role of the external environment (city) in rural attractiveness. (2) The attraction level of rural areas in Liuyang presents obvious spatial differentiation characteristics. The attraction level of rural areas near the central town is relatively high, while the attractiveness level of other intermediate areas is relatively low. High and higher level areas account for a relatively small proportion (32.14%), while areas with moderate or lower gravity levels are widely distributed. The high-level areas are mainly concentrated in the northwest of Liuzhou, and the average comprehensive rural attractiveness level of this area is significantly higher than that of other areas. (3) The rural attraction of Liuyang has significant spatial agglomeration characteristics, and the global spatial positive correlation is significant. The local areas with a single research unit as the analysis scale also have certain spatial correlation, mainly showing the distribution of high-high and low-high agglomeration areas. The high value rural attraction areas centered around Yong'an, Dongyang, Beisheng, Shashi, Jiaoxi, and other areas in the northwest region have a significant positive driving effect on the surrounding areas. However, there are also local low-high agglomeration areas represented by Chunkou town, which have a significant gap with the rural attraction level in the surrounding areas due to their own development conditions. Based on this, the study proposes suggestions for enhancing rural attraction from the aspects of carrying out zoning classification regulation, strengthening the integration of regional advantageous resource elements, and promoting the integration of urban-town-village living circles.

  • Interview with Experts on New Quality Productive Forces
    JIN Xiao-bin, SHEN Lei, HUANG Xian-jin, DENG Xiang-zheng, HU Shou-geng, KE Xin-li, WU Zhi-feng, ZHAO Duo-ping, LIU Jing
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(9): 2011-2028. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240901

    China's social economy has shifted from the stage of high-speed growth to the stage of high-quality development. Promoting high-quality management of natural resources has become a major issue related to the overall development of the country. Accelerating the construction and cultivation of new quality productive forces (NQP) and enabling high-quality management of natural resources is of great practical significance to promoting Chinese-style modernization. Regarding the logic and path of NQP enabling high-quality management of natural resources, relevant scholars from different disciplines were invited to present their views on the following topics: (1) The logical relationship between NQP and natural resource management;(2) the positioning and function of NQP in natural resource management; (3) the inspiration and requirements of NQP for natural resource management; (4) the key areas of NQP promoting high-quality management of natural resources; the path of (5) NQP to cope with climate change and implement the dual-carbon strategy; (6) NQP to empower the modernization of territorial spatial governance; (7) NQP to reshape the new form of coordinated urban-rural development;and (8) NQP to ensure food security and promote the construction of an agricultural power, etc. This work aims to explore the specific application of NQP in natural resource management, with a view to providing scientific reference for promoting high-quality management of natural resources and helping the Chinese-style modernization. Overall, special attention should be paid to the following key issues in empowering high-quality natural resource management with NQP: (1) break the barriers of natural resources management and mechanism innovation oriented to the coordination of the whole area, the whole factor, the whole process and the multi-department; (2) key areas and paths for cultivating NQP for comprehensively ensuring the security of natural resources and strengthening the stability of supply of key resources; (3) construction and practice innovation of digital intelligence NQP cultivation system for efficient use and accurate management of natural resources.

  • Landscape Genes and Landscape Restoration
    FEI Xue-yan, CHENG Ye-qing, KONG Xi-ping, ZHANG Jin-ping
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(8): 1760-1779. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240802

    The study of cultural landscape genes of traditional villages is one of the key areas of geography, which plays an important role in the inheriting China's outstanding culture, protecting countryside characteristic features, and supporting rural revitalization. Taking the Tanka Fishing village in Lingshui Li autonomous county, Hainan province as an example, this paper established an analysis framework of cultural landscape genetic for the Tanka Fishing village based on the Landscape Gene Theory, identified and analyzed its types, characteristics and information chain of cultural landscape gene of the village. The results show that: (1) The Tanka Fishing village has abundant cultural landscape genetic types. Material culture landscape gene can be divided into two parts: sea and land, reflecting the historical changes of the production and lifestyles of the Tanka people; The intangible cultural landscape genes include traditional skills, music, language, etc., which implicate the good wishes for happiness, peace, and harvest of the Tanka people. (2) The intangible landscape gene information elements such as traditional skills, language, music, customs, and festivals fully reflect the landscape features of "fishery production and lifestyle" and distinctive marine "fishing culture" as the core of the Tanka Fishing village. It is difficult for material cultural landscape gene to fully reflect the meta-characteristics of landscape gene information with the development of society, but the gene can still be mined from the plane structure and local decoration. (3) Important landscape gene information points such as ancient pier, Sanjiang Temple, traditional folk on land and marine fishing rows in Tanka Fishing village showed diversified functions. Sea and land landscape gene information corridors are important channels connecting landscape gene points in the village, which has an obvious character of hierarchy. The characteristics of landscape gene information network are obviously intensive, the layout of fishing rows at sea is regular and large, and the traditional buildings on land are scattered.

  • Regular Articles
    LIU Lu-meng, WU Jian-guo
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(9): 2044-2065. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240903

    The relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and human well-being (HWB) is a central issue in the science and practice of sustainable development, and numerous studies have mushroomed in recent decades. However, the diverse frameworks, approaches, and methods used in studying the ES-HWB relationship have rarely been reviewed systematically. Thus, here we provide an overview of the research frameworks, approaches, and methods for studying the ES-HWB relationship. In addition, we discuss future research directions. Our review shows that research frameworks for studying the ES-HWB relationship can be classified into four types, including frameworks related to the Entitlement and Capacity Approach, the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response framework, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment framework, and the Ecosystem Services Cascade framework. The four types of frameworks differ in their origins, core elements, and application scenarios, but show similarities in their construction logic and inherent assumptions. Methods for analyzing the ES-HWB relationship can be categorized as direct valuation, statistical analysis, model simulation, and qualitative assessment. To facilitate ES and HWB relationship research, future studies need to update the research framework, innovate research methods based on the recently developed method (e.g., machine learning), and develop coherent guidelines for indicator selection and quantification.

  • Research on China's Tourism Resources in the New Era
    ZOU Yong-guang, LEI Zhen-xian, LIAO Jin-jin, LI Yuan
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(7): 1512-1530. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240702

    Loss of sustained attention to tourism resources is the phenomenon of reduced or shifted attention to tourism resources, which is important for enhancing the risk-resistant ability of tourism resources. Based on the big data of online public opinion and the comprehensive use of sentiment analysis, LDA theme model, fuzzy qualitative comparative analysis and other research methods, the study explores the factors and paths that affect the loss of sustained attention to tourism resources based on the establishment of comprehensive evaluation indexes to measure the loss of sustained attention to tourism resources. The study found that: (1) The loss of sustained attention of tourism resources is characterised by volatility, but tends to be stable internally. (2) During the study period, the loss of sustained attention of Zibo, Hongyadong, and Harbin Ice and Snow Festival showed a decreasing trend, the loss of sustained attention of Chaka Salt Lake, Beer Festival, Impression Liu Sanjie, and Da Song Qianguo Love showed an increasing trend, and the loss of sustained attention of Datang Nocturnal City showed an increasing trend followed by a decreasing trend. (3) The loss of sustained attention of tourism resources is influenced by the interaction of tourism supply, market demand, new media communication and other factors, and the paths that form the low loss of sustained attention of tourism resources are product innovation and media marketing. The results of the study provide theoretical reference for understanding the inner logic of the sustainable development of tourism resources in the new media era, and provide practical guidance for effectively matching public service supply, and improving resource quality and promotion.

  • Implementation Monitoring of Natiornal Spatial Planning
    ZHANG Hong-hui, ZHONG Zhen-tao, YANG Li-ya, CUI Xue-sen, XU Hua-jian, LI Wen-jing
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(12): 2853-2868. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20241207

    The construction of the China Spatial Planning Observation Network (CSPON) is a crucial means to promote intelligent planning, that is "perceptive, capable of learning, good at governance, and self-realizing." It is also a key support for building a green and smart digital ecological civilization. Addressing the urgent need for scientific and systematic technical methods in CSPON construction, this paper explores the methodological approach for CSPON algorithm model construction and application. It proposes a CSPON algorithm model technical framework supported by "high-performance computing", "big data", and "large model" technologies, oriented towards "large-scale scenario" applications. The paper illustrates its application in typical spatial planning implementation monitoring scenarios such as safety baseline control, planning transmission control, planning implementation assessment, and spatial pattern optimization through practical cases. The research indicates that: (1) "High-Performance Computing" is the foundation supporting CSPON's growing demands for high-frequency data processing and dynamic computational analysis. It should fully integrate modern computing architectures such as cloud computing, edge computing, and distributed computing to strengthen CSPON's computational foundation. (2) "Big Data" is the cornerstone for constructing and operating CSPON algorithm model systems. The integration and mining of multi-source big data from "space, aerial, ground, sea, and network" can support algorithm models in more comprehensively and accurately characterizing complex spatial systems. (3) "Large Model" is the "intelligent core" of CSPON. The "multi-model parallel use" mode, integrating traditional "small models" like GIS spatial analysis and machine learning algorithms with generative "large models" such as language and vision models, will become the mainstream trend in CSPON algorithm model application and development. (4) "Large-scale Scenarios" serve as the application carrier and target of CSPON. They should establish application scenarios combining "common scenarios" and "personalized scenarios" based on local characteristics and business needs, fully leveraging the roles and advantages of different CSPON algorithm models. The research results provide a scientific basis for accelerating the improvement of CSPON technical methods and their practical application.

  • Landscape Genes and Landscape Restoration
    ZHANG Hao, LI Bo-hua, DOU Yin-di
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(8): 1797-1814. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240804

    Landscape restoration serves as a pivotal means of promoting and disseminating traditional Chinese culture. In the New Era of rural digitalization, how to leverage digital empowerment in traditional village landscape restoration has emerged as a pressing scientific issue critical to facilitating the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional Chinese culture. By using in-depth interviews, GIS spatial analysis, point cloud data extraction and other methods, based on the connotation and characteristics of traditional village landscape restoration and the underlying structure of digital countryside, an analytical framework for the evolution of traditional village landscape restoration under the power of digital technology was constructed. In addition, taking Zhangguying village in Hunan province as a case study, the characteristics and driving mechanisms of its landscape restoration evolution under the power of digital technology have been explored. The research shows that: (1) The evolution of traditional village landscape restoration under the power of digital technology is to incorporate traditional village landscape restoration into the digital information network system, showing the process of integrating the physical space and virtual space of landscape restoration. (2) The evolution of landscape restoration in Zhangguying village exhibits the following characteristics: Streamlining of communication for landscape restoration objects, precision in the presentation of restoration subjects, virtualization of derived functions, and the overall integration of virtual and physical entities. (3) The mechanism of landscape restoration evolution features is the driving mechanism for the development of new tourism formats, which connects the development factors of information technology, the driving factors of digital policies, and the changing factors of consumer demand to the evolution of digital landscape restoration. The three factors are independent and interrelated, and they work together to form a multi-level driving mechanism. With the goal of promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, this paper explores the characteristics and mechanisms of the landscape restoration and evolution of traditional villages, under the aegis of digital technology. It aspires to furnish novel insights, methodologies, and avenues for the creative transformation and innovative advancement of the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

  • Regular Articles
    YANG Xin, XIAO Hao-li, HUANG Chen, WANG Yi-fei
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(9): 2155-2170. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240909

    Based on the ecological network and the social network in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, this paper constructed its "socio-ecological" network by connecting the above two networks and explored their collaborative governance mechanism. The results show that: (1) The ecological network presents a morphological distribution of "three horizontal lines and two vertical lines", with the core concentrated in the border areas of Hunan and Jiangxi. Yichun, Yueyang, Jiujiang, Ji'an and Fuzhou are the core cities in the network. The ecological network has a complex structure and strong anti-interference ability; in the social network, environment collaboration is the main theme of regional cooperation, Wuhan, Changsha, and Nanchang are the core cities of the network. (2) The "social-ecological" network shows that the internal structure of the urban agglomeration is relatively tight, but the overall cohesion is weak. The core of the network is concentrated at the junction of three provinces. The geographical pattern is still an important factor affecting inter-regional cooperation. (3) The core cities in the socio-ecological network were found to have a spatial "mismatch" between social governance and ecological linkages in the urban agglomeration, with Ji'an, Fuzhou and other cities suffering from a "management deficit" phenomenon. (4) The "judicial guarantee+governance mechanism" network and geographical distance exert a significant positive impact in the QAP regression analysis. The entire urban agglomeration is in a collaborative mode with imperfect mechanisms and incomplete judicial protection. Breaking down geographical administrative boundaries and strengthening cooperation mechanisms and judicial connections are highly recommended to provide effective institutional guarantees for regional collaborative governance.

  • Regular Articles
    CHEN Le-wei, ZHANG Zong-yi, LI Hong-bo, ZHANG Xin-pu
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(9): 2188-2205. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240911

    The cost efficiency of agricultural mechanization is an important standard for measuring the production cost of agricultural mechanization, and the level of farmland suitability for agricultural machinery operations (FSAM) is a key factor affecting the cost efficiency of agricultural mechanization. To explore the impact of the level of FSAM on the cost efficiency of agricultural mechanization, this study uses the Cost-C and CCR model in data envelopment analysis to calculate the cost efficiency of agricultural mechanization and its composition and constructs a spatial Durbin empirical model using provincial panel data from 2004 to 2020 for empirical analysis. The results show that: firstly, the cost efficiency of agricultural mechanization is not high in most provincial-level regions of China, especially in hilly areas. Secondly, the two indicators representing the level of FSAM, namely the average labor area of farmland and the flatness of farmland, have a significant positive impact on the technical efficiency and allocative efficiency of agricultural machinery operations, thereby significantly affecting the cost efficiency of agricultural mechanization. For every 1 hectare per capita increase in arable land area, the cost efficiency of agricultural mechanization will increase by 0.695. For every 1 percentage point increase in the proportion of arable land with a slope below 6 degrees, the cost efficiency of agricultural mechanization will increase by 0.009 compared to the original situation. Thirdly, the level of FSAM in neighboring provincial-level regions has a significant positive spatial spillover effect. Due to cross-regional operations, the improvement of the level of FSAM in neighboring provincial-level regions can also enhance the cost efficiency of agricultural mechanization in this region.

  • Tourism Development and Local Construction
    CHEN Pin-yu, ZHAO Yi-zheng, TAO Ru-yu, KONG Xiang
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(8): 1956-1973. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240813

    Place promotion plays an important role in enhancing the attractiveness and competitiveness of a place. The existing studies, however, have focused on the field of urban areas and small towns, and relatively little attention has been paid to the rural areas, especially in promoting the rural nature rather than the historical and cultural heritage. In addition, limited scholarship has investigated the evaluation of place promotion, increasingly making a call to examine the circuit of production and consumption of place image in the actions of place promotion. Taking Xixinan village in Huangshan city, China as a case study, this paper thus comprehensively uses qualitative methods to analyze the construction and communication of place image in such a rural tourism destination, as well as tourists' perception, consumption and feedback of the projected place image. It is found that the local government, centered on the natural landscape of the maple poplar forest, takes advantage of the local ecological environment to construct the image of the 'Wizard of Oz' and actively promote it, marketing it as a romantic place myth. Essentially, the place image of 'The Wizard of Oz' is a version of rural idyll, in which such seductive place promotion caters to people's escape from urban modernity, as well as nostalgia for the countryside. Through the analysis of embodied consumption, it is further found that tourists' consumption behavior and feelings are in line with the setting of rural idyll constructed by the local government, and they show corresponding nuanced characteristics in physical sense, cognition and emotion. Meanwhile, it is also argued that it is not limited to the scope of the previous discourse of place promotion. Tourists' embodied experience reveals their positivity and agency, making sense in the construction of their subjective meaning and the consumption of place. Under the premise of successful place promotion, tourists' rural consumption behavior is able to be fed back to the next round of tourism production, further shaping the rurality of the 'Wizard of Oz' in Xixinan village. By doing so, the consumption of tourists reinforces the representation of the previously established tourist landscape discourse. This paper contributes to the academic debate of 'clarifying the conceptual confusion between place promotion and place marketing and advancing relevant empirical research'. Further, it advances the empirical research agenda of 'circuits of tourism' proposed by Irena Ateljevic by placing the geographical process of this framework in a rural context, and discussing the production and consumption of tourism on the rurality. In practice, this paper provides planning guidance for rural tourism marketing and tourism experience creation.

  • Regular Articles
    DING Nan, LI Yi-bo, TAO Fu-lu
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(7): 1720-1734. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240713

    The Haihe River Basin plays an important role in the sustainable economic development of the national economy and is also one of the most water-scare regions in China. Densely populated, long-term inappropriate human activities and climate change have exacerbated the problems of soil erosion and water scarcity in the region. Therefore, studying the effects of climate change and land use on runoff, sediment, and nitrogen and phosphorus losses in the Haihe River Basin provides not only theoretical support for the early warning of water and sand hazards in the region, but also an important scientific basis for understanding the evolutionary pattern of the basin's ecological environment. In this study, we analyzed the spatial and temporal evolution patterns of climate, land use, evapotranspiration (ET), normalized vegetation index (NDVI), and net primary productivity (NPP) in the Haihe River Basin from 1985 to 2015 and their influence mechanisms. The results show that: (1) There are significant geographical differences in the correlations among the variables (ET, NDVI, NPP, runoff, sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus, etc.) in the six sub-basins of the Haihe River Basin. (2) Temperature and precipitation directly affect runoff, and thus indirectly affect sediment and nitrogen and phosphorus losses. (3) ET is directly affected by both temperature and precipitation, and it directly affects runoff, and then indirectly affects sediment and nitrogen and phosphorus losses. The paper reveals the influence of climate and land use changes on runoff, sediment and nitrogen and phosphorus losses over the past 30 years, which is of great significance to the understanding of the evolution of the ecological environment of the basin and its regulation.

  • Organic Renewal and Vitalization
    DOU Yin-di, LIU Yue-ying, LI Bo-hua
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(8): 1815-1834. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240805

    With the rapid development of new urbanization, the functional attributes and structural characteristics of the human settlement environment in traditional villages are facing numerous uncertainties, and it is especially important to explore the logic action for their renewal and evolution. From the perspective of action science theory, we analyzed the coupling relationship between organic renewal of the human settlement environment in traditional villages and action logic expression, and constructed the logical framework for action and practical path for organic renewal. The study shows that: (1) There is an obvious elemental coupling relationship between the three elements of the action logic expression "subject, occasion and action" and the "subject of action, field of action and action itself" of organic renewal of the human settlement environment in traditional villages. (2) Taking the perspective of multiple subjects as the starting point of the study, drawing on Marxist theory, we constructed an action logic framework from the four dimensions of demand, system, time, and space, and sorted out the inherent logic law of organic renewal of the human settlement environment in traditional villages. (3) Taking the logic of demand coordination, the logic of system mutual promotion, the logic of time control, and the logic of spatial support as the base point, the optimization path of "coordinating the demand and synergy of the subject's governance, upgrading the system and reconfiguration of the subject's relationship, controlling the time sequence of renewal and balancing the rhythm of renewal, and optimizing the space of renewal and interacting with the capital of the field" has been formed. This study aims to explore the future evolution of the logic of action of organic renewal of the human settlement environment in traditional villages, to form an action path characterized by objectivity, mobility and regularity, and to provide reference experience and decision-making basis for the theoretical framework and innovative path of organic renewal of the human settlement environment in traditional villages in China.

  • Regular Articles
    DENG Mao-ying, WEI Xiao-li, ZHANG Guo-jun
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(7): 1682-1697. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240711

    Under the dual-carbon goal, the coordinated evolution of new urbanization and green development is of great significance in promoting China's high-quality economic development. This paper analyzes the characteristics and types of spatial and temporal patterns of the coordinated evolution of new urbanization and green development in 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China from 2005 to 2020 by using entropy method, coupled coordination model and other research methods. The results show that: (1) Both new urbanization and green development levels present a growth pattern. (2) The coordination degree of China's new urbanization and green development generally shows an upward trend; the spatial distribution of the coordination level generally shows a decreasing pattern from the eastern and central regions of the country to the western and northeastern regions. (3) The coordinated evolution is characterized by significant spatial agglomeration, and dominated by HH, LL and HL types. (4) The center of gravity of coordinated evolution shows a trend of migration from northeast to southwest. (5) The coordinated development types are divided into "urbanization first", "green development first" and "synchronous development", of which "urbanization first" is the most dominant and important type. Countermeasures are proposed for provincial-level regions with different types of coordinated development, which will continue to help the coordinated evolution of new urbanization and green development.

  • Regular Articles
    LIU Chun-fang, NI Bo-wen, LIAN Hu-gang, HE Yang-xi
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(9): 2087-2101. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240905

    The ecological and environmental problems such as water scarcity and intensified desertification greatly affect the ecological security and sustainable development of arid inland river basins. Scientific analysis and evaluation of the resilience level of ecological networks under external disturbances are of great significance for proposing targeted optimization plans for this type of river basin ecological network and enhancing its ecological stability. Based on the theory of complex adaptive systems, this paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system of ecological network resilience covering three dimensions: elements, structure and function. Taking the Shiyang River Basin as an example, the paper measures the resilience level of the ecological network in arid inland river basins and analyzes its spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and spatial differentiation patterns. The results show that: (1) The spatial structure of the ecological network in the study area is unbalanced, with uneven aggregation of ecological "source-corridor-node", but the pattern of dense areas in the south and sparse areas in the north is essentially stable. (2) In 2000-2020, the resilience level of the ecological network increased overall, with an annual rate of 1.55%. The resilience of the ecological network in desert and mountainous areas increased faster than that in oasis areas, and the structural resilience improved faster than that of functional resilience and factor resilience. (3) During 2000-2020, the differences in the resilience level of ecological networks in types of mountains, oases and deserts gradually decreased. The proportions of "low-low" agglomeration (LL) and "high-high" agglomeration (HH) were high. LL agglomeration was mainly distributed in the northern desert area, while HH agglomeration was mainly distributed in the southern mountainous area, and both of them had a spatial diffusion trend. Finally, in view of the characteristics of mountains, oases and deserts, this paper proposes strategies to improve the resilience of the basin in the context of ecological restoration from three aspects: elements, structure and function.

  • Regular Articles
    HUANG An, WANG Yan, TIAN Li, LIU Lin-xin-er, XIA Jing, LIANG Yin-long, SUN Min-xuan, ZHUANG Yuan
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(10): 2450-2470. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20241012

    As one of the important subsystems of the global carbon system, the land use system plays a pivotal role in achieving global carbon neutrality. Based on the theoretical analysis and inductive deduction, this paper establishes a theoretical analysis framework for the carbon effect of the land use system from a social-ecological perspective. It summarizes the research history of the carbon effect of the land use system, basic measurement methods, and simulation prediction method systems. Additionally, it initially establishes an optimized path and toolbox for carbon neutrality in the land use system. Currently, basic research on measuring carbon emissions and carbon sequestration in the land use system has matured, and the research focus has shifted from basic research to comprehensive exploration of influencing factors, quantitative prediction and simulation of carbon emission reduction and sequestration enhancement, and carbon neutrality path research. However, several challenges remain: the lack of regional correction for equivalent coefficients in basic carbon emissions and sequestration measurements; the omission of governance dimensions in the theoretical analysis framework, leading to a dearth of collaborative governance scenario simulation studies for optimizing the carbon effect of the land use system among different stakeholders; and the absence of cost-benefit analysis in carbon effect scenario simulations, etc. In the future, more attention should be given to deepen the research on the complex system theoretical framework and perspective of the carbon effect of the land use system, strengthen the research on the governance mechanism and path of the carbon effect of the land use system, and expand the research on the synergistic path of carbon neutrality of the land use system, etc., which will provide theoretical support and practical reference for optimization of national land space in the context of the dual carbon goals.

  • Multi-Functionality and Value Realization
    LI Can, MA Tong-yu
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(8): 1940-1955. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240812

    The effective use of natural resources and the realization of the value of ecological products are the core links in the revitalization of rural industry. Based on a typical case study of Shicha village in Haikou, this paper explores the value realization mechanism of rural ecological products from the perspective of "resource-asset-capital". It is found that the capitalization of rural natural resources presents the conversion path of "value potential-value manifestation-value formation-value realization". Firstly, the village collective needs to judge the characteristics of village ecological resources scientifically, so as to promote the internalization of resource advantages into matching distinctive ecological products. Secondly, it needs to effectively integrate external factors to complete the capitalization of assets with the support of village "two committees" (CPC village committee and the villagers committee), governmental departments, industrial and commercial capital and other forces. Finally, the multidimensional value of ecological products at the economic, ecological and social levels needs to be realized through full product marketization. This paper contributes a new theoretical basis and logical thinking to the study of rural natural resources development, and provides practical inspiration for the development and expansion of new rural collective economy.

  • Landscape Genes and Landscape Restoration
    JIN Xin-long, ZHANG Xue-bin, CHEN Xian-fei, LI Wei
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(8): 1780-1796. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20240803

    Due to the impact of homogeneous construction, interrupted tourism investment, and population outflow, some traditional villages have become spaces where landscape standardization and landscape fragmentation coexist. This article takes the ancient town of Hekou in Lanzhou city, Gansu province as a case study, and uses the DFRI genetic theory and landscape genetic mutation model as the research basis. Starting with landscape genetic sequencing, participatory observation and semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore the mechanism of local landscape genetic variation since the construction of the ancient town project in 2014. The results show that: (1) Capital investment, elite behavior, and ideological changes can activate the response bases in the landscape genes, leading to changes in the base sequence. (2) Capital investment is the physical mechanism and external driving force for inducing landscape genetic variation. The spatial heterogeneity, non-sustainability, and purpose of capital investment in the ancient town project will affect the results of landscape genetic variation. (3) Elite groups driving village practices are the chemical mechanism and practical subjects for inducing landscape genetic variation, and rural governance, tourism development, and intangible cultural heritage inheritance led by the villagers committee and tourism companies can induce cultural landscape construction, improve villagers' quality, and change the livelihood patterns. (4) The change in ideology brought about by urbanization and social transformation is the biological mechanism and potential factor inducing landscape genetic variation. Urban culture, industrial transformation, and cultural evolution can insert into hidden segments of the landscape genes, thereby affecting the results of landscape genetic variation. Based on the analysis of the inducing mechanisms, this article proposes genetic optimization strategies for landscape standardization and fragmentation.

  • Original article
    HE Si-yuan
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(10): 2310-2334. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20241004

    As China's national park system reform enters a crucial phase, effective governance of national parks seeks to leverage the strengths of government, market, and societal entities to establish a multi-actor co-governance structure. National park communities, as a vital component of societal entities, are a key link in fostering effective governance of national parks. Based on literature research, this paper elucidates the underlying logic of communities as critical actors in the governance of China's national parks. It distills the characteristics and challenges of community involvement in national park governance through empirical studies and proposes recommendations for promoting the coordinated development of national parks and communities. The study indicates that, as complex socio-ecological systems, Chinese national parks feature distinct patterns of community-based natural resource utilisation. The necessity of community involvement in national park governance fundamentally lies in the fact that only reasonable multi-actor natural resource governance can sustain harmony between nature and humans. Current community participation in national park governance is influenced by path dependence, context dependence, and financial dependence. Governance effectiveness is affected by structural factors, local cognition, and incentive mechanisms. Based on the analysis of current community participation, this paper further proposes an analytical framework to disentangle the park-people relationship that can be steered to be positive under good governance. Thus, to fully leverage the role of communities as actors in national park governance and achieve coordinated development between national parks and communities, the paper suggests differentiated community management mechanisms, diversified incentives and guarantees, internalisation of external policies, and mainstreaming biodiversity. This approach aims to achieve socio-ecological systems' adaptive governance, foster cooperation among governance entities, realise livelihoods compatible with conservation, and prompt interdepartmental government collaboration to address structural issues. Ultimately, clarifying natural resource property rights, decentralising management authority, and promoting community-led conservation based on local needs and cultural contexts should be central to community empowerment in community governance. To achieve the governance goal of coordination between national parks and community through a multi-actor governance approach, it is necessary to strengthen the power and secure rights of national park communities, with legal protection as the starting point and community self-awareness enhancement as the endpoint. Thus, multidimensional community empowerment, including political, economic, cultural, social, and technical aspects, should be implemented in the process of national park governance.

  • Ecological Protection, Restoration and Mangement
    TANG Hui, PENG Jian, XU Dong-mei, WU Jian-sheng
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2024, 39(12): 2768-2782. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20241202

    Implementing large-scale ecological restoration of territorial space is a key strategy for China to halt ecosystem degradation and promote ecological civilization. As a reference benchmark and target guide for ecological restoration, the reference of ecological restoration is a necessary basis for the smooth implementation of ecological restoration projects. However, there is little research focusing on the ecological restoration reference of terrestrial space. Aiming to know what is ecological restoration reference, what are its characteristics, and how to identify it, in this study we discussed the definition, the identification approach framework, and the directions of future research of ecological restoration reference of territorial space. This study suggested that the reference of ecological restoration of territorial space had three basic characteristics: comprehensiveness of indicators, two-dimensionality of space and time, and dynamic adaptability. The identification framework of ecological restoration reference of territorial space includes three major steps: comprehensive ecosystem assessment, reference ecosystem selection, and reference identification under integrated spatial and temporal dimensions. With the focus on the key issues of Nature-based Solutions, integrated protection and restoration of mountains, water, forests, lakes, grasses and sands, and social-ecological system sustainability, we highlighted that ecological restoration reference identification should place great emphasis on systemic thinking, take sustainability as the core orientation for the selection of reference indicators, and pay attention to the social-ecological system integrated perspective, so as to identify ecological restoration reference based on the social-ecological process and oriented to the comprehensive enhancement of social-ecological system sustainability. This study clearly defined the conceptual connotation and identification framework of ecological restoration reference in terrestrial space, and provided theoretical and methodological support for the orderly promotion of ecological restoration projects.