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  • Ecological Products Value Realization in Natural Resources: Theory and Practice
    XIE Hua-lin, LI Zhi-yuan
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2023, 38(12): 2933-2949. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20231201

    The realization of the value of ecological products in the field of natural resources is a key path to implement the transformation concept of "two mountains" and promote ecological benefits and economic development. The existing ecological product value realization mechanism and local practice mode have problems such as single governance subject and insufficient driving force of participating subject. Therefore, this paper analyzes the theoretical logic of ecological product value realization in the field of natural resources with the help of multi-agent collaborative governance theory. Based on this, a multi-agent collaborative mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products in the field of natural resources is designed with the "production-supply-sales" mechanism, the value co-creation mechanism of ecological products in the field of natural resources and the information exchange mechanism of ecological products in the field of natural resources as the core elements. This will help expand the value realization model of land resource ecological products, water resource ecological products, forest resource ecological products, wetland resource ecological products. Guided by the multi-subject cooperative mechanism of ecological product value realization in the field of natural resources, we create a new pattern of ecological product value realization with multi-subject co-governance.

  • Ecological Products Value Realization in Natural Resources: Theory and Practice
    YOU He-yuan, ZHANG Jin-rong, XIA Shu-yi
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2023, 38(12): 2950-2965. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20231202

    Land use optimization in comprehensive land consolidation can meet the different demands for land under different objectives and alleviate potential land use conflicts. The national pilot project of comprehensive land consolidation in Danzhou city in Hainan province is selected as a case in this study. This paper sets two scenarios for comprehensive land consolidation including ecological value priority and realization potential of ecological product value priority under the trade-off between the increasing ecological value and realization potential of ecological product value. And the land use optimization is based on the third national land resource survey of the pilot project. Then the multi-objective programming model and GeoSOS-FLUS model are employed to optimize the land use structure and land use layout under two scenarios in comprehensive land consolidation. The results show that: (1) Compared to the land use status in 2019, the areas of mangrove forest and paddy field significantly increase under the ecological value priority scenario in the pilot project zone. The overall landscape exhibits a high level of polymerization, while evenness and fragmentation levels are relatively high. (2) Compared to the ecological value priority scenario, the areas of mangrove forest and paddy field decrease under the realization potential of the ecological product value priority scenario in the pilot project zone. And the areas of commercial and service land significantly increase. The level of landscape fragmentation of the overall landscape increases as well. (3) There are similarities and differences between the land use layout under the two scenarios and the construction project layout of comprehensive land consolidation in the Implementation Plan for the National Pilot Project of Comprehensive Land Consolidation in the Starting Zone of Danzhou City. Therefore, the areas and spatial layout of different types of land for increasing ecological value and realizing the potential of ecological product value should be considered overall in the comprehensive land consolidation. Meanwhile, we should pay attention to the effects of land use optimization on the landscape.

  • Ecological Products Value Realization in Natural Resources: Theory and Practice
    SHENG Rong
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2023, 38(12): 2966-2985. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20231203

    Improving the supply efficiency of ecological products is of great value for its stable, sustainable provision and the public ecological welfare. This paper calculates the supply value of ecological products through dynamically adjusted per unit area value equivalent method, and the supply efficiency through the super efficiency SBM model and Malmquist index. The it explores the influencing factors of efficiency improvement from perspectives of technology and institution. The results show that technological innovation and financial subsidy only obviously improves the pure technical efficiency change (PEC). But the financial subsidy negatively influences the scale efficiency change (SEC). The ecological products consumption willingness obviously improves the efficiency change (MI) and pure technical efficiency change (PEC). The rural back-feeding value improves the scale efficiency change (SEC). The positive influence on SEC from rural back-feeding provides a make-up for the absence of stimulus for SEC from technological innovation and financial subsidy, forming an institutional integration advantage for efficiency improvement. It is to strengthen ecological consumption willingness and rural back-feeding institutions. The informal institutional construction such as ecological consumption and rural back-feeding value is supposed to be a long-lasting mechanism. Based on the urban-rural co-development, the market-centered production element circulation and profiting mechanism should be built in the ecological product input-output process. The ecological production supply efficiency is supposed to be comprehensively improved.

  • Ecological Products Value Realization in Natural Resources: Theory and Practice
    LI Ying-ying, CHEN Cheng, CAO Hui, GAO Jin-long, CHEN Jiang-long
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2023, 38(12): 2986-3002. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20231204

    Research on the commodification of ecological products has important implications for guiding the ecological transformation of current economic and social development. In this paper, we take the Yangtze River Delta as a case study and employ data related to agro-product geographical indication, point of interest (POI) and enterprises in 2022. With the help of ArcGIS and SPSS Software, we explore the spatial pattern and determinants of rural ecological products commodification in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). In the first place, we use the method of Kernel Density Analysis to explore the spatial pattern of rural ecological products commodification in the study area. In the second place, based on economic demand and supply, we take the natural resource endowment and market economic conditions as the factor layer to construct a determinants index system to explain the commodification pattern. In the third place, we compare the GWR model with the traditional OLS model to further investigate the determinants of the commodification pattern in the YRD. Based on the analysis, the primary conclusions can be summarized as follows. (1) The commodification pattern exhibited agglomeration characteristics in Southern Jiangsu and Northern Zhejiang. Up to now, three high-density areas have been formed: Huzhou-Hangzhou, the coast of Lake Taihu, and Hefei city. In addition, sub-high-density areas have been formed in the suburbs of many large cities. (2) The market economy is the main factor affecting the formation of commodification pattern, in which regional traffic conditions, per capita disposable income of urban residents, and industrial base of service industry have significant positive effects. (3) In the model selection, we compare the GWR model with the traditional OLS model. The result shows that GWR is better, indicating that the impact of the indicators varies across space. In coastal areas, the commodification pattern is greatly affected by the regional traffic conditions. In areas with a higher level of economic development, the positive impact of the per capita disposable income index of urban residents is more significant. In areas with a developed service industry, the positive effect of the service industry base is more significant, while the negative impact brought by long-term agricultural production is weaker.

  • Ecological Products Value Realization in Natural Resources: Theory and Practice
    SHI Min-jun, CHEN Ling-nan, WANG Jin-nan
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2023, 38(7): 1784-1796. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20230710

    With the practical exploration of the transformation mechanism of "Green is Gold" in local communities, the development of ecological industries has gradually become an important component of the construction of ecological civilization. Some scholars proposed that eco-products should be defined as the "fourth sector" of products parallel to agricultural products, industrial products and service products, and put forward the concept of the quaternary industry of ecological products. However, since the quaternary industry of ecological products is a new concept, its concept connotation, scope boundary and accounting framework still need to be further clarified. Based on the essential characteristics of the quaternary industry of ecological products, which focuses on ecological resources as the key input factor, this paper extends the Romer production function which describes the industrial production process by separating out the ecological resources from the input factors, and discusses the connotation of the concept of the quaternary industry of ecological products on the basis of the new production function. This paper suggests that the products of the quaternary industry of ecological products are the final goods or services created by the combined inputs of ecological resources, manufactured capital, human capital, labor and other factors, among which ecological resources are the key input factor that is difficult to be replaced. The quaternary sector focuses on the contribution of ecological resources inputs to the value of the final goods and services, and therefore the ecological products that take the final form of operational products are the major focus of the quaternary sector. On this basis, this paper discusses the relationship between Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP), Inclusive Wealth (IW) and the quaternary sector of ecological products. In addition, this paper proposes an idea for the construction of the quaternary sector accounting framework based on the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) and the input-occupancy-output technique. We add rows and columns to the input-occupancy-output table and separate the quaternary sector, so as to quantify the flow and stock forms of the new production function, which will be useful for us to calculate the contribution from ecological resource inputs as part of the value of eco-products.

  • Ecological Products Value Realization in Natural Resources: Theory and Practice
    QI Xiao-xing, SUN Jie, LI Jian-chun
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2023, 38(7): 1797-1814. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20230711

    Ecological agricultural products have a first-mover advantage in the ecological product value realization system due to relatively complete market conditions. Taking the realization of the value of ecological agricultural products as the background, this study analyzes the behavior patterns of government, agribusiness and consumers under different policies through the evolutionary game analysis and simulation, using Wendeng cherry as a typical case. Moreover, the research divides the support policy of ecological agricultural products into two stages: the certification stage and the additional subsidy stage, emphasizing that additional subsidies occur in situations where there is already a clear certification policy but its promotion effect on the realization of the value of ecological agricultural products is not ideal. The results indicate that: Firstly, the "certification plus subsidy" policy can effectively improve the realization of the value of ecological agricultural products. The desired equilibrium would be achieved under harsh conditions if certification-only policies are implemented, but the desired equilibrium is likely to be significantly enhanced with additional subsidy policies. Second, the sensitivity analysis results after additional subsidies show that: (1) After the implementation of additional subsidy, the economic costs and reputation loss of the subsidy policy replace the certification policy, which plays a decisive role in the convergence of the system. The impact of certification administration costs on the game system is significantly reduced, but certification costs still have a significant negative impact on the direction and speed of system convergence. (2) The desired equilibrium is negatively affected by high subsidy costs and subsidy administration costs, low government inaction reputation loss and government reputation benefits after policy success, low net income from ecological agricultural product production, and low consumer utility of ecological agricultural products. (3) If the abuse of consumer subsidies brings too high subsidy management costs, the system will not be able to converge to the desired equilibrium. (4) The scale effect has a positive impact on the system convergence, but the marginal effect shows a decreasing trend. Therefore, the study suggests that the government should introduce certification and producer subsidy policies at this stage to promote the realization of the value of ecological agricultural products.

  • Ecological Products Value Realization in Natural Resources: Theory and Practice
    GAO Pan, LIANG Liu-tao, ZHU Pei-xin
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2023, 38(7): 1815-1832. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20230712

    Drawing on Marx's theory of expanded reproduction, this paper argues that the key to enhancing the supply of public ecological products from agricultural land lies in effectively harnessing the value of these products and increasing and greening the scale of agricultural land. To this end, the paper employs both the emergy method and grey correlation analysis to conduct an empirical examination of the supply of public ecological products from agricultural land in Henan province and the factors that influence the supply. The results of the quantitative analysis indicate that during the period of 2000-2020, the overall supply of public ecological products from agricultural land in Henan showed a growth trend, with carbon sequestration and oxygen release being the main types of these products. Ecological damage, overall, presents a fluctuating upward trend, with soil heavy metal pollution being the main type of ecological damage. In addition, the damage caused by public ecological products in the province on the supply of public ecological products from agricultural land shows a decreasing trend, but as of 2020, the ecological damage in Henan still reduced 8.57% of the ecological supply. In this regard, the key driving factors of the current supply of ecological products from agricultural land are the expansionary reproduction behaviors of agricultural land production scale. However, the lack of mechanism for realizing the value of public ecological products from agricultural land and the decline in the level of green utilization of agricultural land hinder the further enhancement of the ecological products supply from agricultural land. Based on this, we propose different paths for enhancing public ecological products from agricultural land from the perspective of realizing the value of ecological products: improving the top-level mechanism, enhancing market transaction path, and stimulating market demand; from the stand of green utilization of agriculture, we propose: reducing the use of chemical fertilizers, converting irrigation mode, innovating and promoting of green planting technology. Taken together, our findings can provide the theoretical reference and directional guidance for relieving the contradiction between the people's growing demand for an agreeable ecological environment and the unbalanced and insufficient development.

  • Ecological Products Value Realization in Natural Resources: Theory and Practice
    JIN Xue, SUN Xue-tao
    JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES. 2023, 38(7): 1833-1847. https://doi.org/10.31497/zrzyxb.20230713

    Promoting eco-friendly agricultural products supply is not only the requirement of rural ecological revitalization, but also the inevitable trend in agricultural modernization. The development of information technology provides a new path for farmers to supply agricultural ecological products. In the paper, we use probit model to analyze the impact of Internet use on the supply of farmers' agricultural ecological products based on farmers-level data. The empirical results show that the use of the Internet has improved the farmers' enthusiasm for the supply of agricultural ecological products, to a certain extent. There is an endogenous relationship between Internet use and farmers' willingness to supply agricultural ecological product, meanwhile the existence of endogeneity will overestimate the impact of Internet use on agricultural ecological product supply. Compared with farmers with low human capital, Internet use can enhance the enthusiasm of farmers with high human capital in providing agricultural ecological products. Compared with part-time farmers and non-farmers, the use of the Internet can enhance pure farmers' enthusiasm for the supply of agricultural ecological products. The use of the Internet will also have an intermediary effect on the farmers' enthusiasm for the supply of agricultural ecological products through social capital. Based on the empirical analysis, this paper puts forward three policy suggestions to enhance the farmers' enthusiasm agricultural ecological product supply from the perspective of Internet use.