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Ecosystem services to support sustainable development: The modifiable areal unit problem in the transition between evaluation and management units

Zhu, Wenjie  
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Jin, Xiaobin
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Zhang, Xiaolin
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May 1, 2024
Sustainable Development

Understanding the role of ecosystem services (ES) and their interactions at different spatial scales in territorial space governance is crucial for sustainable development. However, a unified analysis of scale and zoning effects on ES supporting sustainable development remains a theoretical and practical gap. Therefore, this study utilized the traditional concept of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) to establish the ES-MAUP framework. Additionally, the highly urbanized region of Southern Jiangsu, China, was selected as a case study area to quantitatively evaluate four typical regulating ecosystem services in 2020: urban cooling (UC), flood mitigation (FM), soil conservation (SC), and net primary productivity (NPP). The spatial characteristic information of these four ES was effectively preserved with increasing spatial scale. Significant differences existed in the hotspot patterns of NPP, UC, and SC among different zoning units. Across the three zoning units, the correlations between NPP-UC, NPP-SC, and UC-SC exhibited consistent positive trends, while notable differences in correlations between other ES pairs, such as NPP-FM and UC-FM.

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DOI
10.1002/sd.3030
Author(s)
Zhu, Wenjie  
Jin, Xiaobin
Zhang, Xiaolin
Liu, Jingping
Zhou, Yinkang
Date Issued

2024-05-01

Publisher

Wiley

Published in
Sustainable Development
Volume

32

Issue

6

Start page

6253

End page

6273

Subjects

ecosystem services

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MAUP

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Southern Jiangsu

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trade-offs and synergies

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wavelet analysis

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REVIEWED

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LAND  
FunderGrant Number

National Natural Science Foundation of China

42271259 ; 42371284

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March 14, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/247848
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