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Study On Ecological Poverty And Ecological Capital In Chinese Ecologically Fragile Areas

Posted on:2012-05-24Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119330368478295Subject:Political economy
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Looking around the world today, we are in an era of rapid changing and developing, the wealth continues to accumulation and the environment continues to deteriorate, the population continues to grow, science and technology are in innovation, but for most of the world, their target is only to survive in the condition of limited resources. Even today the development and progress of science and technology, the rapid accumulation of wealth, some people in many parts of the world are still have been struggling on the edge of survival, they can only rely on limited local resources closely.Abundant natural resources and good ecological environment is the basis for human survival, and the necessary conditions of economic sustainable development. In the first half of the 20th century Self-sufficiency for the economically developed areas of agriculture life come to an end, and also in the latter half the expansion of economic and technology has produced a global impact for the ecological environment. In the recent years, the environmental threats attention turned to climate warming. To slow global warming, the most fundamental way is to change the economic development model, so that the energy consumption way transform from high carbon to low carbon, to explore a solution that both can use ecological capital and control ecological poverty. Especially for the majority of developing countries, it is necessary to develop the economy, eradicate the poverty, but also the developing does not follow the old path of pollution first and then treatment.Chinese population growing, rapid economic development and the accompanying ecological damage, made a serious shortage of natural resources, the serious ecological situation, which cannot meet the rising demand for ecological products. The more and more prominent ecological poverty, not only restricted the economic development, hindered the improvement of people's living standards, affect social stability in the long run, will affect the nation's survival and development and economic sustainable development.Ecological poverty is the dual poverty of economy and ecology, which makes agricultural production in poor areas of China are in a vicious circle. Many poor areas not only lack the resources, but also the waste of resources is also very serious, which makes the already very fragile agro-ecological environment even worse, seriously affecting the development of agriculture and sustainable development.Effective and rational management of ecological poverty, particularly in ecological fragile areas, becomes more important. How did the ecological poverty in ecological fragile areas formed? Which role the ecological capital played? What is the relationship between ecological poverty and ecological capital? How can effective management of ecological poverty? With these questions, we established the topics of ecological poverty and ecological capital in the ecological fragility.Chapter 0 is the introduction. This presented the background and significance of ecological poverty in the ecologically fragile areas, explained and defined the concepts related to this article, and to determine the research methods of this article briefly, explained the idea of this study and the main content of this article, described the research methods and data sources, and gave the innovative and weaknesses.Chapterâ… is the basis relevant theories and the research framework. First, the theories of ecological economics and complex adaptive was combed, the previous studies were reviewed in accordance with the ecological environment, ecological resources, ecological economic systems, ecological capital and ecological poverty. Second, we built the two-dimensional analytical framework of the ecological economic system on the basis of complex adaptive theory, as the theoretical model of this paper. Finally, put forward three theory hypotheses:â‘ the relationship between the degree of fragile ecological environment and the incidence of poverty in the ecologically fragile areas is positive correlation;â‘¡ecological capital is the most significant factor of the ecological poverty;â‘¢the relationship between the ecological poverty and the ecological capital in the ecologically fragile areas is negative correlation. Chapterâ…¡is the status and its verification of the ecological poverty in ecologically fragile areas. According to the definition of ecologically fragile areas from the State Environmental Protection Department, identified the areas of this study, brief analysis the distribution of ecological fragile areas in three regions, found that the areas of ecological fragility and the areas of economic poverty are coupling on the geographical distribution, and using data to test, confirmed the first theory hypothesis:the relationship between the degree of fragile ecological environment and the incidence of poverty in the ecologically fragile areas is positive correlation.Chapterâ…¢is the Interactive Game of ecological poverty and ecological capital in perspective of CAS. Analyzed the overall value of ecological capital and found that many reasons have led to the ecological capital depreciation. What chain reaction of the ecological capital depreciation will cause? In perspective of CAS, using the two dimensions of the main theoretical framework to analysis the ecological poverty, ecological poverty, we form a dual system layer subject cognition:The first level is the subsystem subject. At this level, ecological poverty includes three subsystem subjects, they are population, economic and ecological capital. This interaction between the three subsystems, you can use the "PPE vicious circle" to explain; the second level is the micro subject. At this level, ecological poverty includes four micro subjects, they are the control subject, product subject, consume subject and restore subject. Their mutual influence, mutual adaptation, coordination, impacts the value-added status of the ecological capital, together constitutes the ecological poverty system.Chapterâ…£is measuring the control subject of ecological poverty in ecologically fragile areas, and Empirical Analysis the correlation between ecological capital and ecological poverty. We influenced the measurement indicator system framework of ecological poverty in ecologically fragile areas, and use EViews to measure, analysis the impact factors and the mechanism of ecological poverty in ecologically fragile areas from an empirical point. This confirmed the second and third hypothesis:the ecological capital change rate has the most significant impact on the poverty change rate, and this effect showed a negative correlation between the two, namely, the change correlation of ecological capital and poverty was negative. Rational management of ecological capital and promote ecological capital are appreciate for controlling ecologically poor.Chapter V is the concept choice and institutional arrangements of ecological poverty. This argues that for the ecological poverty in the ecologically fragile areas, the most appropriate treatment approach is by making the reasonable value of ecological capital. Economic rationality and ecological rationality gradually integrate to ecological economic rationality under the eco-cultural and eco-system induction. Under the ecological economic rationality, the behavior code of subjects has also changed, ecological consumption, ecological industry, recycling industry and green GDP booms, ecological fragile areas should seize the opportunity to promote the ecological capital appreciation, by regional ecological systems Reconstruction and ecological economy development to achieve sustainable development in ecological fragile areas.Chapter VI is the conclusion and outlook. Summary and review the full-text.This article may generally have the following innovations:(1) "Ecological poverty" concept itself is a reference of Chinese characteristics, research abroad in this area are based on the increased interaction between the general economy and environment. Domestic research on the ecology poverty are a few, and most remain on the mechanism and the correlation between poverty and Fragile environment, the study about the relevance of ecological poverty and ecological capital has few, this article will explore in this regard.(2) According to the theory of complex adaptive, created the two dimensions analysis frame, subsystem subject and game subject, of ecological poverty in ecological fragile areas, have some originality.(3) On the basis of this theoretical framework, trying to quantify the ecological poverty, empirical test the relevance of ecological poverty and ecological capital, to verify the theoretical hypothesis, to provide a basis for relevant policy recommendationsDue to time and data factors, the deficiencies of this paper are the following aspects.(1) The framework of analysis and empirical testing is still relatively rough, the characteristics and mutual adaptability of the subjects do not reflect obvious enough. (2) The good panel dates of ecological poverty are difficult to obtain, the selected measure of each subject is not very accurate, so that the explanatory power of the model resulting is not very good; ecological capital has not continuous data, so that Chapter V can only analysis by cross section data, making the shortcomings of the empirical part.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ecologically Fragile Areas, Ecological Poverty, Ecological Capital, Complex Adaptive, Game
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