Cargando…
Botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction
The concept of eco-civilisation refers to the need for human affairs to be contained within the limits set by nature. Plants play such fundamental roles in the functioning of ecosystems and economies that due attention must be given to them for eco-civilisation to be achieved. Species are the basic...
Autores principales: | , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
KeAi Publishing
2017
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112276/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30159493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2016.12.003 |
_version_ | 1783350817566228480 |
---|---|
author | Hamilton, Alan Pei, Shengji Yang, Lixin |
author_facet | Hamilton, Alan Pei, Shengji Yang, Lixin |
author_sort | Hamilton, Alan |
collection | PubMed |
description | The concept of eco-civilisation refers to the need for human affairs to be contained within the limits set by nature. Plants play such fundamental roles in the functioning of ecosystems and economies that due attention must be given to them for eco-civilisation to be achieved. Species are the basic functional units of the plant world and, taking a long term perspective, their conservation with their genetic diversity should be a primary objective in eco-civilisation construction. However, standard procedures used for plant conservation have met with only limited success. Therefore, plant conservationists need social allies to boost their efforts – referring to elements of society whose primary interests in eco-civilisation construction are different, but whose efforts, if successful, will bring benefits to plant conservation too. Potential allies can be identified using an ecosystem system services framework showing how benefits received from the delivery of ecosystem services overlap with those that favour conservation of plant diversity. The concept of eco-civilisation was adopted officially in China in 2014 as a principle guiding its future development. A project at Ludian, Yunnan Province, is used to show the relationships between an ecosystem services framework and a conservation initiative. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6112276 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2017 |
publisher | KeAi Publishing |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-61122762018-08-29 Botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction Hamilton, Alan Pei, Shengji Yang, Lixin Plant Divers Article The concept of eco-civilisation refers to the need for human affairs to be contained within the limits set by nature. Plants play such fundamental roles in the functioning of ecosystems and economies that due attention must be given to them for eco-civilisation to be achieved. Species are the basic functional units of the plant world and, taking a long term perspective, their conservation with their genetic diversity should be a primary objective in eco-civilisation construction. However, standard procedures used for plant conservation have met with only limited success. Therefore, plant conservationists need social allies to boost their efforts – referring to elements of society whose primary interests in eco-civilisation construction are different, but whose efforts, if successful, will bring benefits to plant conservation too. Potential allies can be identified using an ecosystem system services framework showing how benefits received from the delivery of ecosystem services overlap with those that favour conservation of plant diversity. The concept of eco-civilisation was adopted officially in China in 2014 as a principle guiding its future development. A project at Ludian, Yunnan Province, is used to show the relationships between an ecosystem services framework and a conservation initiative. KeAi Publishing 2017-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6112276/ /pubmed/30159493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2016.12.003 Text en © 2017 Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hamilton, Alan Pei, Shengji Yang, Lixin Botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction |
title | Botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction |
title_full | Botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction |
title_fullStr | Botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction |
title_full_unstemmed | Botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction |
title_short | Botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction |
title_sort | botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112276/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30159493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2016.12.003 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT hamiltonalan botanicalaspectsofecocivilisationconstruction AT peishengji botanicalaspectsofecocivilisationconstruction AT yanglixin botanicalaspectsofecocivilisationconstruction |