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Feedback and Trigger of Household Decision-Making to Ecological Protection Policies in Sanjiangyuan National Park

Ignoring the responses of local households to ecological protection policies can not only seriously limit sustainable development of the alpine grassland ecosystem, but also not improve livelihood on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). It is of vital importance to clearly understand coupling feedback...

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Autores principales: Su, Xukun, Shen, Yu, Dong, Shikui, Liu, Yuqing, Cheng, Hao, Wan, Lingfan, Liu, Guohua
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35111189
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.827618
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author Su, Xukun
Shen, Yu
Dong, Shikui
Liu, Yuqing
Cheng, Hao
Wan, Lingfan
Liu, Guohua
author_facet Su, Xukun
Shen, Yu
Dong, Shikui
Liu, Yuqing
Cheng, Hao
Wan, Lingfan
Liu, Guohua
author_sort Su, Xukun
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description Ignoring the responses of local households to ecological protection policies can not only seriously limit sustainable development of the alpine grassland ecosystem, but also not improve livelihood on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). It is of vital importance to clearly understand coupling feedback and trigger between household decision-making of local herdsmen with the implementation of ecological protection policies. We selected Sanjiangyuan National Park (SNP) as the study area which was in the hinterland of the QTP and the first national park in China. We used the global rangeland (G-Range) model to simulate alpine grassland changes and DEcisions under Conditions of Uncertainty by Modeled Agents (DECUMA) model to identify household decision-making of local herdsmen. Results showed that: (1) distribution of livestock density was basically consistent with the distribution of habitat suitability of local households in the SNP; (2) more than half of the uneducated households (52 and 70%) opposed the eco-compensation and eco-migration policies; (3) most of the households (53.7%) never traded livestock for maintaining their livelihood; and (4) When local households owed 65,000 yuan (≈10,000 dollars) in debts, as the critical value (trigger), they traded livestock to support their livelihood. We suggest that feedback and trigger of household decision-making should be fully considered by managers of national park and policymakers of local governments in planning ecological protection policies to maintain sustainable development of alpine grassland, which is of practical significance to long-term conservation and sustainable utilization of natural resources in the SNP.
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spelling pubmed-88017982022-02-01 Feedback and Trigger of Household Decision-Making to Ecological Protection Policies in Sanjiangyuan National Park Su, Xukun Shen, Yu Dong, Shikui Liu, Yuqing Cheng, Hao Wan, Lingfan Liu, Guohua Front Plant Sci Plant Science Ignoring the responses of local households to ecological protection policies can not only seriously limit sustainable development of the alpine grassland ecosystem, but also not improve livelihood on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). It is of vital importance to clearly understand coupling feedback and trigger between household decision-making of local herdsmen with the implementation of ecological protection policies. We selected Sanjiangyuan National Park (SNP) as the study area which was in the hinterland of the QTP and the first national park in China. We used the global rangeland (G-Range) model to simulate alpine grassland changes and DEcisions under Conditions of Uncertainty by Modeled Agents (DECUMA) model to identify household decision-making of local herdsmen. Results showed that: (1) distribution of livestock density was basically consistent with the distribution of habitat suitability of local households in the SNP; (2) more than half of the uneducated households (52 and 70%) opposed the eco-compensation and eco-migration policies; (3) most of the households (53.7%) never traded livestock for maintaining their livelihood; and (4) When local households owed 65,000 yuan (≈10,000 dollars) in debts, as the critical value (trigger), they traded livestock to support their livelihood. We suggest that feedback and trigger of household decision-making should be fully considered by managers of national park and policymakers of local governments in planning ecological protection policies to maintain sustainable development of alpine grassland, which is of practical significance to long-term conservation and sustainable utilization of natural resources in the SNP. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8801798/ /pubmed/35111189 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.827618 Text en Copyright © 2022 Su, Shen, Dong, Liu, Cheng, Wan and Liu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Su, Xukun
Shen, Yu
Dong, Shikui
Liu, Yuqing
Cheng, Hao
Wan, Lingfan
Liu, Guohua
Feedback and Trigger of Household Decision-Making to Ecological Protection Policies in Sanjiangyuan National Park
title Feedback and Trigger of Household Decision-Making to Ecological Protection Policies in Sanjiangyuan National Park
title_full Feedback and Trigger of Household Decision-Making to Ecological Protection Policies in Sanjiangyuan National Park
title_fullStr Feedback and Trigger of Household Decision-Making to Ecological Protection Policies in Sanjiangyuan National Park
title_full_unstemmed Feedback and Trigger of Household Decision-Making to Ecological Protection Policies in Sanjiangyuan National Park
title_short Feedback and Trigger of Household Decision-Making to Ecological Protection Policies in Sanjiangyuan National Park
title_sort feedback and trigger of household decision-making to ecological protection policies in sanjiangyuan national park
topic Plant Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35111189
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.827618
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