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Professor Jiayu Xu is a Professor at the School of Environment at the Tsinghua University. Her research targets sustainable development and sustainability transition.
Building landscape resilience inspires the cultivation of the landscape’s capacity to recover from disruption and live with changes and uncertainties. However, integrating ecosystem and society within such a unified lens—that is, socio–ecological system (SES) resilience—clashes with many cornerstone concepts in social science, such as power, democracy, rights, and culture. In short, a landscape cannot provide the same values to everyone. However, can building landscape resilience be an effective and just environmental management strategy? Research on this question is limited. A scoping literature review was conducted first to synthesise and map landscape management change based on 111,653 records. Then, we used the Nuozhadu (NZD) catchment as a case study to validate our findings from the literature. We summarised current critiques and created a framework including seven normative categories, or common difficulties, namely resilience for “whom”, “what”, “when”, “where”, “why”, as well as “can” and “how” we apply resilience normatively. We found that these difficulties are overlooked and avoided despite their instructive roles to achieve just landscape management more transparently. Without clear targets and boundaries in building resilience, we found that some groups consume resources and services at the expense of others. The NZD case demonstrates that a strategy of building the NZD’s resilience has improved the conservation of the NZD’s forest ecosystems but overlooked trade-offs between sustaining people and the environment, and between sustainable development for people at different scales. Future researchers, managers, and decision-makers are thereby needed to think resilience more normatively and address the questions in the “seven difficulties” framework before intervening to build landscape resilience.
Hongzhang Xu; Meng Peng; Jamie Pittock; Jiayu Xu. Managing Rather Than Avoiding “Difficulties” in Building Landscape Resilience. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2629 .
AMA StyleHongzhang Xu, Meng Peng, Jamie Pittock, Jiayu Xu. Managing Rather Than Avoiding “Difficulties” in Building Landscape Resilience. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (5):2629.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHongzhang Xu; Meng Peng; Jamie Pittock; Jiayu Xu. 2021. "Managing Rather Than Avoiding “Difficulties” in Building Landscape Resilience." Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2629.
China’s coal consumption has made up more than 70% of China’s energy assumption since 1978, and it accounts for approximately 21% of global carbon emissions in 2017. How China reach clean air targets, fulfill its commitment to reduce CO2 emission in the Paris Agreement, and achieve higher targets, such as peak CO2 emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero emission by 2060? A range of sustainability experiments have been conducted to support China’s sustainability transition. As the biggest one among them, the Yangtze River Economic Belt runs across the middle of the country from east to west, with an area of 2,050,000 km2 or 21.39% of China’s territory, and covers 11 provinces and cities. Although many studies have been conducted relevant to the Belt, few studies have described the research landscape, trends, and relevant topics of interest and gaps. To address these gaps, we review, synthesize, and analyze the latest publications on the Belt and find environmental governance has been the key topic in current publications. Significantly, atmospheric and climate governance may be used as a lens to understand China’s environmental governance, human-environmental interactions and trade-offs between environmental protection and socio-economic development in the Belt. Based on this lens, we find that: I. current research on the Belt has started and increased rapidly in the past five years, but our knowledge on it as a cross-boundary, cross-level and cross-sector sustainability experiment is somewhat limited; II. distribution of risk and responsibility across different regions in atmospheric and climate governance has not been well-addressed; III. new carbon emission accounting methods, especially methods based on a consumption-based approach, could be adopted to offer more comprehensive and just understandings about sectoral differences and environmental benefits; IV. influence of topography and meteorology on ambient air quality in the Belt cannot be ignored and should be included by the following research; and V. trade-offs and competing interests among different actors should be recognized and balanced to facilitate sustainable industrial upgrading, innovation and transforming without compromising individual well-being and regional development.
Meng Peng; Hongzhang Xu; Chenfei Qu; Jiayu Xu; Liurui Chen; Lei Duan; Jiming Hao. Understanding China’s largest sustainability experiment: Atmospheric and climate governance in the Yangtze river economic belt as a lens. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 290, 125760 .
AMA StyleMeng Peng, Hongzhang Xu, Chenfei Qu, Jiayu Xu, Liurui Chen, Lei Duan, Jiming Hao. Understanding China’s largest sustainability experiment: Atmospheric and climate governance in the Yangtze river economic belt as a lens. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 290 ():125760.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMeng Peng; Hongzhang Xu; Chenfei Qu; Jiayu Xu; Liurui Chen; Lei Duan; Jiming Hao. 2020. "Understanding China’s largest sustainability experiment: Atmospheric and climate governance in the Yangtze river economic belt as a lens." Journal of Cleaner Production 290, no. : 125760.
Jian Wu; Jiayu Xu; Jiming Hao. Evaluation of Measures for Comprehensive Environmental Control in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region. Chinese Journal of Engineering Science 2019, 21, 99 -105.
AMA StyleJian Wu, Jiayu Xu, Jiming Hao. Evaluation of Measures for Comprehensive Environmental Control in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region. Chinese Journal of Engineering Science. 2019; 21 (5):99-105.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJian Wu; Jiayu Xu; Jiming Hao. 2019. "Evaluation of Measures for Comprehensive Environmental Control in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region." Chinese Journal of Engineering Science 21, no. 5: 99-105.
Jia-Yu Xu; Yang Gao. [Seasonal variations of carbonyl compounds in urban atmosphere of Beijing]. Huan jing ke xue= Huanjing kexue 2009, 30, 1 .
AMA StyleJia-Yu Xu, Yang Gao. [Seasonal variations of carbonyl compounds in urban atmosphere of Beijing]. Huan jing ke xue= Huanjing kexue. 2009; 30 (3):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJia-Yu Xu; Yang Gao. 2009. "[Seasonal variations of carbonyl compounds in urban atmosphere of Beijing]." Huan jing ke xue= Huanjing kexue 30, no. 3: 1.