Moving toward a Greener China: Is China’s National Park Pilot Program a Solution?
department or school: Forestry, Faculty of
department or school: Alumni
department or school: Non UBC
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identifier citation: Land 9 (12): 489 (2020)
contributor: University of British Columbia. National Parks Research Center
creator: Sheng, Gonghan
creator: Chen, Heyuan
creator: Ferretti-Gallon, Kalifi
creator: Innes, John L.
creator: Wang, Zhongjun
creator: Zhang, Yujun
creator: Wang, Guangyu
issued: 2021-01-07T16:30:59Z
issued: 2020-12-02
description: National parks have been adopted for over a century to enhance the protection of valued natural landscapes in countries worldwide. For decades, China has emphasized the importance of economic growth over ecological health to the detriment of its protected areas. After decades of environmental degradation, dramatic loss of biodiversity, and increasing pressure from the public to improve and protect natural landscapes, China’s central government recently proposed the establishment of a pilot national park system to address these issues. This study provides an overview of the development of selected conventional protected areas (CPAs) and the ten newly established pilot national parks (PNPs). A literature review was conducted to synthesize the significant findings from previous studies, and group workshops were conducted to integrate expert knowledge. A qualitative analysis was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot national park system. The results of this study reveal that the PNP system could be a potential solution to the two outstanding issues facing CPAs, namely the economic prioritization over social and ecological considerations that causes massive ecological degradation, and the conflicting, overlapping, and inconsistent administrative and institutional structures that result in serious inefficiencies and conflicts.
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note: landReviewMoving toward a Greener China: Is China’s NationalPark Pilot Program a Solution?Gonghan Sheng 1, Heyuan Chen 1 , Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon 1 , John L. Innes 1 ,Zhongjun Wang 1,2, Yujun Zhang 2 and Guangyu Wang 1,*1 National Park Research Centre, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada; jerrys92@mail.ubc.ca (G.S.); jacksonchy@alumni.ubc.ca (H.C.);kalifi.ferretti-gallon@ubc.ca (K.F.-G.); john.innes@ubc.ca (J.L.I.); wangzj814@bjfu.edu.cn (Z.W.)2 National Park Research Lab, School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, 35 Qinghua E Rd,Beijing 100091, China; yjzhang@bjfu.edu.cn* Correspondence: guangyu.wang@ubc.ca; Tel.: +1-604-822-2681Received: 29 October 2020; Accepted: 30 November 2020; Published: 2 December 2020Abstract: National parks have been adopted for over a century to enhance the protection of valuednatural landscapes in countries worldwide. For decades, China has emphasized the importance ofeconomic growth over ecological health to the detriment of its protected areas. After decades ofenvironmental degradation, dramatic loss of biodiversity, and increasing pressure from the publicto improve and protect natural landscapes, China’s central government recently proposed theestablishment of a pilot national park system to address these issues. This study provides an overviewof the development of selected conventional protected areas (CPAs) and the ten newly established pilotnational parks (PNPs). A literature review was conducted to synthesize the significant findings fromprevious studies, and group workshops were conducted to integrate expert knowledge. A qualitativeanalysis was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot national park system. The results ofthis study reveal that the PNP system could be a potential solution to the two outstanding issuesfacing CPAs, namely the economic prioritization over social and ecological considerations that causesmassive ecological degradation, and the…
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0395510
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/land9120489
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
subject: national park
subject: pilot program
subject: environmental sustainability
subject: governance
subject: economic development
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/76996