Journal of Ecology and Rural Environment ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (10): 865-871.doi: 10.11934/j.issn.1673-4831.2017.10.001

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Modern Ecological Protection Concept and Its Application to Ecological Protection

WANG Li-xia, ZOU Chang-xin, WANG Yan, LIN Nai-feng   

  1. Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Nanjing 210042, China
  • Received:2016-10-12 Online:2017-10-25 Published:2017-11-24

Abstract:

The currently aggravating eco-environment problems have given birth to a series of ecological protection theories, which could be summarized into four groups of ecological protection concepts by core ideas and characteristics, namely, system ecology protection, landscape ecology protection, sustainable development protection, and ecological safety/risk protection. Connotations of these ecological protection concepts and effects of the ecological protection concepts on ecological protection mode, ecological evaluation method and national protection policies were further illuminated by examples of the eco-environmental protection practices. Based on the concept of ecological security and the reality of severe ecological security situation which has a fragile ecological environment, Chinese ecologists have put forward the theory of ecological protection redline. Delineation and strict protection of ecological protection redline, it is an effective means to construct the ecological security pattern of China, and to ensure that the ecological function is not decreased, the area is not reduced and the nature is not changed. In the end, a common developing tendency of the modern ecological protection concepts was summarized as that the modern ecological protection concepts are not merely a kind of concepts, but they also have a set of matching operable technical methods.

Key words: ecological protection concept, ecosystem protection, landscape ecology, ecological risk, ecological security, ecological protection redline

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