Evaluation the Forest Products and Water Retention at a County Level: A Case Study in Benxi County of China

Author

Kaiyue Qu ; Limin Dai

Author_Institution

Inst. of Appl. Ecology, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Shenyang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Forest products and water retention produced by forest are essential for the wellbeing of humans. Taking the subcompartment as the basic evaluation unit, based on geographic information system (GIS), we estimated the economic value of water retention by forest ecosystems in Benxi County of Liaoning province of china, and attempted to integrate evaluation and practical forestry management activity. The economic value of water retention by forest in Benxi County is estimated to be 146.57 million RMB which is about two times of the timber economic value. In addition, we analyzed the spatial distribution of evaluation results. Our work can effectively make the evaluation results into decision making in forest ecosystem management (for example, the division of forest for water retention).

Keywords

agricultural products; decision making; environmental management; forestry; geographic information systems; Benxi County; China; GIS; Liaoning province; county level; decision making; ecosystem management; forest ecosystems; forest products; geographic information system; water retention; Cost accounting; Decision making; Ecosystems; Environmental economics; Environmental factors; Forestry; Geographic Information Systems; Humans; Large-scale systems; Soil;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4712-1

Electronic_ISBN

2151-7614

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5515363

Filename

5515363