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Coral Reef Arks: An In Situ Mesocosm and Toolkit for Assembling Reef Communities
Published on: January 6, 2023
An evolving assessment model for environmental carrying capacity: A case study of coral reef islands
Fei Cheng1, Fenzhen Su2, Ming Chen2
1Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China; LREIS, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; School of Geographic and Oceanic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Abstract:
Environmental carrying capacity (ECC) provides an insight into measuring sustainability of the vulnerable coral reef islands. However, an integrated assessment of ECC on the social-ecological system of reef islands is rarely existence. And conventional approaches miss addressing the difference of social development, which would lead to a misinterpretation of sustainable development of reef island system. This study develops an evolving model of RI-ECC which incorporates five specific development phases, and the assessment involves (1) identification and measurement of carrying components, (2) supply/demand surplus analysis of indicators and (3) ECC states determination. A case study is conducted in Zhaoshu Island of China, indicating the efficiency of RI-ECC model and serving as a reference for adaptive management.
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