Policy Brief 2020/3 - Sustaining China's coastal resources: Recommendations to improve the state of the coasts in Hainan

• Jialin Zhang
• Tim Jennerjahn
• Daoru Wang
• Xiaoping Diao
• Bevis Fedder
• Larissa Dsikowitzky
• Jan Schwarzbauer
• Ping Lee
• Matthias Labrenz
• Zhuhua Luo
• Thomas Pohlmann
• Jianfang Chen
• Dongfeng Xu
• Lucia Herbeck
• Esther Thomsen
• Rui Wu
• Shiquan Chen
• Inga Nordhaus
• Tim Rixen
• Thorsten Warneke
• Marco Drews
• Hongwei Zhao
• Hailong Zhou
• Fei Yang
• Yan Wang
• Nan Xiang

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Land-Ocean Fluxes and Transformation Global Change Impacts and Adaptation

Abstract

SUMMARY The coasts of the tropical Chinese island of Hainan, located in the South China Sea, are lined by ecologically and economically important ecosystems such as coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests, but which are also particularly vulnerable to global environmental change. In the past decades, Hainan’s population and economy grew rapidly with expanding industry, tourism and aquaculture sectors. This, in turn, imposes a challenge on the delicate balance between the use and the wellbeing of the valuable coastal ecosystems. This policy brief summarizes the major findings of a long-term Sino-German research collaborative and presents recommendations for a sustainable management of Hainan’s coastal ecosystems. They are derived from the newly acquired understanding of the ecosystem structure and functioning under the pressure of anthropogenic environmental change as well as of climate change. Coastal ecosystem health and the supply of ecosystem services, hence the natural resource potential, are severely threatened along the Hainan coast. Detail information can be found on the project website: https://ecoloc.leibniz-zmt.de.

• DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21244/zmt.2020.004

Cite this activity

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  Title = {Policy Brief 2020/3 - Sustaining China's coastal resources: 
Recommendations to improve the state of the coasts in Hainan},
  Author = {Zhang, Jialin and Jennerjahn, Tim and Wang, Daoru and Diao, Xiaoping and Fedder, Bevis and Dsikowitzky, Larissa and Schwarzbauer, Jan and Lee, Ping and Labrenz, Matthias and Luo, Zhuhua and Pohlmann, Thomas and Chen, Jianfang and Xu, Dongfeng and Herbeck, Lucia and Thomsen, Esther and Wu, Rui and Chen, Shiquan and Nordhaus, Inga and Rixen, Tim and Warneke, Thorsten and Drews, Marco and Zhao, Hongwei and Zhou, Hailong and Yang, Fei and Wang, Yan and Xiang, Nan},
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  Year = {2020},
  Doi = {https://dx.doi.org/10.21244/zmt.2020.004},
  Abstract = {SUMMARY

The coasts of the tropical Chinese island of Hainan, located in the South China Sea, are lined by ecologically and economically important ecosystems such as coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests, but which are also particularly vulnerable to global environmental change. In the past decades, Hainan’s population and economy grew rapidly with expanding industry, tourism and aquaculture sectors. This, in turn, imposes a challenge on the delicate balance between the use and the wellbeing of the valuable coastal ecosystems.

This policy brief summarizes the major findings of a long-term Sino-German research collaborative and presents recommendations for a sustainable management of Hainan’s coastal ecosystems. They are derived from the newly acquired understanding of the ecosystem structure and functioning under the pressure of anthropogenic environmental change as well as of climate change. Coastal ecosystem health and the supply of ecosystem services, hence the natural resource potential, are severely threatened along the Hainan coast.

Detail information can be found on the project website: https://ecoloc.leibniz-zmt.de.},
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AU  - Thomsen, Esther
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AU  - Chen, Shiquan
AU  - Nordhaus, Inga
AU  - Rixen, Tim
AU  - Warneke, Thorsten
AU  - Drews, Marco
AU  - Zhao, Hongwei
AU  - Zhou, Hailong
AU  - Yang, Fei
AU  - Wang, Yan
AU  - Xiang, Nan
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Recommendations to improve the state of the coasts in Hainan
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AB  - SUMMARY

The coasts of the tropical Chinese island of Hainan, located in the South China Sea, are lined by ecologically and economically important ecosystems such as coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests, but which are also particularly vulnerable to global environmental change. In the past decades, Hainan’s population and economy grew rapidly with expanding industry, tourism and aquaculture sectors. This, in turn, imposes a challenge on the delicate balance between the use and the wellbeing of the valuable coastal ecosystems.

This policy brief summarizes the major findings of a long-term Sino-German research collaborative and presents recommendations for a sustainable management of Hainan’s coastal ecosystems. They are derived from the newly acquired understanding of the ecosystem structure and functioning under the pressure of anthropogenic environmental change as well as of climate change. Coastal ecosystem health and the supply of ecosystem services, hence the natural resource potential, are severely threatened along the Hainan coast.

Detail information can be found on the project website: https://ecoloc.leibniz-zmt.de.
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