Ecosystem health assessment of Xiamen City: The catastrophe progression method

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 6312-6320

  Wei, Ting ^a   Zhu, Xiao Dong ^a   Li, Yang Fan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Catastrophe progression method; Catastrophe progression model; Ecosystem health; Rapid urbanization; Xiamen City

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUJIAN; XIAMEN;

EID: 58149218115     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Rapport D J, Costanza R, Mcmichael A J. Assessing ecosystem health. Trends in Ecology, 1998, 13(1): 397-402.
2. Rapport D J. Ecosystem health: Concept analysis. In: Rapport D J, Gandet C L, Callow P. Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large Scale Ecosystem. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1994. 4-8.
3. Schaefer D J, Henricks E E, Kerster H W. Ecosystem health: Measuring ecosystem health. Environ Manage, 1988, 12(3): 445-455.
4. Wei T, Wu C N. A case study on urban ecosystem health assessment. Ecological Economy, 2005, (8): 99-102.
5. Xu F L, Zhao Z Y, Zhan W. An ecosystem health index methodology (EHIM) for lake ecosystem health assessment. Ecol Model, 2005, 188(2): 327-339.
6. Wei T, Wu C N. An ecosystem health assessment of industrial parks of method and its application. Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin, 2007, 16(5): 680-684.
7. Annalee Y, Pedro M, Mariano B, et al. Applying an ecosystem approach to the determinants of health in centro Habana. Ecosystem Health, 1999, 5(1): 3-19.
8. Jerry M S, Mariano B, Annalee Y, et al. Developing ecosystem health indicators in centro Habana: A community-based approach. Ecosystem Health, 2001, 7(1): 15-26.
9. Xie H L, Li B, Wang C S, et al. Agroecosystem health assessment in western China. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2005, 25(11): 3028-3036.
10. Zhou W H, Wang R S. An entropy weight approach on the fuzzy synthetic assessment of Beijing urban ecosystem health, China. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2005, 25(12): 3244-3251.
11. Zhang F L, Liu J L, Yang Z F. Ecosystem health assessment of urban rivers and lakes for six lakes in Beijing. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2005, 25 (11): 3028-3036.
12. Costanza R. Toward an operational definiton of ecosystem health. In: Cosanza R, Norton B D. Ecosystem Health: New Goals for Environmental Management. Washington D C: Island Press, 1992. 239-256.
13. Wang R S, Wu Q, Bao L S. On the problems and models of the development of Beijing's ecological landscape. Urban Planning Forum, 2004, (5): 37-43.
14. Li Y F, Zhu X D, Sun X. The spatio-temporal process and assessment of regional eco-environment in rapid urbanization. Acta Seientiae Circumstantiae, 2007, 27(12): 2060-2066.
15. Thom R. Catastrophe theory. In: Thom R. Structural Stability and Morphogenesis. Benjamin: Reading Mass, 1972. 19-26.
16. Ling F H. The application of catastrophe theory. In: Ling F H. The Theory and Application of Catastrophe Theory. Shanghai: Jiaotong University Press, 1997. 129-131.
17. Rapport D J. The concept of ecosystem health. In: Rapport D J, Lasley W L, Rolston D E. Managing for Healthy Ecosystem. LLC: CRC Press, 2002. 110-115.
18. Tzoulas K. Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using green infrastructure: A literature review. Landscape Urban Planning, 2007, (2): 1441-1452.
19. Guo X R, Yang J R, Mao X Q. Primary studies on urban ecosystem health assessment. China Environmental Science, 2002, 22 (6): 525-529.
20. Ma S J, Wang R S. The social-ecoenomic-nature complex ecosystem. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 1984, 4(1): 1-9.
21. Lin G L, Zuo Y H. Pred regulation of Xiamen bay in the process of urbanization. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2007, 62(2): 137-146.
22. Pen B R, Hong H S, Chen W Q, et al. Ecological damage appraisal of sea reclamation: Theory method and application. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2005, 20(5): 715-726.
23. Huang Z G. Redtide biology. In: Huang Z G. Species Biodiversity in Xiamen. Beijing: Ocean Press, 2006. 150-157.
24. Lin G L, Zuo Y H. Cumulative ecological effects assessment on resource exploitation and utilization in bay. Journal of Natural Resources, 2006, 21 (3): 432-440.
25. Bian J W. Some thoughts on the city development and control: A case study of Xiamen City. City Planning Review, 2004, 28(7): 25-29.
26. Collie J S, Richardson K, Steele J H. Regime shifts: Can ecological theory illuminate the mechanisms. Progress in Oceanography, 2004, 60: 281-302
27. Zhu X D. New thinking of geosciences-Advance and review on ten-year disaster theory of realism. Advances in Earth Science, 1993, 8(3): 53-57.
28. Hsu K J. Actualistic catastrophism, address of the retiring president of the international association of sedimentologists. Sedimentology, 1983, 30: 3-9.