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Journal of Chinese

Architecture and Urbanism

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Changes in land use or land cover and

ecosystem service values in Wuhan city, China,
from 1996 to 2018

1,2
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Yunhua Lin * and Donghoon Lee *
1 Department of Architecture, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, South
Korea
2 Department of Architecture and Planning, School of Civil, Architecture and Environment, Hubei
University of Technology, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Despite rapid development in response research of land use to ecosystem service
values (ESV), there is little attention to the influence of ecological construction at a
local scale with an empirical study. Based on land use data from two Chinese land
surveys, this study attempted to assess ESV from the dual perspectives of urbanization
and ecological protection with the primary data-based approach from 1996 to 2018
in Wuhan, central China. We found that the ESV increased from 119.32 billion yuan
to 220.29 billion yuan during 1996 – 2018, with an average annual growth rate of
*Corresponding authors: 1.27%, 3.86%, 3.49%, 2.97%, and 1.87% during the periods 1996 – 2000, 2000 – 2005,
Yunhua Lin
(20150042@hbut.edu.cn) 2005 – 2010, 2010 – 2015, and 2015 – 2018, respectively. The conversion of other
Donghoon Lee land use types to forest and water bodies was the main reason for the increase in
(dhl@seoultech.ac.kr) ESV. The analysis results could be helpful to provide a new way to create policies
Citation: Lin, Y., & Lee, D. (2023). pertaining to city development and ecological environment protection in typical
Changes in land use or land rapid urbanization regions.
cover and ecosystem service
values in Wuhan city, China, from
1996 to 2018. Journal of Chinese Keywords: Ecosystem service values; Land use; Urbanization; Ecological protection
Architecture and Urbanism,
5(2):0427.
https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.0427
Received: April 12, 2023 1. Introduction
Accepted: July 5, 2023
Ecosystems furnish a variety of services that are of critical importance to human
Published Online: July 26, 2023 well-being, health, survival, and development (Costanza et al., 1997; Xie et al., 2008;
Copyright: © 2023 Author(s). de Groot et al., 2012). The continuous population growth and urbanization around the
This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the world have brought increasing pressure to ecosystems (Xie et al., 2017). Thus, to alleviate
Creative Commons Attribution- the pressure on ecosystems and improve ecosystem services, estimating the ecosystem
Non-Commercial 4.0 International service values (ESV) has become an urgent necessity (Costanza et al., 2014).
(CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits all
non-commercial use, distribution, Since the 1990s, exploratory studies of ecosystem services have grown rapidly (Xie
and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is et al., 2017). Costanza et al. (1997) estimated the value of global ecosystem services,
properly cited. which was seen as a major milepost in this topic (Xie et al., 2017). In 2005, ecosystem
Publisher’s Note: AccScience services were divided into four categories: production functions, supporting service,
Publishing remains neutral with regulation service, and cultural service, by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
regard to jurisdictional claims in
published maps and institutional (MEA), which was a 4-year, 1300-scientist study for policy formulation (Millennium
affiliations. Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). Studies on ecosystem services of various ecosystems at

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