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| AN ANALYSIS ON ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ECOLOGICAL REHABILITATION IN ZHIFANGGOU CATCHMENT IN THE LOESS HILLY REGION |
| DANG Xiao-hu1,2, LIU Guo-bin2, WANG Ji-jun2, HOU Xi-lu2 |
1. Department of Geology and Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China;
2. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS and MWR, Yangling 712100, China |
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Abstract Loess Hilly Region, as the main body of the Loess Plateau, is characterized with the causes and effects chain linking population poverty and ecological degradation. It's crucial for the ecological rrehabilitation in Loess Hilly Region to rebuild the ecological-economic harmoney.To verify harmonious relationship between economic development and the protection of environment ecological rehabilitation and, based on the case study of Zhifanggou Catchment within the Loess Hilly Region, and employing the methods of industry analysis, poverty index and theories of income distribution, this literature analyzed the evolution of economic characteristics and impacts of ecological restoration on local economy from teh perspectives of ecological-economic harmony. The results showed as follows:first, ecological restoration in this catchment increased the value of Shannon indices of industries more than 1, showing the improvement of industrial structure in this catchment; secondy, over the period of 1998 -2005, a transition in integrated productivity was accomplished from low to high level and correlated positively with Shannon indices of industries; thirdly, Engel's coefficient and Gini index were 0.45 and 0.22 respectively in 2005 while Sen and FGT (=2)poverty indices were 0.2 and 0.17 respectively, suggesting that ecological rehabilitation increased local farmers' living standards remarkably. At last, the results indicated that the relationship between economic development and ecological rehabilitation and environmental protection can be able to be harmonious in Loess Hilly Region.
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Received: 10 September 2007
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2009, Vol. 24 
