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Ecological risk assessment in Beijing based on GIS |
LI Yaoming, WANG Yujie, WANG Yunqi |
School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, 100083, Beijing, China |
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Abstract [Background] Ecological risk assessment has been studied by many countries and research scholars. The conventional index of evaluation system is difficult to obtain, which makes ecological risk assessment in some underdeveloped regions infeasible. The constant transformation of land type and structure, the substantial reduction of agricultural land; meanwhile, industrial and mining production emissions of chemicals has caused the environmental degradation in mountainous areas, population explosion, habitat loss, loss of biodiversity, etc. China's current risk assessment borrows from other types of ecological risk assessment system, which does not have an appropriate assessment system, and data collections some evaluation indicators of are too complicated. Thevefore, how to evaluate ecological risk assessment in practice? How to conduct effective ecological risk assessment and benefit of the production and construction? [Methods] Based on the research of ecological risk assessment, we analyzed the system according to sources of risk, risk receptors, exposure and hazard. Taking Beijing as the data source for remote sensing images, combined with GIS tools to analyze Beijing ecological risk level of distribution, selected multiple indicators were analyzed. We also studied key indexes in Beijing ecological risk assessment system, and endowed weights for each indexes, and finally obtained Beijing ecological risk assessment maps. [Results] 1) In densely populated areas, there have a higher ecological risk levels (Moderate risk and High risk) because of its closely related to human activities. 2) Overall, ecological risk level (Mild risk) of northern and western mountain area is higher than those in the southern and the eastern. 3) When two regions have the same ecological risk level, the major sources of risk may be different due to regional characteristics, however, neighborhoods trend to have the same major sources of risk. 4) By building and screening the index and ecological risk assessment system, a reasonable transformation of these indicators for ecological risk assessment system has been fitted in this system. At the same time, combined with the current research progress and soil and water loss investigation, it can be used in other parts of ecological risk assessment model for other areas. [Conclusions] Based on an earlier ecological risk assessment theory, the new ecological risk assessment methods can overcome the shortcomings of traditional single-factor evaluation, comprehensive index evaluation, and conducive to ecological risk assessment for other regions.
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Received: 04 November 2016
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