A Study on the Practice of Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation in Guizhou and Existing Problems

Abstract

Implementing ecosystem services for poverty alleviation is the realistic demand of Guizhou’s provincial conditions. Ecosystem services for poverty alleviation demonstrate the latest philosophy of modern poverty alleviation. The most fundamental thing of poverty alleviation is to develop the economy but economic development cannot exceed environmental capacity neither can it overdraft the ecosystem service function to trade for temporary economic development. Rather, it should take the path of sustainable development of economy, society and environment. Ecosystem services for poverty alleviation are effective means of targeted poverty alleviation. It carries out the concept of sustainable development, applies ecological protection means and methods of return of rain plots to forestry, governance of desertification and strengthened protection, etc. to repair ecological environment and improve environment quality, and sticks to synchronized progress of ecological construction and poverty alleviation development. Guizhou, in the process of ecosystem services for poverty alleviation, adopted several models such as relocation outside hometown and industrial placement, ecological governance and ecological industry, ecological industrialization and ecological tourism. Many problems exist in practice: ecosystem services for poverty alleviation are in need of legal guarantee; governments fall short of effective contacts; public participation is weak in the process of ecosystem services for poverty alleviation; and the assessment mechanism for ecosystem services for poverty alleviation is yet to be improved.