Modelling and mapping natural hazard regulating ecosystem services in Sapa, Lao Cai province, Vietnam

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  • Vietnam National University
  • Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)767-781
Number of pages15
JournalPaddy and Water Environment
Volume16
Issue number4
Early online date30 Jul 2018
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2018

Abstract

Land use change due to the development of agriculture and community-based tourism has resulted in an increase in natural hazards (e.g. erosion and landslides) that affect sustainability in the Sapa mountainous area in northern Vietnam. Natural hazard regulating ecosystem services have protected the local people from the destruction of their villages, goods and natural resources, especially in the rainy season. However, it is difficult to identify which kinds of anthropogenic constructions support a co-production of regulating services in human-influenced social–ecological systems and in which specific types of land use and land cover the supply of such services takes place, especially in heterogeneous mountainous areas. Therefore, this research attempts to (1) distinguish between the potential and actual use (flow) of natural hazard regulating ecosystem services and (2) understand how soil erosion and landslide regulating ecosystem services can contribute to a sustainable management of different ecosystems, especially in rice fields and forest areas. Two models (InVEST for soil erosion, Analytic Hierarchy Process for landslide analysis) were used to analyze and map the contributions of natural versus anthropogenic components for regulating natural hazards in Sapa. The results show the incoherent distribution of erosion regulating services and low capacities of landslide regulating services in areas that have seriously been affected by human activities, especially forestry and agricultural development. The contribution of rice ecosystems to soil erosion mitigation is higher than in the case of landslides. Nevertheless, one-third of the area of paddy fields in the case study area have “no” capacity to supply natural hazard regulating ecosystem services and should therefore be re-forested.

Keywords

    Analytic Hierarchy Process, Erosion, InVEST, Landscape, Landslide, Regulation ecosystem services

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Sustainable Development Goals

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Modelling and mapping natural hazard regulating ecosystem services in Sapa, Lao Cai province, Vietnam. / Dang, Kinh Bac; Burkhard, Benjamin; Müller, Felix et al.
In: Paddy and Water Environment, Vol. 16, No. 4, 10.2018, p. 767-781.

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Dang KB, Burkhard B, Müller F, Dang VB. Modelling and mapping natural hazard regulating ecosystem services in Sapa, Lao Cai province, Vietnam. Paddy and Water Environment. 2018 Oct;16(4):767-781. Epub 2018 Jul 30. doi: 10.1007/s10333-018-0667-6
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