Environmental Impact Assessment of Land Use Planning Based on Ecosystem Services Valuation in Xingguo County

This paper describes a case study of environmental impact assessment for land use planning (2006-2020) based on ecosystem services valuation in Xingguo County. The results from the study are as follows. In addition to the decline of ecosystem services valuation of water and unused land during the planning period in Xingguo County, the other various land use types are increasing. The rising range of fields is 61.49% which is the biggest rising range. The new program of land use planning carried out will make the ecosystem services valuation of other types of land use rise from 5.815 billion yuan in 2006 to 5.833 billion yuan in 2020 in Xingguo County, with a net increase of 18million yuan. The valuation of ecosystem services per capita decreases from 7,958 yuan in 2006 to 6,598 yuan in 2020. All of these results indicate that as the population growing continuously, the valuation of ecosystem services per capita relative to the total valuation of ecosystem services shows a negative growth trend. If the valuation of ecosystem services per capita is required to keep bigger or equal to the status quo, the land planning scheme should be further refined and modified. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier B. V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of National University of Singapore.