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Symposium: Land-sparing and land-sharing in China’s biodiversity conservation, 2023-05-24
13 May 2025, 10:21 AM
Symposium: Land-sparing and land-sharing in China’s biodiversity conservation
Date: 23-25 May, 2025
Location: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Yuefengdao Ecology Station, Kunshan, Suzhou.
Contact: Dr. Yi Zou (yi.zou@xjtlu.edu.cn)
Introduction: “Land-sparing” refers to a strategy where human activities and biodiversity conservation are spatially separated, while “land-sharing” allows conservation and economic activities to coexist in the same space. In China, the overall conservation approach is largely land-sparing (e.g. Nature Reserves and National Parks, Grain for Green project, etc.). However, there are contexts where “land-sharing” can also be effective, particularly in agricultural and urban biodiversity conservation. This symposium calls for the “land-sharing” contexts in China. We aim to stress:
a) what region, kind of human activities and biodiversity are involved
b) how land-sharing can rival the economic benefits of land-sparing or bring other compensating benefits.
Agenda
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Date |
Time |
Agenda |
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23-May |
Afternoon |
Arrival |
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24-May |
8:45-9:00 |
Welcome |
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09:00 - 10:15 |
Keynote talks |
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10:15 - 10:45 |
Coffee break & Poster |
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10:45 - 12:00 |
Keynote talks |
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12:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch and break |
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14:00 - 17:00 |
Internal discussion |
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17:00 - 20:00 |
Reception |
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25-May |
Morning |
Internal discussion, XJTLU main campus visit |
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Afternoon |
Departure |
Keynote talks
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Time |
Title |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
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08:45-09:00 |
Welcome |
Eben Goodale |
XJTLU HES |
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09:00-09:15 |
Conservation in agricultural wetlands in Eastern Asia: the intersection between changing human needs and landscape use by amphibians |
Amael Borzee |
Nanjing Forestry University |
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09:15-9:30 |
Crop heterogeneity in Guangxi is a win-win for biodiversity and farmers |
Eben Goodale |
XJTLU HES |
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09:30-9:45 |
Land-sharing in urban greening: Nature-based solutions to lawns in western Chinese Megacities |
Fengping Yang |
Southwest University |
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09:45-10:00 |
Agricultural diversification promote land sharing in agricultural land- case study from rice paddy |
Xueqing He |
XJTLU HES |
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10:00-10:15 |
Global implications of industrial and smallholder agriculture in protected areas for biodiversity conservation and food security |
Juan Li |
XJTLU HES |
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10:15-10:45 |
Coffee break & Poster |
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10:45-11:00 |
Land-sparing or land-sharing? - Quantifying biodiversity and yield trade-off using the substitution index |
Yi Zou |
XJTLU HES |
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11:00-11:15 |
Maintaining biodiversity in productive agricultural landscapes in Switzerland and Qihe, China |
Noëlle Klein |
Agroscope |
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11:15-11:30 |
Sustainable intercropping in Northwest China: from science to fields |
Ruipeng Yu |
China Agricultural University |
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11:30 -11:45 |
Land-sparing and land-sharing of agricultural landscapes in hilly and mountainous areas，Southwestern, China |
Meichun Duan |
Southwest University |
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11:45 -12:00 |
Biodiversity along grazing intensity gradients in China's grasslands: Rethinking the sparing–sharing debate |
Li Li |
XJTLU HES |