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Ecological policy and its evaluation methods

CAO Shixiong1;CHEN Jun2;GAO Wangsheng1   

  1. 1College of Economics&Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China;
    2Gardening Station of Jingbian County, Jingbian, Shaanxi 718500, China;
    3Regional Agriculture R&D Center,College of Agronomy and Biotechnology,China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2006-12-10 Published:2006-12-10

Abstract: Ecological policy is a subject of researching the guidelines of ecological actions performed in a definite period by the government, party, or other political organizations to serve the society, economy, culture, and environment. It is a branch of crossing with two branches of science, policy and ecology, and includes a series of strategies, laws, approaches, methods, and regulations performed with ecological conservation as the main project. The evaluation of ecological policy is the product of crossing with the two branches of science, with the contents of actuality evaluation, and the estimation of the effects of policy changing and adjusting. Regardless how the global ecological policy changed,the purpose of environment conservation should be the scientificutilization of resources, decrease of environment conservation cost, and increase of environment improvement speed. The key methods of ecological policy evaluation should include ecologic al health evaluation, ecological ecosystem services evaluation, economic analysis of ecological programs, and humanities and sociological evaluation.

Key words: Eco agriculture, Integrated evaluation, Benefit index, Deqing County