Zusammenfassung
Summary
In recent years, the ecological effect has already become one of the fundamental objectives for land consolidation (LC) projects in China which also conforms with the country’s new development strategy of “promoting ecological progress”. Meanwhile, as China determinates in reducing its Green House Gases (GHG) or carbon emissions to combat climate change, the GHG emissions due to land consolidation draws growing attentions. Presently, limited researches address the GHG emission effects during land consolidation processes; fewer addressed the issue from an ecological land consolidation perspective. This paper, hence, studies on the GHG emission effects of a pilot land consolidation project in China which featured by many ecological designs and engineering measures applied. According to findings from the case study, we argue that, in comparison to the conventional engineering measures applied in typical land consolidation projects of the region, most of the ecological engineering measures can not only enhanced the ecological effects in the project area, but also reduce GHG emissions due to savings in material use, transportation and energy consumption during the land consolidation process with additional advantages in cost efficiency.