Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China.
Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Aug 5;17(16):5672. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17165672.
Forests play an important role in the process of land degradation and restoration. As a national key ecological project for protecting natural forest, the natural forest resource protection project was implemented in 17 provinces for nearly 20 years. As the core stakeholders and main force for protecting forest resources, rangers have a clear, more objective and comprehensive perception of the policy process, problems and forest ecological changes than farmers. This study introduces public value theory, builds a performance evaluation system that combines the "process-outcome" of ecological construction and uses the GRA-TOPSIS and obstacle tracking model to investigate the performance and obstacle factor of natural forest resource protection project from rangers' perspective. GRA-TOPSIS is an optimal sequence technique for ideal solution optimization that combines the gray correlation method. The empirical results showed the overall performance of the natural forest resource protection project is good, the relative gray closeness that indicated the process dimension value of the natural forest resource protection project (NFRPP) is 0.663 which higher than the outcome dimension. It reflected the characterization and value level of overall and dimensions performance of NFRPP in Qilian Mountain. The rangers' support evaluation is the highest, followed by the ecological outcome, sustainability and stability. The key obstacle is the support of local farmers, the social and economic outcome of the project. The natural forest resource protection project has shortcomings in its management system, function setting and support mechanism and urgently improved it from the resource system, resource unit, management system and user. These results are important to promote better implementation of such ecological projects, to enhance the project stability and the regional sustainable development.
森林在土地退化和恢复过程中发挥着重要作用。天然林资源保护工程作为保护天然林的国家重点生态工程，在 17 个省（区）实施近 20 年。护林员作为保护森林资源的核心利益相关者和主力军，对政策过程、问题以及森林生态变化的感知比农民更为清晰、客观和全面。本研究引入公共价值理论，构建了一个将生态建设的“过程-结果”相结合的绩效评价体系，并采用 GRA-TOPSIS 和障碍跟踪模型，从护林员的角度调查天然林资源保护工程的绩效和障碍因素。GRA-TOPSIS 是一种理想解优化的最优序列技术，结合了灰色关联方法。实证结果表明，天然林资源保护工程的整体绩效良好，过程维度值（NFRPP）的相对灰色接近度为 0.663，高于结果维度。这反映了祁连山天然林资源保护工程（NFRPP）的整体和各维度绩效的特征和价值水平。护林员的支持评价最高，其次是生态结果、可持续性和稳定性。关键障碍是当地农民的支持、项目的社会经济成果。天然林资源保护工程在管理体制、功能设置和支持机制方面存在不足，亟待从资源系统、资源单元、管理体制和用户等方面加以改进。这些结果对于促进此类生态工程的更好实施、增强项目稳定性和区域可持续发展具有重要意义。
