Carbon Storage and Sequestration of National Key Ecological Restoration Programs in China: An Introduction to Special Issue

Although a crucial objective of ecosystem management should be the avoidance of degradation at the beginning,an unfortunate truth is that ecosystems have been substantially exploited,degraded and destroyed in the last century as a result of the global increase in economic and societal prosperity(Suding,2011).More than 60%of ecosystems have been converted for human use or degraded through unsustainable harvest,pollution,

Although a crucial objective of ecosystem management should be the avoidance of degradation at the beginning, an unfortunate truth is that ecosystems have been substantially exploited, degraded and destroyed in the last century as a result of the global increase in economic and societal prosperity （Suding, 2011）. More than 60% of ecosystems have been converted for human use or degraded through unsustainable harvest, pollution, fragmentation or exotic species invasions （Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005）.