Author(s)

Du Jin ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Public Administration, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

Corresponding Author

Du Jin

ABSTRACT

Land use change is an important factor affecting carbon emissions, and this study takes the Tarim River Basin in China as the study area, and based on the five-period land use change data of the basin from 2000 to 2020, the IPCC inventory method and the carbon emission coefficient method are used to measure its land use carbon emissions.The results show that land use change in the Tarim River Basin is characterised by an increase in arable land and construction land, and a decrease in forest land, grassland, waters and unused land. Its land use carbon emissions increased from 679,400 tonnes at the beginning of the period to 24,912,900 tonnes at the end of the period, and the ratio of carbon sinks/carbon sources gradually decreased. Carbon emissions from construction land dominate among carbon sources, and forest land, watersheds and grasslands are the main carbon sequestration contributors among carbon sinks. Based on the results of the study, countermeasures including the protection of ecological land use, optimisation of arable land management measures, intensive use of construction land and low-carbon use of energy are proposed to help the Tarim River Basin achieve low-carbon development.

KEYWORDS

Land use change; Carbon emission; Countermeasure suggestion

CITE THIS PAPER

Du Jin, Study on Carbon Emissions from Land Use Change in the Tarim River Basin. Environment, Resource and Ecology Journal (2023) Vol. 7: 76-83. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/erej.2023.070610.

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