A land-use benefit evaluation system with case study verification

Abstract

In regional land-use planning, many different demands for often-limited land resources must be weighed against each other. Analysis of the benefits of different land-use types is of great significance in land-use design. However, a good evaluation methodology does not exist. To facilitate a comparative analysis of land-use benefits, this paper presents an evaluation system consisting of four steps: (1) Connotation dissection to determine the land-use benefits, (2) construction of a land-use benefit classification system to summarize a limited number of land-use benefit types by an inductive method, (3) land-use benefit valuation, which includes a biophysical model, direct and indirect market valuations, and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity value conversion method, and (4) case analysis of the evaluation results according to local conditions. Empirical results from a case study of Mentougou District, Beijing, China, show that (i) the evaluation results of land-use benefit groups provides information on each land-use type and the spatial distribution of land-use benefits in Mentougou District, (ii) the topography of Mentougou District has an important influence on economic and ecological land-use benefits, and (iii) there is a synergistic effect of economic and social land-use benefits.

Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Multifunctional Land Management in Abandoned Rural Areas: A Case Study

“…After the collapse of the planned economic system in Eastern Europe, as observed in several research studies addressing this issue [1,[14][15][16], the collective farm, which used to utilize the land of the area under examination from a multifunctional point of view [20][21][22], at least considering the three casual perspectives, i.e., economic, social and ethical, and environmental [7,34], was destroyed. Thus, as observed by researchers elsewhere [31][32][33], the multifunctional land use attributes started to diminish. After the collapse of the planned economic system in Lithuania, the newly restored state had to perform land reforms and run privatization processes, which were challenging, tricky and long-lasting, as stated in the literature [9,10], and in turn, these caused tremendous changes from both environmental, sociocultural and economic points of view.…”

“…Among the most recent relevant scientific findings, the multifunctional attitude toward sustainable land management has been addressed in several research studies [31][32][33]. For example, some researchers [31] focused on Mediterranean rural settlements, which face multiple environmental challenges, including the annual loss of farmland, climate change threats, and increasing resource consumption and demand, particularly for energy, which is crucial for development.…”

“…Consequently, they advocated for the key concepts of energy communities and agrivoltaics, illustrating how the use of buildings and farmland can positively influence the ecosystem and fulfil the multifunctional perspective of land management. A land-use benefit perspective was examined by Sun et al [32], taking into account the three intersecting sustainability dimensions (i.e., environmental, social and economic) from a functional point of view: an ecosystem with its functions; a social system with its human well-being functions; and a land-use system, which goes in between with ecosystem services and goods, science, technology and social relations, land-use benefits, biophysical processes and finally, land-use management decisions. The developed model was found helpful in regional land-use planning when there was a demand for weighting limited land resources against each other.…”

“…The outlined studies [32,34,35], in parallel with relevant observations in new-generation rural entrepreneurship [36][37][38][39][40] are considered in this research as the driving background for developing a framework for innovative business models, devoted to sustainable land management in abandoned rural areas. The major research question of this study centres on the issue of whether a creative allocation of outlined multiple land functions by new-generation entrepreneurs in a particular abandoned rural area might generate potential sustainable and durable land management practices-prospective innovative business models for abandoned rural places.…”

A Study on the Measurement of Comparative Advantage of Land Use Efficiency, Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity and Its Influencing Factors—An Empirical Test from the Panel Data of China’s Provincial Sub-Industry Types

“…(1) Evaluation index system of land use efficiency With comprehensive reference to the existing relevant documents [29][30][31], based on the industrial classification system of the national economy, and combined with the rules of human production, life and ecological activities, the agricultural land benefit evaluation index system and non-agricultural land benefit evaluation index system are respectively constructed. Among them, the efficiency evaluation of agricultural land involve four indicators: the land average output value of primary industry, the average agricultural added value per land, the per capita disposable income of rural residents and the per capita consumption and expenditure of rural residents.…”