China’s rural human settlements: Qualitative evaluation, quantitative analysis and policy implications

Zhao, Xia; Sun, Honggang; Chen, Bin; Xia, Xiaohua; Li, Pengfei

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.01.006

Cited by 88 publications

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“…The coefficients and significance of variable Income indicate that increasing Income will have significant positive effects on households' tWTP and eWTP, which is in accordance with previous studies [8]. Compared with traditional heating methods in rural areas, such as burning coal in stoves and braziers, cleaner heating requires more investments in infrastructure, equipment, and cleaner energy [35]; the economic condition is a key factor that limits households' WTP. Furthermore, since Income affects eWTP significantly rather than fWTP, it can be inferred that the demand for heating facilities is rigid, while the demand for heating energy is elastic.…”

Section: Effects Of Factors 331 the Effects Of Economic Conditionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Key Factors of Rural Households’ Willingness to Pay for Cleaner Heating in Hebi: A Case Study in Northern China

Xie

Chen

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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As coal-fired heating in winter in rural areas of northern China exacerbates air pollution, promoting cleaner heating transition is of significance for environmental sustainability. However, this is difficult as intentions and actions of rural households are deficient. This case study in northern China aims to estimate rural households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for facilities and energy for cleaner heating and explore its key factors. The survey-based analysis found that the total annual WTP for cleaner heating (sum of the WTP for heating facilities and energy per year) varied from RMB 250 to RMB 6800 (RMB 100 ≈ USD 15 in 2018), with a quite low average and a huge difference. The variation of the WTP can be attributed to economic and demographic features and environmental attitudes of households. Improvement of household income and environmental concern will enhance the WTP for cleaner heating, but a high vacancy rate and aging population in rural areas will generally inhibit it. Based on this study, some policy suggestions were proposed to promote cleaner heating transition in rural households; specifically, more attention should be paid to the poor and aged households.

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Section: Effects Of Factors 331 the Effects Of Economic Conditionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Key Factors of Rural Households’ Willingness to Pay for Cleaner Heating in Hebi: A Case Study in Northern China

Xie

Chen

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…Researchers gradually explored rural residential land's spatiotemporal evolving patterns, influencing factors, and dynamic modeling [7][8][9] with the rapid development of "3S" technology and mathematical models. The structural equation model, geographic detector, and logistic regression are the methods most frequently used to detect influencing factors [10][11][12]. Meanwhile, attention has also been paid to rural landscape characteristics [13,14], the impact of rural residential land change on the ecosystem [15], the evolution of rural residential land's function [16,17], and rural residential land reconstruction [18,19].…”

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The Expansion Mechanism of Rural Residential Land and Implications for Sustainable Regional Development: Evidence from the Baota District in China’s Loess Plateau

Chen

Liu

Lü

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Rural residential land is the main space of a farmer’s life, rural culture, and social relations. Prior research of rural residential land has focused more on its evolvement in plain and traditional agricultural areas. Yet, there is no clear picture of rural residential land expansion, especially in ecologically fragile areas. This study analyzed the characteristics of rural residential land expansion based on 30 m spatial resolution land-use datasets of the Baota District of Yan’an City, Shannxi Province, and further explored the influencing factors and mechanisms of rural residential land expansion through binary logistic regression (BLR) modeling. Our findings indicated that the area of rural residential land in the Baota District increased by 116.16% during 1990–2015. More than 75% of the residential land expansion came from the occupation of cropland. Moreover, rural residential land expansion was heterogeneous in the rural regional system. The expansion scale, speed, and mode diversity of rural residential land decreased with the increased distance to urban built-up areas. Geographical conditions and resource endowments are the primary internal driving factors; urbanization and policy implementation are two major external driving forces. The authors suggest that the realization of regional sustainable development in ecologically fragile areas should strengthen urban–rural integration, focus on constructing central towns, and ensure ecological protection measures.

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“…References to MFA appeared in other official documents at this time, with MFA seen as one of the means to modernise agriculture and assist in reducing the imbalance between a dynamic, urbanised industrial sector and a lagging rural sector. (Zhao, Sun, Chen, Xia, & Li, 2019). However, it is important to examine the extent to which (and how) these broad statements have been translated into policy implementation.…”

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Multifunctional agriculture: Policies and implementation in China

Song

Robinson

2020

Geography Compass

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Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has been supported in the European Union (EU) for over two decades, primarily as part of rural development policy in which agriculture is encouraged to deliver a range of economic, social and environmental outcomes. MFA has also grown in some countries without significant policy support, notably in peri-urban fringes in North America and Australasia. Further expansion of this phenomenon is now apparent in China under strong central government policy directives from the early 2000s. Drawing upon a decade of studies of MFA in China, this paper examines some of the responses to various related policy initiatives, including major programs, such as Grain for Green, which have encouraged farmers to generate environmental services. It also refers to the scope for individual farm households to take initiatives leading to MFA via adoption of multiple functions on smallholdings (e.g., rural tourism, food processing). Various interpretations of MFA are explored, with a focus on how central government policy directives have driven take-up of various MFArelated initiatives.

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China’s rural human settlements: Qualitative evaluation, quantitative analysis and policy implications

Cited by 88 publications

References 27 publications

Key Factors of Rural Households’ Willingness to Pay for Cleaner Heating in Hebi: A Case Study in Northern China

Key Factors of Rural Households’ Willingness to Pay for Cleaner Heating in Hebi: A Case Study in Northern China

The Expansion Mechanism of Rural Residential Land and Implications for Sustainable Regional Development: Evidence from the Baota District in China’s Loess Plateau

Multifunctional agriculture: Policies and implementation in China

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