Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987–2007

Guo, Shan; Shen, Geoffrey Qiping; Chen, Zhanming; Yu, Rong

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.05.019

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“…The growing land scarcity, however, has been the key issue of economic development and urbanization in China [ 3 ]. In response, urban land supply will be restrained rigorously by a restriction of 120 million hectares for cultivated land to ensure food security [ 70 ]. Additionally, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources of the People’s Republic of China, urban growth boundaries of 14 RD cities including Peking, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Shenyang, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Xi’an and Guiyang, will be designated in 2015.…”

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Change in Environmental Benefits of Urban Land Use and Its Drivers in Chinese Cities, 2000–2010

Song

Chang

Yang

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Driven by rising income and urban population growth, China has experienced rapid urban expansion since the 1980s. Urbanization can have positive effects on the urban environment; however, improvement of urban environment quality, especially its divergence between relatively developed and undeveloped cities in China, is currently a rather rudimentary and subjective issue. This study analyzed urban environmental benefits among China’s prefectural cities based on their structure of urban land use in 2000 and 2010. First, we divided 347 prefectural cities into two groups, 81 coastal and capital cities in the relatively developed group (RD) and 266 other prefectural cities in the undeveloped group (RP). Then, we defined three areas of urban environmental benefits, including green infrastructure, industrial upgrade, and environmental management, and developed an assessment index system. Results showed that all prefectural cities saw improvement in urban environmental quality in 2000–2010. Although the RD cities had higher income and more population growth, they had less improvement than the RP cities during the same period. We also found that demographic and urban land agglomeration among RD cities restrained green infrastructure expansion, making green infrastructure unsuitable as a permanent solution to environmental improvement. It is therefore urgent for China to promote balanced improvement among the three areas of urban environmental benefits and between the RD and RP cities through regional differentiation policies.

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Change in Environmental Benefits of Urban Land Use and Its Drivers in Chinese Cities, 2000–2010

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Yang

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“…Owing to the shortcomings of resources, labor force dynamics, agricultural machinery, and technology, the production cost of crops in China is obviously higher than that of other major crop-producing countries, such as the US, Canada, and Brazil [11]. Under these circumstances, China is one of the largest food importers in the world [12]. Meanwhile, urban expansion results in less available land for agriculture and greater pressure on food security in China [13].…”

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Knowing and Doing: The Perception of Subsidy Policy and Farmland Transfer

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Farmland transfer is conducive to the rational allocation of farmland resources and scaling of agricultural production in China. The Chinese government launched a pilot program to subsidize moderate-scale farmland management in 2016, yet the perception of the program and its effects are rarely empirically tested using micro-level data. Using data on 523 households extracted from a rural household survey, the Probit and Tobit model results determined a significant positive impact of the perception of moderate-scale subsidies on both farmland transfer behavior and farmland transfer area. If the household knows about the moderate-scale subsidy policy, then it is 19.2% more likely to have moderate-scale land endowment, and the household has 17.626 ha more inflow land than that who do not know the policy. The results show that only 5% of the households know the moderate-scale subsidy policy, thus hindering the process of farmland transfer. Additionally, high levels of educational attainment and non-agricultural income promote farmers’ decisions to transfer farmland and to expand farmland areas for moderate-scale households. However, age, household size, the family dependency ratio, and non-agricultural labor are obstacles to farmland transfer. The findings imply that the government should adopt a more effective policy transmission mechanism to increase the proportion of knowing the subsidy policy for both small-scale and moderate-scale households.

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“…The IOA or MRIO approaches have been applied to land use analysis at the international, national and intra-national levels [22,23,24,25,26], providing land resource trading information as well as the dependence and supporting relationships of land resources between different regions. In particular for China, the impact of domestic consumption and international trade on agricultural land uses has been analyzed based on China’s input–output table or the global MRIO table [19,22,27,28]. At the provincial level, a few recent studies have measured the lands hidden in traded crops and examined the pattern and characteristics of inter-provincial land trade flows based on the economic trade network and land intensity data [5,29].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In principle, the trade between regions allows for land resource transfers across regional borders, providing opportunities for mitigating resource shortages in resource scarce regions by importing the resource from other regions [2,28]. However, because the trade between regions is controlled by comparative advantages determined from a combination of many natural and socio-economic factors (e.g., natural resource abundance, capital and technology), land resource is not necessarily transferred downward the gradient of land resource abundance.…”

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China’s Land Uses in the Multi-Region Input–Output Framework

Bao

Sun

2019

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The finite resource of land is subject to competing pressures from food demand, urbanization, and ecosystem service provision. Linking the land resource use to the whole production chain and final consumption of various products and services offers a new perspective to understand and manage land uses. This study conducted a systematic analysis of land uses at the provincial level in China using the multi-region input–output model in 2012. Land use patterns related to the sectoral production and consumption in different provinces were examined. The results indicated that the land use transfers between different provinces in China have formed a highly interacting network. Products and services involved in the inter-provincial trades in China contained 2.3 million km2 land uses, which constituted approximately 40% of the total national land uses that were finally consumed in China. Agriculture was the most direct land use intensive sector, and industry was the most indirect land use intensive sector. Land resource-scarce provinces with low per capita land availability have outsourced parts of their land uses by net importing lands from other provinces. The results have important policy implications towards sustainable land uses in China.

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Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987–2007

Cited by 47 publications

References 59 publications

Change in Environmental Benefits of Urban Land Use and Its Drivers in Chinese Cities, 2000–2010

Change in Environmental Benefits of Urban Land Use and Its Drivers in Chinese Cities, 2000–2010

Knowing and Doing: The Perception of Subsidy Policy and Farmland Transfer

China’s Land Uses in the Multi-Region Input–Output Framework

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