GIS-based study of the spatial distribution suitability of livestock and poultry farming: The case of Putian, Fujian, China

Tourism Development in Inner Mountain Areas—The Local Stakeholders’ Point of View through a Mixed Method Approach

“…Moreover, the Delphi method was used alone [90,98,99,[103][104][105][106] or with other quantitative and/or qualitative investigative instruments, for example, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) [91,94,95,107], Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) [94,[107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114], cluster analysis [92,115,116] or Nominal Group Technique (NGT) [117][118][119][120][121]. NGT aims at building consensus among different stakeholders belonging to a group [114] and it is useful when difficulties in identifying problems and their solution within a community or group occur [122].…”

The pollutants from livestock and poultry farming in China—geographic distribution and drivers

“…In the nation, the proportion of livestock and poultry output in agricultural products had increased from 18 % in 1980 to 30 % in 2010 and has increased more rapidly in recent years (Fu et al 2012). As a result, China has become one of the global leaders in large-scale livestock and poultry farming (Peng et al 2014). The rapid development of large-scale livestock farming has resulted in increased pressure on the environment in China (Chen 2012 Abstract Livestock and poultry farming is a major source of agricultural pollution.…”

“…Therefore, to gain more benefits from livestock and poultry farming and simultaneously promote the sustainable development of natural resources, it is a prerequisite to know the spatial distributions of the farming and their drivers. Extensive research has been carried out into environmental pollution from livestock and poultry farming in China at different scales, such as national scales (e.g., Sun and Wu 2013), regional scale (e.g., Gu et al 2008), and local scale (e.g., Peng et al 2014). Research on livestock and poultry farming pollution in China began in the 1980s with investigations on water pollution (Sun and Wu 2013).…”

“…Specifically, there has been increasing evidences indicating that the diffusion of agricultural pollution from livestock and poultry farming has become a particularly serious problem in China's water quality management in recent years (Sun and Wu 2013). However, due to different natural and socioeconomic conditions, materials, and technical equipment, as well as numerous other factors and constraints, a significant gap has been observed in the development level and effects of livestock and poultry farming on environment across regions in China (Peng et al 2014). Therefore, to gain more benefits from livestock and poultry farming and simultaneously promote the sustainable development of natural resources, it is a prerequisite to know the spatial distributions of the farming and their drivers.…”

“…Fu et al (2012) pointed out that the spatial patterns of the livestock and poultry farming in China were influenced by agricultural scale and level, cultivated land area, as well as population density. At the regional and local scales, several works have reported that the regional development of livestock and poultry farming requires considerations of natural and socioeconomic conditions, materials, and technical equipment, as well as numerous other factors and constraints (Gu et al 2008;Peng et al 2014). Because of these interacting processes, China's livestock and poultry distribution is very heterogeneous, so does the pollutants, being characterized by regional concentrations which indicated there existed a potential uniform districting scheme for China's livestock and poultry farming (Fu et al 2012).…”