Land use and land cover change and driving mechanism in the arid inland river basin: a case study of Tarim River, Xinjiang, China

Zhao, Ruyan; Chen, Yaning; Shi, Peiji; Zhang, Lihua; Pan, Jingxi; Zhao, Haili

doi:10.1007/s12665-012-1763-3

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“…This development is further amplified by the relaxation of the household registration system in recent years (Fan 2005). Zhao et al (2013) confirm those findings in a GIS study that spans over the 1973-2005 period. They identified population growth caused by migration as a dominant driver for land cover change along the Tarim River.…”

Section: Population Growthsupporting

confidence: 81%

Development of agricultural land and water use and its driving forces along the Aksu and Tarim River, P.R. China

et al. 2014

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Section: Population Growthsupporting

confidence: 81%

Development of agricultural land and water use and its driving forces along the Aksu and Tarim River, P.R. China

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“…Identifying the primary causes, processes, and trends of land-use change are crucial for supporting urban planning and delimiting urban growth boundaries [16,17]. Land-use change models are useful tools for analyzing driving forces and processes, understanding the causes and consequences, and predicting the possible future outcomes of land-use change [18,19].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Delimitation of Urban Growth Boundaries Using the CLUE-S Land-Use Change Model: Study on Xinzhuang Town, Changshu City, China

Zhou

Zhang

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Sustainability

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Abstract:Over the past decades, urban growth boundaries (UGBs) have been regarded as effective tools applied by planners and local governments to curb urban sprawl and guide urban smart growth. The UGBs help limit urban development to suitable areas and protect surrounding agricultural and ecological landscapes. At present, China's Town and Country Planning Act officially requires the delimitation of UGBs in a city master planning outline and in central urban area planning. However, China's practices in UGBs are usually determined by urban planners and local authorities, and lack a sound analytical basis. Consequently, Chinese UGBs are often proven to be inefficient for controlling urban expansion. In this paper, take the fast-growing Xinzhuang town of Changshu city, eastern China as an example, a new method towards establishing UGBs is proposed based on land-use change model (the Conversion of Land Use and its Effects at Small regional extent, CLUE-S). The results of our study show that the land-use change and urban growth simulation accuracy of CLUE-S model is high. The expansion of construction land and the decrease of paddy field would be the main changing trends of local land use, and a good deal of cultivated land and ecological land would be transformed into construction land in 2009-2027. There is remarkable discordance in the spatial distribution between the simulated UGBs based on the CLUE-S model and the planned UGBs based on the conventional method, where the simulated results may more closely reflect the reality of urban growth laws. Therefore, we believe that our method could be a useful planning tool for the delimitation of UGBs in Chinese cities.

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“…Although there are many examples of changes in forest landscapes driven directly by recent population growth (Bradshaw 2012, Zhao et al 2013, rural depopulation and the concentration of populations in cities may contribute more strongly to forest landscape change than was previously expected (DeFries et al 2010).…”

Section: Landscape Dynamicsmentioning

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Forest landscape ecology and global change: an introduction

Azevedo

Pinto

Perera

2014

Forest Landscapes and Global Change

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Land use and land cover change and driving mechanism in the arid inland river basin: a case study of Tarim River, Xinjiang, China

Cited by 98 publications

References 32 publications

Development of agricultural land and water use and its driving forces along the Aksu and Tarim River, P.R. China

Development of agricultural land and water use and its driving forces along the Aksu and Tarim River, P.R. China

The Delimitation of Urban Growth Boundaries Using the CLUE-S Land-Use Change Model: Study on Xinzhuang Town, Changshu City, China

Forest landscape ecology and global change: an introduction

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