Multifunctional rural transition along China’s Yangtze River Transect: Spatial differentiation and economic relevance

Abstract

To understand rural sustainability, it is necessary to scrutinize the relationship between rural transition and economic growth. The article uses rural multifunctionality as an analytical lens through which to view the processes of the development of rural occupancy. There is a pressing need to ascertain how to quantify rural multifunctionality and reveal its spatial differentiation, as well as garner and investigate how multifunctional rural transition (MRT) responds to economic growth. This paper employed the concept of Transect to compensate for data de ciencies in a long temporal series and established the indicator system from three different aspects-"living function, production function, and ecological function", to measure MRT along China's Yangtze River Transect. Our analysis showed that living function and production function display an increasing trend from underdeveloped western regions to eastern economically prosperous regions, and represent a high degree surrounding urban agglomerations, while economic growth only leads to a statistically insigni cant decreasing trend in ecological function. The MRT resulting from multiple factors is much diverse, complex, sophisticated, therefore, it should be understood within a framework incorporating both endogenous and exogenous factors. According to the results, it is thus important to formulate differentiated managerial countermeasures corresponding to the economic development level rather than the uniform regulations.

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