The coupling characteristics of population and residential land in rural areas of China and its implications for sustainable land use

Cai, Enxiang; Chen, Weiqiang; Wei, Hejie; Li, Jiwei; Wu, Hua; Guo, Yulong; Xu, Feng

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“…Shi et al (2016) analyzed the spatiotemporal changes in rural settlements and their decoupling relationship with rural registered population in the middle basin of the Heihe River in China. Cai et al (2019) explored the characteristics and coupling types between rural population and rural settlements in 340 prefecture-level cities of China. These studies provided an important window for understanding the change mechanism of rural human-land relationships.…”

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Identifying the Static and Dynamic Relationships Between Rural Population and Settlements in Jiangsu Province, China

Zhu

Kong

2020

Chin. Geogr. Sci.

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Rapid urbanization has triggered large rural population floating into cities, which in turn affects rural human-land relationships. The actual human-land relationship involves the coupling level of a time point and dynamic change of a time interval. However, few studies have identified the rural human-land relationship from these two perspectives. This study combined static coupling analysis with a dynamic decoupling model to analyze the relationships between rural population and settlements from 2009 to 2018 in Jiangsu Province, China. Although the static coupling degree in Jiangsu Province was relatively high, the decoupling analysis found that the rural human-land relationship in most counties was uncoordinated. There were 11 combination types based on the coupling and decoupling relationships. The most common two types (accounting for 76.74%) were recession decoupling with high-level coupling and strong decoupling with high-level coupling. Although the majority of counties had a high-level coupling degree, an uncoordinated change in rural population and rural settlements was observed in these counties. Counties with relatively reasonable human-land relationships accounted for only 12.79% of the total. The combination features for each type were identified and differential policies were proposed for optimizing human-land relationship in rural areas. This study would contribute to our understanding of the multiple relationships between rural population and settlements involved in different patterns and processes, and expect to provide theoretical and methodological support for promoting rural revitalization and sustainable development in practice.

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Identifying the Static and Dynamic Relationships Between Rural Population and Settlements in Jiangsu Province, China

Zhu

Kong

2020

Chin. Geogr. Sci.

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“…Secondly, with the massive outflow of the rural population, the ALS has not decreased but has increased. Relevant studies have shown that this pattern of dysfunctional development of rural human–land relationships is widespread in China, and it is one of the main problems in China’s space governance [ 69 , 70 , 71 ].…”

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Spatiotemporal Changes of Ecosystem Service Value Determined by National Land Space Pattern Change: A Case Study of Fengdu County in The Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Zhang

Yang

Zhang

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Exploring the spatiotemporal change characteristics of ecosystem service value (ESV) under the influence of national land space pattern (NLSP) changes is of great significance for promoting the rational use of land resources and the optimization of ecosystems. In this study, Fengdu County in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area was selected as a case study. We analyzed the changes in NLSP using land use data from 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2018. Then, we used the equivalent factor method and exploratory spatial data analysis method to explore the spatiotemporal change characteristics of the ESV of Fengdu County. The results show that: (1) From 1990 to 2018, the changes in NLSP in Fengdu County generally manifested in the transformation of agricultural space into urban space and ecological space; (2) The spatiotemporal change of ESV is a process that positively responds to the increase in ecological space and negatively responds to the expansion of urban space. From 1990 to 2018, the total ESV of Fengdu County showed a trend of continuous growth, with a total increase of CNY 11.10 × 108, and the change rate was 9.33%. The ESV gain area is mainly located along the Yangtze River and the southernmost part of the county, and the loss area is mainly located near the south bank of the Yangtze River; (3) ESV and its changes in Fengdu County have a significant positive spatial autocorrelation. The cold and hot spots of ESV change are mainly distributed along the Yangtze River and to the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, it is suggested to integrate ESV as an important indicator into the decision-making of national land space planning. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the intensive use of urban space and protect the important ecological space from decreasing. Our study results provide useful insights for the development of regional NLS management and environmental protection policies. However, it is worth noting that the results of this paper are more applicable to areas where the terrain is dominated by mountains.

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“…The Tapio's decoupling model was mainly used in previous studies investigating the rural human-land relationship, to focus upon the change process and discuss the coordinated relationship between changes to the rural population and rural settlement area [10,11]. That model, however, calculates the ratio between the rate of change of rural population and rural settlements, which cannot reflect the current state of rural human-land relations [12,48].…”

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“…This reduction in the rural population has led to the loss of a rural labor force, the shortage of rural governance talent, and a diminished endogenous impetus for pursuing rural development, all of which further intensifies rural decline. Still, rural settlement areas have not decreased along with the decrease in the rural population, instead showing a trend of continuous increase over time [10][11][12]. Spatially, rural settlements and cultivated land are often situated near each other; therefore, the disorderly expansion of rural settlements not only causes a waste of land resources and the deterioration of rural living quality [13,14], but also inevitably occupies a large amount of high-quality cultivated land [15][16][17], thereby threatening food security.…”

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“…During the period 1996-2005, the decoupling of the rural population and its rural settlements increased [10]. At the scale of prefecture-level city, the rural human-land relationship is discordant, in that there is a rapid decrease in population size alongside an increase in rural settlement area [11], and the rural human-land relationship in most counties of Jiangsu Province is evidently uncoordinated [12]. These studies mainly used Tapio's decoupling model to analyze the relationship between the spatiotemporal rate of changes in rural population sizes and rural settlement area, which is helpful for understanding the rural human-land relationship from the perspective of human-land coordination.…”

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Multi-Dimensional Feature Recognition and Policy Implications of Rural Human–Land Relationships in China

Dong

Zhang²,

et al. 2021

Land

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Rural decline has become an indisputable fact and a global issue. As a developing country, China is simultaneously facing unprecedented rapid urbanization and severe rural decline. The coordinated development of its rural human–land relationship is therefore of great significance for ensuring the country’s food security and achieving both rural revitalization and sustainable development. Yet, the related research on this complex subject has mostly focused on a single element: rural settlements. Since studies of the rural human–land relationship tend to only discuss the coordinated change in rural populations vis-à-vis rural settlement area, their degree of spatial matching and intensive utilization level of rural settlements has been largely overlooked. To rectify this imbalance, using data on rural populations and rural settlement area in counties of Shandong Province in 2009 and 2018, this paper applied the methods of per capita rural settlement area, the Theil index, and Tapio’s decoupling model to quantitatively identify the rural human–land relationship along three dimensions: intensive utilization level, spatial matching degree, and change coordination degree. The results revealed that the per capita rural settlement area in Shandong Province was as high as 212.18 m2/person in 2018, which exceeded the standard to varying degrees in all cities, having an overall geographical pattern of being high in the north and low in the south. The Theil index for all cities was small, which indicates that the spatial matching between rural population and rural settlements is high. To sum up, there are small differences in the utilization of rural settlements among cities, and their extensive utilization of rural settlements is a common phenomenon. In addition, the relationship between the changes in the rural population size and rural settlement area corresponded to a discordant state, in the form of strong negative decoupling, expansive negative decoupling, and expansive coupling; however, among them, the strong negative decoupling type was the dominant type. It is worth noting that all of these three types will exacerbate the extensive utilization of rural settlements. Accordingly, this paper proposes policies and measures, such as the paid withdrawal of rural homesteads, an expanded scope of homestead transfer, cross-regional “increasing versus decreasing balance”, classified promotion of rural revitalization, and improved village planning.

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The coupling characteristics of population and residential land in rural areas of China and its implications for sustainable land use

Cited by 23 publications

References 34 publications

Identifying the Static and Dynamic Relationships Between Rural Population and Settlements in Jiangsu Province, China

Identifying the Static and Dynamic Relationships Between Rural Population and Settlements in Jiangsu Province, China

Spatiotemporal Changes of Ecosystem Service Value Determined by National Land Space Pattern Change: A Case Study of Fengdu County in The Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Multi-Dimensional Feature Recognition and Policy Implications of Rural Human–Land Relationships in China

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