The Expansion Mechanism of Rural Residential Land and Implications for Sustainable Regional Development: Evidence from the Baota District in China’s Loess Plateau

Chen, Zongfeng; Liu, Xueqi; Lü, Zhi; Li, Yurui

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“…However, due to the influence of the household registration system, social relations, and hometown nostalgia, the roots of these people remain in rural areas [ 24 , 38 ]. With the increase in economic income, they tend to return to their hometown to build houses [ 4 , 22 , 23 ]. As the people grow older, their labor ability is weakened, and their willingness to return to their hometown increases [ 40 , 43 , 56 ].…”

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“…In recent years, China’s rural areas have experienced the phenomenon of population decrease and land use increase [ 22 – 24 ]—that is, the rural population is decreasing due to urbanization, but the area occupied by rural settlements is increasing. The increase in rural settlements area is mainly dominated by the occupation of cultivated land, but there are also forest, grassland, and unused land types [ 4 , 23 , 25 – 27 ]. The occupation of cultivated land by rural settlements not only poses a threat to national food security, but also damages the surrounding environment and biodiversity [ 21 , 26 ].…”

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“…Rural settlements are an important living space for the rural population [1][2][3]. Spatial and temporal distribution patterns reveal the footprints of human-land interaction and the coupling process of changes in the human-land relationship [4,5]. Meanwhile, as the core for grasping adjustments to the rural human-land relationship, spatial and temporal patterns are indispensable to current status and evolution of rural revitalization [6][7][8].…”

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Spatial and temporal distribution of rural settlements and influencing mechanisms in Inner Mongolia, China

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Revealing the patterns and influencing mechanisms of spatial and temporal distribution of rural settlements is crucial for rural revitalization and sustainable development. However, our limited understanding of the rural settlements in China’s ethnic minority border areas has hindered the process of their agricultural and rural modernization. Based on data on rural settlements in Inner Mongolia, China in four periods between 1990 and 2020, this study reveals its spatial and temporal distribution characteristics and describes the dynamic transformation process of settlement. Using a geographical detector approach, 17 factors are explored to identify the influencing mechanisms of each factor on the distribution of rural settlements in different regions. The results show obvious regional differences in the spatial distribution of rural settlements in Inner Mongolia, with the largest kernel density values in the west (Hetao irrigation area) and higher kernel densities in the central (Hohhot) and the east (Chifeng and Tongliao). While rural population decreases, rural settlements expand into cultivated land, grassland, and unused land resources. Its spatial distribution is significantly influenced by the factors of distance to cultivated land, distance to towns, and population density. The east of the study area is mainly controlled by temperature, while vegetation type and vegetation coverage have a greater impact in the west. The interactions between two influencing factors possess bilinear or nonlinear enhancement relationships. This study enriches the understanding of the rural settlements in ethnic minority border areas, which provide reference for the improvement of rural human settlement environment in Inner Mongolia.

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“…Generally, most scholars selected relevant influencing factors to quantitatively analyze their effects on land-use changes from the dimensions of nature, economy, and policy (Huang et al, 2021). Then, these scholars used quantitative models, such as GeoDetector (Ju et al, 2016;Zhou, Li, & Liu, 2020), binary logistic regression (Chen et al, 2021;Shu et al, 2014), and geographically weighted regression/geographically and temporally weighted regression (Cai et al, 2017;Wu et al, 2021), to quantitatively illustrate how these physical, socio-economic, and institutional factors affect urban expansion (Zhao et al, 2018), cropland changes (Zhou, Li, & Liu, 2020), and changes in other natural resource elements (Nie et al, 2021). However, the complex interactions among drivers at different spatial and temporal scales are the greatest challenge for understanding land-use changes (Shao et al, 2006).…”

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Balancing cropland gain and desert vegetation loss: The key to rural revitalization in Xinjiang, China

Wei-jia

Liu

2021

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In arid zones, ecological barriers can affect the agricultural development and sustainable development of oases. Therefore, balancing cropland and desert vegetation is the key to realizing ecological and rural revitalization. Then, we proposed a theoretical framework from the perspective of rural revitalization to analyze the key drivers that affect the balance of cropland and desert vegetation during 1990-2020. The results showed that cropland area in Xinjiang decreased by 881 km 2 during 1990-1995, while it continually increased by 34,086 km 2 during 1995-2020. However, grassland and woodland increased by 8,086 km 2 during 2015-2020, indicating that the balance between cropland gain and desert vegetation loss began to improve. Most cropland expansions were reclaimed from woodland/grassland and unused land. During 1990-2005, changes between cropland and unused land in Xinjiang were mainly affected by gross domestic product (GDP). GDP and population most significantly affected the conversion (17,939 km 2 ) of woodland/grassland to cropland during 1995-2015. Although population and economic growth led to an increase in cropland, the implementation of simultaneous and consistent policies on ecological conservation offset the reduction in desert vegetation. The findings can provide suggestions for smart cropland management and rural

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“…Ecological protection, human land system coordination, and sustainable development are always the basic propositions of high-quality development in the Loess Plateau [4,5]. The loess hilly and gully region (LHGR) is characterized by undulating hills and gullies, and its unique geographical Land 2021, 10, 901 2 of 21 characteristics have shaped a distinctive rural man land system [6]. In the process of social and economic development and urbanization, the loess hilly and gully region has suffered from the dual disturbance of natural ecology and human activities.…”

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Analysis of the Spatial Variations of Determinants of Gully Agricultural Production Transformation in the Chinese Loess Plateau and Its Policy Implications

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Exploring the gully agricultural production transformation and its influencing factors is of considerable significance to the evolution of the human–land relationship and multifunctional transformation of gully agriculture in the context of new development. This paper tries to reveal intensive land use under the background of population contraction in the Chinese Loess Plateau and its transformation trend by defining the gully agricultural production transformation (GAPT). Given the representativeness of land-use change in the loess hilly and gully region (LHGR) was taken as a case study, and ArcGIS spatial analysis techniques and geographically and temporally weighted regression model (GTWR) were used to detect the spatio-temporal differentiation pattern and influencing factors. The results show that: (1) GAPT shifts from the high elevation area of 1000–1300 m to the low elevation area of <1000 m, and the transformation process remains within the range of slope 0–20° and topographic relief between 40 m and 180 m. (2) GTWR coupled with time non-stationary and spatial heterogeneity has a better fitting effect, which verifies its applicability in the study of GAPT. Social and economic factors were the main driving forces of GAPT in Yan’an City in the past 20 years, and they were increasing year by year. (3) The spatial-temporal distribution of the driving factors of the agricultural production transformation in Yan’an City is different. The intensity of the population factor and the slope factor is always in the dominant position, and the high value distribution area of the land average GDP factor forms a funnel-shaped pattern of “core edge” in the north and the central and western regions, and its changes tend to “flow” to the core. (4) The gully agricultural production transformation can reflect the general law of rural land use transition in gully areas, and thereby provide policy ideas for gully development. Overall, this study’s content can provide scientific guidance for the sustainable development of gully agriculture and the revitalization of watershed and land consolidation in gully areas.

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The Expansion Mechanism of Rural Residential Land and Implications for Sustainable Regional Development: Evidence from the Baota District in China’s Loess Plateau

Cited by 25 publications

References 54 publications

Spatial and temporal distribution of rural settlements and influencing mechanisms in Inner Mongolia, China

Spatial and temporal distribution of rural settlements and influencing mechanisms in Inner Mongolia, China

Balancing cropland gain and desert vegetation loss: The key to rural revitalization in Xinjiang, China

Analysis of the Spatial Variations of Determinants of Gully Agricultural Production Transformation in the Chinese Loess Plateau and Its Policy Implications

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