标题: Identification of the human-land relationship involved in the urbanization of rural settlements in Wuhan city circle, China

作者: Zhu, SY (Zhu, Siyang); Kong, XS (Kong, Xuesong); Jiang, P (Jiang, Ping)

来源出版物: JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES  卷: 77  页: 75-83  DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.05.004  出版年: JUL 2020  

摘要: The conversion of population and land from rural to urban areas has been widely explored; however, the spatial change in rural settlements and its relations to population changes involved in urbanization have been ignored. This paper aims to reveal the underlying human-land relationship from the perspective of rural settlement urbanization (RSU). Based on identifying the spatiotemporal characteristics of RSU in Wuhan city circle from 2009 to 2016, we analyzed the human-land relations using a combination of a dynamic coupling model and a decoupling model. The results showed that a total area of 27.77 km(2) (accounting for 0.81% of the level in 2009) of rural settlements was converted to urban construction land from 2009 to 2016. Although the rural population decreased by 32.21%, the overall size of rural settlements increased by 104.62 km(2), and 37 counties had a low-level coordination between population urbanization and RSU. Only 2 counties emerged with high-level coordination in this process. Additionally, the changes in rural settlements and rural population showed a strong negative decoupling; that is, the population decreased while the area of rural settlements increased. Combining the decoupling results with the coupling analysis, eight human-land relationship patterns in rural settlement urbanization were identified, and "strong negative decoupling-low-level coupling" was the main pattern observed in counties, which summarized the human-land relations in most RSU and should be given priorities in improving rural human-land relationships. The question of how to promote harmonious human-land relationships lies at the core of promoting balanced urban-rural development. This research could provide a decision-making basis for formulating a sustainable development strategy for urban-rural integration.

作者关键词: Rural settlement; Urbanization; Rural population; Decoupling model; Land use

地址: [Zhu, Siyang; Kong, Xuesong; Jiang, Ping] Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, 129 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

[Kong, Xuesong; Jiang, Ping] Wuhan Univ, Key Lab Geog Informat Syst, Minist Educ, 129 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

通讯作者地址: Kong, XS (corresponding author)，Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, 129 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

电子邮件地址: zhusiyang97@163.com; xuesongk@whu.edu.cn; longkangkang@whu.edu.cn

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