scholarly journals Land-Use Transition of Tourist Villages in the Metropolitan Suburbs and Its Driving Forces: A Case Study of She Village in Nanjing City, China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Yibei Chai ◽  
Weifeng Qiao ◽  
Yi Hu ◽  
Tianqi He ◽  
Kaiyang Jia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
Three Stages

In the context of the transition from “Native-rural China” to “Urban-rural China”, suburban villages have undergone rapid reconstruction of format, industry, and function. Aiming to reveal the evolution characteristics and driving forces, this study selected She Village, located in suburban areas of Nanjing, to analyze the changes of both dominant and recessive morphology of land use by employing participatory rural appraisal, remote sensing, and geographic information systems. The results showed that She Village witnessed three stages, including industrial development, ecological restoration, and service industry development, from 1980 to 2018, with more diversified management modes, multifunctional land use, and intensified land fragmentation. The drivers included natural resources, population growth, policy of Grain for Green, urban market demand, etc., the intensity of which showed trends of “increase–increase–increase”, “increase–decrease–decrease”, “periodically intermittent”, and “increase–decrease–increase” in turn. The tourist villages undergo three stages of industrial development, agricultural development, and service industry development, with periodical characteristics driven by top-down policies, the endogenous force of the village, and the radiation and diffusion of the city. This research deepens the understanding of the development process of suburban villages and provides a reference for land policy making and planning in other similar villages.

scholarly journals What Awaits Myanmar’s Uplands Farmers? Lessons Learned from Mainland Southeast Asia

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Jepsen ◽  
Matilda Palm ◽  
Thilde Bruun
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Mainland Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia (MSA) has seen sweeping upland land use changes in the past decades, with transition from primarily subsistence shifting cultivation to annual commodity cropping. This transition holds implications for local upland communities and ecosystems. Due to its particular political regime, Myanmar is at the tail of this development. However, with Myanmar’s official strategy of agricultural commercialization and intensification, recent liberalization of the national economy, and influx of multinational agricultural companies, the effects on upland land transitions could come fast. We analyze the current state of upland land use in Myanmar in a socio-economic and political context, identify the dynamics in three indicator commodity crops (maize, cassava, and rubber), and discuss the state driven economic, tenurial and policy reforms that have occurred in upland areas of mainland Southeast Asian countries in past decades. We draw on these insights to contextualize our study and hypothesize about possible transition pathways for Myanmar. The transition to annual commodity cropping is generally driven by a range of socio-economic and technical factors. We find that land use dynamics for the three indicator crops are associated with market demand and thus the opening of national Southeast-Asian economies, research and development of locally suitable high yielding varieties (HYVs), and subsidies for the promotion of seeds and inputs. In contrast, promotion of HYVs in marginal areas and without adequate agricultural extension services may results in agricultural contraction and yield dis-intensification. The environmental impacts of the transition depend on the transition pathway, e.g., through large-scale plantation projects or smallholder initiatives. The agricultural development in upland MSA follows a clear diffusion pattern with transition occurring first in Thailand, spreading to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. While these countries point to prospects for Myanmar, we hypothesize that changes will come slow due to Myanmar’s sparse rural infrastructure, with uncertainty about tenure, in particular in areas still troubled by armed conflicts, and unwillingness of international investors to approach Myanmar given the recent setbacks to the democratization process.

Recent development and regional disparity of the rural industries in China

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufu Chen ◽  
Yue Han ◽  
Liankai Guo
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Ripple Effect ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rural Industry

PurposeRapid development of China's rural industry since 1980s has a massive ripple effect on rural China. However, recent rural industrial development in China has received little scholarly attention. The study aims to investigate the development process and spatial differences of China's rural industry as well as its driving forces.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on the panel data constituting 30 provinces of China during 1984–2011. The factor analysis is used to identify the most significant factors affecting the growth of China's rural industry. The multiple regression analysis is applied to distinguish the driving forces affecting spatiotemporal variations in China's rural industry.FindingsChina's rural industry developed rapidly at an average rate of 26% per year during the period 1984–2011. The period 1990–2011 was characterized by remarkable increased spatial disparities in China's rural industrial development. Specifically, such development was markedly better in the east coast areas than in the inland areas in the west. Five driving forces of rural industrial development were recognized representing regional economic fundamentals of market, industry foundation, transportation, communication and degree of opening-up.Originality/valueThis paper explores the trajectory of the development of China's rural industry and the related regional economic factors. It suggests that the development of rural enterprises across the regions should be valued by Chinese government as a driving force for reducing regional disparities and future rural revitalization.

Research on the Homogeneous-Grid Spatial Structure of Rural Habitats: A Cast Study of Yishikuli

2014 ◽  
Vol 641-642 ◽  
pp. 556-559
Author(s):  
Tong Wei Gong ◽  
Jin Shi ◽  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Feng Li
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Distribution Characteristics ◽  
Natural Conditions

The homogeneous-grid spatial structure of rural habitats is a special spatial type in less developed rural areas. The paper analyzed the homogenization distribution characteristics from the aspects of size and density, and analyzed the gridded morphological characteristics from the aspects of space skeleton and land use. The author concludes that economies scale, industrial development, natural conditions and facilities construction are the main driving forces for the formation of this spatial type.

scholarly journals Exploring Driving Forces of Sustainable Development of China’s New Energy Vehicle Industry: An Analysis from the Perspective of an Innovation Ecosystem

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianlong Wu ◽  
Zhongji Yang ◽  
Xiaobo Hu ◽  
Hongqi Wang ◽  
Jing Huang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
New Energy ◽  
New Energy Vehicle

The sustainable development of the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry is receiving increasing attention worldwide. However, as a “catch-up” country in the automobile industry, China has made remarkable achievements in NEV industry development. To explore this phenomenon, this paper develops an “innovation-demand-policy” (IDP) framework to investigate the driving forces of sustainable development of the NEV industry from the perspective of an innovation ecosystem. Based on a comprehensive data collection and processing of interviews, patents, industry reports, and policy documents, the findings showed that technological innovation, market demand, and government policy drive NEV industry development together, and policy can play an effective role of coordination only when it follows an innovation process and market demand selection mechanism. Specifically, technological grafting, potential market demand, and supply-side policy create a minimum viable ecosystem and the embryonic form of the NEV industry. Technological breakthroughs, public demand, and demand-side policy enhance the NEV industry’s ability to grow via a platform ecosystem. Additionally, total innovation, private demand, and environmental-side policy upgrade the NEV industry through expanding and reconfiguring the innovation ecosystem. This study also provides suggestions for policymakers and industrialists to promote sustainable development of the NEV industry in the future.

scholarly journals Landscape Pattern Evolution Processes and the Driving Forces in the Wetlands of Lake Baiyangdian

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9747
Author(s):  
Cuiping Zhao ◽  
Jiaguo Gong ◽  
Qinghui Zeng ◽  
Miao Yang ◽  
Ying Wang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Artificial Wetlands ◽  
Dry Land ◽  
Average Decrease ◽  
The North ◽  
Lake Baiyangdian

The spatiotemporal features of land use changes and the evolution process of landscape pattern from 1980 to 2017 were investigated using historical satellite images from a Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) for 1980, 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2017 in the wetlands of Lake Baiyangdian in the North China Plain (NCP). Landscape pattern indices were used to quantify landscape changes in wetlands, and a redundancy analysis (RDA) was conducted to analyze the driving forces and quantitatively explain the effects of human activities and natural changes on wetland fragmentation. The results showed that the total wetland area was 234.4 km2 in 1980 but it decreased by 8.1% at an average decrease rate of 0.5 km2 per year. The dominant transition between land use types was from natural wetlands to artificial wetlands, and wetland conversion to dry land and residential land. The RDA results suggested that agricultural activities and total population were the main driving factors affecting wetland landscape. Additionally, climate change provided a potentially favorable environment for agricultural development, due to the increased temperatures and decreased wind speeds. Additionally, governmental policy changes and dam construction also played the roles in land use changes.

Changes and driving forces of land use/cover and landscape patterns in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1182-1189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiao-Li HU ◽  
Yong-Qing QI ◽  
Yin-Cui HU ◽  
Yu-Cui ZHANG ◽  
Cheng-Ben WU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Landscape Patterns

scholarly journals Effects of Land-Related Policies on Deforestation in a Protected Area: The Case Study of Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh

Conservation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-181
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ismail Hossain ◽  
Shinya Numata
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Wildlife Sanctuary ◽  
Landsat Images ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Total Forest Area

In protected areas (PAs) in Bangladesh, as policies shift from net deforestation, conservation initiatives and various management plans have been implemented to reduce deforestation and include public participation at multiple levels. However, the interactive effect of land-related policies on deforestation in PAs is poorly understood. In this study, land-use change analysis using geographic information system data was performed to investigate how policies affected land use and land cover change in Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary (RKWS), particularly the National Forest Policy (1979~), National Land Policy (2001~), and Agricultural Land Policy (1999~), using a series of Landsat images captured at different times. Our analyses showed that the total forest area increased in the 1994–2005 period when a plantation program was implemented, and also that many forest areas were replaced with noncommercial agricultural land areas in the 2005–2013 and 2013–2018 periods, when land zoning and co-management programs were implemented under different land-related policies. Commercial and non-commercial agricultural land expansions were the main drivers of deforestation, suggesting that several programs under the different land-related policies could have had synergetic effects on deforestation even in PAs. Our findings emphasize the importance of considering the undesirable effects of land-related policies in Pas, and the need to support the community for forest conservation.

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