scholarly journals Rural Land Use Change Driven by Informal Industrialization: Evidence from Fengzhuang Village in China

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yin ◽  
Xu Zhao ◽  
Wenjia Zhang ◽  
Pei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Furniture Industry ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use

This study investigates the spatial expansion process, the de facto land use change, and their endogenous driving forces in the village of Fengzhuang since the 1990s. Fengzhuang is a specialized village in Hebei, North China, in which above 80% of rural residents are engaged in the manufacturing of mahogany furniture. Land use data were extracted from a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) survey conducted in 2014–2015. The results suggest that the land in Fengzhuang has been expanding rapidly under the influence of the informal furniture industry. The villagers transform their residential areas into family workshops and factories for the production of furniture. Most rural areas officially marked as residential are, in effect, used for industrial production, resulting in the informality of land use and circulation. The in-depth survey also reveals that the informality of the furniture industry, the bottom-up process of land development, and the evolution of government regulation are the major reasons leading to the de facto change of land use in Fengzhuang. This study offers a microscopic perspective of land use change, which helps to explore the formation and change of rural land use and actual functions, as well as the mechanisms behind them. These findings are expected to provide some implications for improving rural development strategies, rural planning, and governance in China’s specialized villages such as Fengzhuang.

scholarly journals Analysis of Urban-Rural Land-Use Change during 1995-2006 and Its Policy Dimensional Driving Forces in Chongqing, China

Sensors ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 681-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hualou Long ◽  
Xiuqin Wu ◽  
Wenjie Wang ◽  
Guihua Dong
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Urban Rural

scholarly journals Association between Rural Land Use Transition and Urban–Rural Integration Development: From 2009 to 2018 Based on County-Level Data in Shandong Province, China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1228
Author(s):  
Zhiheng Yang ◽  
Nengneng Shen ◽  
Yanbo Qu ◽  
Bailin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Shandong Province ◽  
County Level ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Integrated Development ◽  
Land Use Transition ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Integrated development in urban and rural areas has led to a new form of urban–rural interdependence, which promotes rural territorial functional evolution and land use changes. Rural land use transition, showing the synchronous development between cities and villages, is an important window through which to observe integrated development in urban and rural areas. We focus on uncovering the association between rural land use transition and urban–rural integration development (URID), put forward a dynamic relationship assumption between rural land use transformation and URID stages based on the transmission mechanism of urban–rural linkages, and undertake empirical analysis using the panel regression model with the data of county-level administrative units in Shandong Province, China. The results show that rural land use transition has maintained a close association with URID, and that the changes in cultivated land, forest land, and surface-water area are highly related to URID. There are different leading urban–rural linkages in rural areas around big-sized cities, mid-sized cities, and small-sized cities, which determine whether rural areas are in different URID stages of high, medium, or low levels. Further, rural areas can take different actions to promote URID at different stages through strengthening or introducing urban–rural linkages driven by economies of scale and deepening urbanization. This provides a reference for developing countries to formulate rural land use policies on achieving the goal of URID.

scholarly journals Land Use Development of Vineyards in Goriška Brda, Slovenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alenka FIKFAK ◽  
Velibor SPALEVIC ◽  
Saja KOSANOVIC ◽  
Svetislav G. POPOVIC ◽  
Mladen DJUROVIC ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Cross Tabulation ◽  
The Cross

Land development analyses play a fundamental role in understanding how land use change shapes the land, depending on continuously changing social, economic, and environmental factors that reflect the interests in space. It is especially important to follow land use changes in rural areas due to their role in food security, environmental hazards, cultural landscape preservation, etc. Continuous analyses and monitoring of land use changes allow for the identification and prevention of negative trends in land use (over intensification, land fragmentation, etc.) that might affect biodiversity, change physical and chemical properties of soil, causing soil degradation, change the spatial balance, stability and natural equilibrium in the rural area. The use of the cross-tabulation matrix methodology was suggested for land use change analyses. The methodology, when the cross-tabulation matrix elements are correctly interpreted, allows us to gain as much insight as possible in the process of land use change. This approach enabled a detailed analysis of vineyards in Goriška brda, Slovenia. It was found that the existing methodology fails to analyse the location of change. For this reason, additional analyses of spatial distribution of change and of the locations where changes in space occur were suggested. The study demonstrated that the land use category of vineyards changes systematically, although seemingly randomly. By comparing land use categories over several time periods, the study determined that the size and speed of change varied across different time intervals. The identified land use changes were assessed in the context of their high pressure on agricultural land. The results of the analyses showed different trends shaping the typical agrarian landscape in Goriška brda.

Monitoring Rural Land-Use Change: A Pilot Project

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Robert Ryerson ◽  
Marie-France Germain ◽  
Udo Neilson ◽  
Rosemary Villani
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use

scholarly journals Rural Land Use Change during 1986–2002 in Lijiang, China, Based on Remote Sensing and GIS Data

Sensors ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 8201-8223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Peng ◽  
Jiansheng Wu ◽  
He Yin ◽  
Zhengguo Li ◽  
Qing Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Remote Sensing And Gis ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Gis Data

The local politics of rural land use: Place, extraction industries and narratives of contemporary rurality

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Farrugia ◽  
Joanne Hanley ◽  
Meg Sherval ◽  
Hedda Askland ◽  
Michael Askew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Rural Sociology ◽  
Extractive Industries ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Rural Place

This article contributes to discussions of place and social change in rural sociology with a focus on the local politics of rural land use. In particular, the article explores the way that one rural place is responding to changes in the local and regional economy connected with the arrival of extractive industries such as mining and coal seam gas (CSG). The article shows how attitudes towards extractive industries are formed through notions of place and community within broader narratives concerning rurality and global capitalism. The local politics of land use enrols complex and contradictory forms of place attachment into the articulation of competing narratives about rurality, and intervenes in the local social relationships of rural areas. The politics of extraction in rural Australia is therefore situated at the forefront of contemporary economic and cultural changes that are part of the reshaping of place amid the broader dynamics of contemporary global capitalism.

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