Comprehensive Evaluation of Land Use Benefit in the Yellow River Basin from 1995 to 2018

Land resources are the basis of human survival and development. Land use benefit is the embodiment of land input-output ability. As an important economic zone and ecological barrier in China, it is important to calculate the land productivity in the Yellow River Basin. Using the center of gravity mo...

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Published inLand (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 6; p. 643
Main Authors Chen, Zehui, Zhang, Qianxi, Li, Fei, Shi, Jinli
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2021
Subjects
Center of gravity
center of gravity model
Ecology
Economic development
Economic factors
Economics
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
land circulation
Land resources
Land use
land use benefit
Per capita
Population density
Regional development
Regions
Research methodology
River basins
Rivers
Social change
Sustainable development
the Yellow River Basin
China
Yellow River
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Summary:Land resources are the basis of human survival and development. Land use benefit is the embodiment of land input-output ability. As an important economic zone and ecological barrier in China, it is important to calculate the land productivity in the Yellow River Basin. Using the center of gravity model and other methods, this study evaluated the land use benefit of the Yellow River Basin from 1995 to 2018 based on the selected indicators of geographic grid-scale and analyzed the regional disparity. The results revealed that the comprehensive benefits, economic benefits, and social benefits of land use were on the rise, but the ecological benefits changed in volatility. Land circulation had a great impact on the change of land use benefits. So reasonable land transfer policy should be particularly significant for land use in the Yellow River Basin. In addition, there were obvious spatial differences and agglomeration effects in land use benefit. The high values of benefits were concentrated in urban groups, which showed that areas with better economic and social development had better land use benefits. To narrow land use benefits’ spatial differences between regions, the less developed areas deserve more preferential policies to improve their economic and social levels. Besides, ecological benefits are generally not high. Thus, the land policy in the Yellow River Basin should take ecological priority as the basic principle while considering economic factors.
ISSN:2073-445X
2073-445X
DOI:10.3390/land10060643