Rethinking the Man-Land Relations in China

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: agricultural land; Albedo-NDVI; arid areas man–land relation; Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei; border area; breadbasket; carbon emission; carbon neutrality; China; Chongqing City; climate change; coupling coordination; coupling coordination degree model; coupling–coordination degree; cropland abandonment; cultivated land function; cultivated land-use transition (CLUT); desertification; drive mechanism; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; ecological niche theory; ecological security; ecosystem service value; ecosystem services; environmental decentralization; farm households; feature space; fiscal decentralization; functional morphology; Geography; Gonghe Basin; green development practices; heterogeneity; high-speed rail; hilly region; human activities; human activity; human activity intensity; human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP); human–land relationship; immigrants; influencing factors; labor shortage; land shortage; land transfer; land use; land use change; land-use conflicts; landscape ecological risk; Lanzhou–Xining urban agglomeration; LMDI; main grain-producing areas; man-land relations; migrant workers; migration; multi-function management; multi-functionality of cultivated land; n/a; oasis; off-farm employment; PLEFs; political centralization; poverty-stricken areas; production-living-ecological function; production–living–ecological space; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; rural and urban disparities; rural human–earth system science; rural regional system; rural revitalization; rural transformation development; rural–urban transition; RUSLE; soil erosion; spatial morphology; spatial-temporal variations; spatiotemporal evolution; spatiotemporal variation; sustainable development; sustainable revitalization; the synchronous development model; trade-off and synergy; urban and rural development; urban and rural integration; urban and rural relations; urban construction land supply; urbanization; urbanization quality; vulnerability as expected poverty; water use; Xinjiang; Yanchi County; Yanshan-Taihang Mountains; Yunnan Province; “production–living–ecological” functions
• ISBN: 3036586687; 9783036586694; 9783036586687; 3036586695
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-8668-7

This Special Issue seeks to re-examine these changes in land relations in transitional China and rethink our understanding of human-environment interactions in both urban and rural areas, thus advancing theories in land-use science as a major component of land management and sustainability science.