Land Use Conflict Detection and Multi-Objective Optimization Based on the Productivity, Sustainability, and Livability Perspective
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 37049
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Interests: overall optimization for the Production–living–ecological (PLE) space; remote sensing applications for resources and environment; spatio-temporal simulation for the potential and benefit of renewable energy resources
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Interests: remote sensing of global change; land cover and land use change; integrated monitoring and assessment of terrestrial ecosystem
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Interests: land use classification and evolvement based on the Production–living–ecological (PLE) Perspective; resource utilization and its environmental impact; water-energy nexus
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Land use affects regional sustainable development in many aspects, so insight into its influence is of great importance for the optimisation of national space. With the rapid economic growth and the accelerating industrialization, there has been a noticeable increase in the contention and conflict between various land uses. For example, the expansion of urban and industrial land has occupied a large amount of high-quality farmland, leading to serious contradictions between socioeconomic development and cultivated land resources protection. Solving these problems has thus become an important scientific proposition for regional sustainable development in the field of human-economic geography. Based on the widely recognized development goals for productivity, sustainability, and livability perspectives, a scientific classification system, spatial conflict detection and multi-objective optimization of land use functions (LUFs) have provided an efficient means for land use planning and management, sparking extensive attention of researchers and policymakers. For example, Production-living-ecological space (PLE), the shortened form for productive space (PS), living space (LS), and ecological space (ES), is reclassified considering both land use functions and utilization types based on the productivity, sustainability, and livability perspective. First proposed by the Chinese Government Report in 2012, it has made prominent contributions to improving the protection system of spatial development while implementing major function-oriented zoning at all scales. Successful implementation in China proves that PLE contains promotional value to provide support for space use allocation, land use conflict management, and sustainable development. However, compared to the literature available in functional classification and identification based on the productivity, sustainability, and livability perspectives, it is surprising that very few among the increasing number of papers dealing with LUFs are devoted to its conflict detection and multi-objective optimization with land-use planning, which has left many significant questions unanswered. There were few reports on integrated research that especially lack international practical application. Thus, the theoretical research and practical applications of multi-functional complex of land use still need to be further refined.
This Special Issue entitled “Land Use Conflict Detection and Multi-Objective Optimization Based on Productivity, Sustainability, and Livability Perspectives” mainly focuses on the functional classification, spatial conflict detection, and spatial development pattern optimization based on the productivity, sustainability, and livability perspectives, presenting a relevant opportunity for all scholars to share their knowledge from the multidisciplinary community across the world, including landscape ecologists, social scientists, and geographers. Further progress in theoretical research and practical applications on the scientific classification system towards productivity, sustainability, and livability, such as PLE classification of China, are welcome. We also seek integrative studies regarding suitability evaluation, optimized mode of the multi-functional land-use systems, to meet the target of geographical space optimization and regional sustainable development.
Prof. Dr. Dong Jiang
Prof. Dr. Jinwei Dong
Dr. Gang Lin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- production-living-ecological spaces (PLE)
- spatial conflict classification
- multi-functional dynamic evolution
- multi-objective optimization
- machine learning methods
- land use model
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