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Land Resource Use Efficiency and Sustainable Land Use

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 5003

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ying Hou

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Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
Interests: land use simulation; land use change and eco-environmental effect
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Dr. Baoyin Liu

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Guest Editor
Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: sustainable development; land resource management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Land resource utilization efficiency refers to the extent land resources are fully utilized within a specific time and space range. With the development of industrialization and the promotion of urbanization, the demand for land resources is also increasing. Therefore, in the case of limited land resources, it is particularly important to improve the efficiency of utilizing land resources from the perspective of promoting social-ecological balance and sustainable development. At present, the overall efficiency of land resource utilization in some developing countries is not high, and the phenomenon of land waste is relatively serious and a key factor in restricting social and economic development in these countries. A number of social, economic, demographic, and biophysical factors can affect the efficiency of land resource use; it is, therefore, essential to improve the efficiency of land resource use by adopting sustainable land management practices and scientific land use models.

This Special Issue aims to encourage the scientific and research community to contribute innovative ideas and suggestions that can improve the efficiency of land resource use. Since the journal Land is a key platform for readers and contributors concerning this topic, this journal provides a suitable platform for our Special Issue, “Land Resource Use Efficiency and Sustainable Land Use”.

We invite conceptual works and original research, review, and synthesis papers that address research issues, including, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • The evaluation of land resource utilization efficiency;
  • Urban and rural-integrated development and land resource utilization efficiency;
  • The utilization rate of land resources and modernization of agricultural production;
  • Land resource management and land use transformation;
  • The spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of land use efficiency.

Dr. Ying Hou
Dr. Baoyin Liu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • land resources
  • land use efficiency
  • land management
  • rural industrial integration
  • land conversion
  • agricultural labor productivity

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The Evolutionary Game in Regulating Non-Agricultural Farmland Use within the Integrated Development of Rural Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Industries
by Liang Cheng, Huimin Huang, Yong Sun, Zhicui Li and Hongyan Du
Land 2024, 13(10), 1600; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13101600 - 1 Oct 2024
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Food security is a cornerstone of national development, and farmland protection and rationale are crucial for its assurance. However, integrating primary, secondary, and tertiary industries (IPSTI) in rural areas places significant pressure on farmland, threatening food security. This paper employs an evolutionary game [...] Read more.
Food security is a cornerstone of national development, and farmland protection and rationale are crucial for its assurance. However, integrating primary, secondary, and tertiary industries (IPSTI) in rural areas places significant pressure on farmland, threatening food security. This paper employs an evolutionary game model to explore how effective IPSTI can be achieved through stakeholder cooperation, ensuring rational farmland use under strict protection policies. The results reveal eight local equilibrium points in the game model, which can achieve asymptotic stability under varying conditions. Additionally, the behavioral parameters of local governments significantly impact their regulatory strategies for the non-agricultural use of farmland. When benefits increase, or penalties are strengthened, local government regulatory initiatives increase, constraining the behaviors of other participants. The village committee’s support strategy is influenced by benefits and costs, requiring a balance between promoting local economic development and minimizing non-agricultural use of farmland by enterprises. Enterprises’ decision-making primarily depends on the trade-off between the benefits and costs of non-agricultural use of farmland. The core findings of this study provide a crucial theoretical basis and decision support for formulating farmland protection policies and promoting industrial integration. Full article
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Spatiotemporal Evolution of Urban Land Green Utilization Efficiency and Driving Factors: An Empirical Study Based on Spatial Econometrics
by Junlan Tan, Xiang Su and Rong Wang
Land 2024, 13(8), 1272; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081272 - 12 Aug 2024
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Green development is an inevitable choice for sustainable development under the constraints of environmental resources. This paper attempts to explore the connotation of urban land green utilization efficiency (LGUE) and reveal its spatial differentiation characteristics. This study adopts the super-SBM model to measure [...] Read more.
Green development is an inevitable choice for sustainable development under the constraints of environmental resources. This paper attempts to explore the connotation of urban land green utilization efficiency (LGUE) and reveal its spatial differentiation characteristics. This study adopts the super-SBM model to measure LGUE from 2009 to 2022 and analyzes the spatiotemporal variation rules. Then, the study reveals the spatial influencing factors of LGUE, drawing the following conclusions: (1) the average efficiency value of LGUE at the national level is still at a low level, but it is on an upward trend. There are significant differences in LGUE among the eastern, central, and western regions, with the highest LGUE in the eastern region and the lowest in the western region. (2) The spatial distribution of LGUE in various cities across the country is not entirely random but shows significant spatial autocorrelation characteristics. The improvement in LGUE in a region can improve the surrounding region’s LGUE. (3) Economic development level promotes the improvement of local city LGUE, but its impact on LGUE of surrounding neighboring cities is not significant; local city industrial structure upgrading can improve LGUE in both local and neighboring cities; foreign investment in local cities can promote LGUE in both local and neighboring cities; the increase in population density will hinder LGUE in local cities but improve surrounding cities LGUE. The intervention degree of local city government will suppress the improvement of LGUE in both local and neighboring cities. Full article
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Spillover Effects of Urban Expansion on Land Green Use Efficiency: An Empirical Study Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data in China
by Zhen Deng, Fan Xiao, Jing Huang, Yizhen Zhang and Fang Zhang
Land 2024, 13(7), 1102; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13071102 - 21 Jul 2024
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Land is an important carrier of resource elements, and improving land green use efficiency (LGUE) is the key to achieving “smart growth” in cities. This study takes 269 cities in China from 2008 to 2020 as the research object and integrates multisource remote [...] Read more.
Land is an important carrier of resource elements, and improving land green use efficiency (LGUE) is the key to achieving “smart growth” in cities. This study takes 269 cities in China from 2008 to 2020 as the research object and integrates multisource remote sensing data, GIS spatial analysis, and spatial econometric models to explore the evolutionary characteristics of LGUE and the spatiotemporal effects of urban expansion on LGUE. The results show that (1) urban LGUE increases over time and has certain gradient distribution and spatial dependence characteristics; (2) urban expansion has a significant inverted U-shaped relationship with LGUE, indicating that maintaining reasonable urban expansion is the key to improving LGUE, but excessive urban expansion has a strong negative spatial effect on LGUE. In terms of spillover effect, for every 1% increase in the square term of urban expansion, the LGUE of the local city decreases by 0.0673%, but the neighboring city increases by 0.2283%; and (3) urban expansion has significant spatiotemporal heterogeneous effects on LGUE, and spatial development boundaries must be reasonably determined to achieve “smart growth”. Currently, some cities in China are expanding rapidly, and we hope to provide key support for promoting the “smart growth” of cities and improving LGUE. Full article
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Research on Territorial Spatial Development Non-Equilibrium and Temporal–Spatial Patterns from a Conjugate Perspective: Evidence from Chinese Provincial Panel Data
by Aihui Ma, Yijia Gao and Wanmin Zhao
Land 2024, 13(6), 797; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060797 - 4 Jun 2024
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Clarifying the intrinsic nature and formation mechanisms of the territorial spatial development non-equilibrium, optimizing the allocation of territorial resources, promoting regional balanced development, and alleviating regional development disparities have become common endeavors of all countries seeking to enhance development quality. This study, based [...] Read more.
Clarifying the intrinsic nature and formation mechanisms of the territorial spatial development non-equilibrium, optimizing the allocation of territorial resources, promoting regional balanced development, and alleviating regional development disparities have become common endeavors of all countries seeking to enhance development quality. This study, based on the land use and socio-economic data of 31 provinces and cities in China from 2006 to 2020, utilized the kernel density estimation method and ArcGIS spatial analysis to explore the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of China’s territorial spatial development non-equilibrium. The research findings are as follows: (1) From 2006 to 2020, both the land development intensity and land supply capacity showed an increasing trend, with increases of 21.4% and 8.03%, respectively. However, their spatiotemporal evolutions significantly differed. (2) The state of the territorial spatial development non-equilibrium in China significantly improved, with a rising trend in the territorial spatial equilibrium degree. Regional disparities in the territorial spatial equilibrium degree decreased. The number of provinces and cities in a state of underdevelopment decreased from 23 to 8, while the number in an equilibrium state increased from 7 to 21. The central and western regions showed more significant improvements in the territorial spatial equilibrium degree and a greater reduction in regional disparity when compared to the eastern and northeastern regions. (3) China exhibited distinct regional disparities in the territorial spatial equilibrium degree. The overdeveloped areas were Beijing and Shanghai. The underdeveloped regions were primarily concentrated in western areas, including Sichuan, Yunnan, and Xinjiang. The high-level equilibrium regions were predominantly located in the southeastern coastal provinces and the central plains region, while the low-level equilibrium regions included Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, and the three northeastern provinces. (4) From the perspective of the number of agglomeration types, the order is HH (high–high) > LH (low–high) > LL (low–low) > HL (high–low), and China’s TSED exhibits a spatial proximity peer effect. The innovation of this study consists of the following aspects: (1) The clarification of the fact that the essence of equilibrium does not require an exact 1:1 match, as with “two horses”; rather, it entails the maintenance of a slight surplus of land supply capacity over land development intensity. This approach allows the possibility of future sustainable development by leaving room for expansion. (2) The differentiation between high-intensity conjugation (in terms of both quantity and quality) and low-intensity conjugation (quantity only) from a conjugate perspective. This categorization aids in a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the territorial spatial development non-equilibrium and its spatiotemporal patterns. It provides crucial information for the formulation of sustainable national territorial development plans and the promotion of a regional development equilibrium. Full article
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