Quantitatively assessing the carrying capacity of water and land resources systems in arid and semi-arid areas is crucial for achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.In this work,taking Yulin City in China as...Quantitatively assessing the carrying capacity of water and land resources systems in arid and semi-arid areas is crucial for achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.In this work,taking Yulin City in China as a case study and employing the Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation(CRITIC)method,a modified model of coupling degree was developed to evaluate the car-rying capacity of water and land resources systems endowment and utilization,as well as their coupling coordination degree from 2013 to 2020.Our findings indicate that the water and land resources of Yulin are diminishing due to declines in agriculture,higher industrial water use,and wetland shrinkage.However,reallocating domestic water for ecological sustainability and reducing sloping farmland can mitigate this trend of decline.Temporally,as the coupling coordination between water and land resources system endowment in Yulin continuously improved,the coupling coordination between water and land resources system utilization first decreased and then in-creased with 2016 as the turning point.Spatially,the carrying capacity of water and land resources systems,the coupling coordination degree between water and land resources system endowment,and the coupling coordination degree between water and land resources system utilization in Yulin exhibited the same pattern of being higher in the six northern counties than in the six southern counties.Improving the water resources endowment is vital for the highly efficient use of water and land resources.展开更多
The Yellow River Basin(YRB)occupies an important position in China’s socioeconomic development and ecological conservation efforts.Understanding the spatiotemporal characteristics of the relationships among multiple ...The Yellow River Basin(YRB)occupies an important position in China’s socioeconomic development and ecological conservation efforts.Understanding the spatiotemporal characteristics of the relationships among multiple ecosystem services(ESs)and their drivers is crucial for regional sustainable development and human-earth system coordination.This study simulated food production(FP),water yield(WY),net primary production(NPP),soil conservation(SC),and habitat quality(HQ)in the YRB from 2000 to 2020,and evaluated the spatial evolution and the relationship of ESs at the raster scale.Redundancy analysis was used to identify the impact of natural,socioeconomic,and landscape patterns on the relationship between ESs.The results demonstrated that the average HQ per unit area decreased by 18.10%,while SC,NPP,WY,and FP increased by 42.68%,47.63%,30.82%,and 67.10%,respectively,from 2000 to 2020.The relationship between ESs in the YRB was dominated by weak trade-offs and weak synergies at a temporal scale,with the trade-offs strengthened in the Upper Yellow River Basin(UYRB)and the Middle Yellow River Basin(MYRB),and synergies strengthened in the Lower Yellow River Basin(LYRB).At the spatial scale,the relationships between HQ and WY,HQ and SC,HQ and NPP,FP and SC,and FP and HQ were all dominated by trade-offs,while other ES pairs were mostly based on synergistic relationships.In the YRB,the relationships among ESs were mainly influenced by human disturbance,precipitation,and land-use and exploitation intensity.Specifically,the trade-offs among ESs in the UYRB were primarily affected by precipitation,and those in the MYRB and LYRB by human disturbance.The heterogeneity of the landscape could also effectively promote synergies among ESs.This study could provide insights into trade-offs and synergies among ESs and their driving forces and lay a foundation for ecological restoration and sustainable development of ESs in the YRB.展开更多
In 2020, the decisive victory of building a moderately well-off society in all aspects means that absolute poverty in rural China has been completely eliminated. Consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty...In 2020, the decisive victory of building a moderately well-off society in all aspects means that absolute poverty in rural China has been completely eliminated. Consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and establishing a long-term mechanism to solve relative poverty have become key issues in high-quality development of underdeveloped areas. In this study, human-earth system is employed to analyze the element composition, structural organization and functional state of underdeveloped areas. The results show that poverty in underdeveloped areas stems from the lack of the coupling and coordinating mechanism among human, economic, resource and environmental elements, which is not conducive to transforming the ecological advantages into the advantages of regional development. In the antipoverty stage, underdeveloped areas innovate the human-earth coupling and coordinating mechanism through a series of targeted measures, promote the organic combination of poverty alleviation, ecological conservation and sustainable development, and boost the transformation of regional development and the increase of farmers’ incomes. Focusing on the 14 th Five-year Plan(2021–2025) and the long-term goal of 2035, governments in underdeveloped areas should make full use of the policy support to explore scientific methods of modern governance and sustainable development. In particular, it is necessary to practice the concept that "clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" and take the road of the ecologicalization of industry and the industrialization of ecology by establishing a policy system of "green land", "green people", "green industry" and "green right", thus building an endogenous growth mechanism of sustainable poverty alleviation and green development in China’s underdeveloped areas.展开更多
The agricultural regional type and function are the key theoretical issues in agricultural geography research.Gully agriculture in the Loess Plateau is a new regional type of agricultural system with the coupling deve...The agricultural regional type and function are the key theoretical issues in agricultural geography research.Gully agriculture in the Loess Plateau is a new regional type of agricultural system with the coupling development of the modern gully human-earth relationship.The study of its functional changes is of great practical significance for food security,rural revitalization and sustainable development of regional agriculture in the region of interest.This paper analyses the multifunctional change of gully agriculture in the Loess Plateau and its dynamic mechanism by using large-scale remote sensing data,topographic relief amplitude model,and spatial econometric model to understand internal implications for evolution differentiation at the basin level.The results show that:(1)The spatial concentration of production and supply function of agricultural products(APF)in the gully of the Loess Plateau gully is high,while the ecological conservation and maintenance function(ECF),employment and social security function(ESF),cultural heritage and leisure function(CRF)are relatively low.The four functions’spatial distribution has revealed an apparent regularity.(2)APF has been significantly enhanced,which is mainly distributed in point clusters and strips in the farming and pastoral areas in northern Shaanxi to the Yanhe river basin.The high-value areas of ESF are clustered around the urbanized metropolitan circles and urban-rural staggered areas along the Great Wall.ECF is concentrated in areas with significant natural endowments and excellent ecological conditions.CRF is significantly higher in the municipal districts and the surrounding regional central cities.(3)There are noticeable differences in the gully agriculture regional function(GARF)evolution process due to the geographical environment and socio-economic development stages.In this regard,natural factors have tremendously affected APF,ESF,and ECF,while socio-economic factors greatly differ in the four functions.There are still differences in the driving me展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(71463034)The Joint Special Fund Project of Basic Research in Local Universities of Yunnan Province of China(202101BA070001-097)。
基金Under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42271279,41931293,41801175)。
文摘Quantitatively assessing the carrying capacity of water and land resources systems in arid and semi-arid areas is crucial for achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.In this work,taking Yulin City in China as a case study and employing the Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation(CRITIC)method,a modified model of coupling degree was developed to evaluate the car-rying capacity of water and land resources systems endowment and utilization,as well as their coupling coordination degree from 2013 to 2020.Our findings indicate that the water and land resources of Yulin are diminishing due to declines in agriculture,higher industrial water use,and wetland shrinkage.However,reallocating domestic water for ecological sustainability and reducing sloping farmland can mitigate this trend of decline.Temporally,as the coupling coordination between water and land resources system endowment in Yulin continuously improved,the coupling coordination between water and land resources system utilization first decreased and then in-creased with 2016 as the turning point.Spatially,the carrying capacity of water and land resources systems,the coupling coordination degree between water and land resources system endowment,and the coupling coordination degree between water and land resources system utilization in Yulin exhibited the same pattern of being higher in the six northern counties than in the six southern counties.Improving the water resources endowment is vital for the highly efficient use of water and land resources.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.41931293National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.42171208The Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,No.XDA23070302。
文摘The Yellow River Basin(YRB)occupies an important position in China’s socioeconomic development and ecological conservation efforts.Understanding the spatiotemporal characteristics of the relationships among multiple ecosystem services(ESs)and their drivers is crucial for regional sustainable development and human-earth system coordination.This study simulated food production(FP),water yield(WY),net primary production(NPP),soil conservation(SC),and habitat quality(HQ)in the YRB from 2000 to 2020,and evaluated the spatial evolution and the relationship of ESs at the raster scale.Redundancy analysis was used to identify the impact of natural,socioeconomic,and landscape patterns on the relationship between ESs.The results demonstrated that the average HQ per unit area decreased by 18.10%,while SC,NPP,WY,and FP increased by 42.68%,47.63%,30.82%,and 67.10%,respectively,from 2000 to 2020.The relationship between ESs in the YRB was dominated by weak trade-offs and weak synergies at a temporal scale,with the trade-offs strengthened in the Upper Yellow River Basin(UYRB)and the Middle Yellow River Basin(MYRB),and synergies strengthened in the Lower Yellow River Basin(LYRB).At the spatial scale,the relationships between HQ and WY,HQ and SC,HQ and NPP,FP and SC,and FP and HQ were all dominated by trade-offs,while other ES pairs were mostly based on synergistic relationships.In the YRB,the relationships among ESs were mainly influenced by human disturbance,precipitation,and land-use and exploitation intensity.Specifically,the trade-offs among ESs in the UYRB were primarily affected by precipitation,and those in the MYRB and LYRB by human disturbance.The heterogeneity of the landscape could also effectively promote synergies among ESs.This study could provide insights into trade-offs and synergies among ESs and their driving forces and lay a foundation for ecological restoration and sustainable development of ESs in the YRB.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.41931293,No.42001203Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences,No.XDA23070300。
文摘In 2020, the decisive victory of building a moderately well-off society in all aspects means that absolute poverty in rural China has been completely eliminated. Consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and establishing a long-term mechanism to solve relative poverty have become key issues in high-quality development of underdeveloped areas. In this study, human-earth system is employed to analyze the element composition, structural organization and functional state of underdeveloped areas. The results show that poverty in underdeveloped areas stems from the lack of the coupling and coordinating mechanism among human, economic, resource and environmental elements, which is not conducive to transforming the ecological advantages into the advantages of regional development. In the antipoverty stage, underdeveloped areas innovate the human-earth coupling and coordinating mechanism through a series of targeted measures, promote the organic combination of poverty alleviation, ecological conservation and sustainable development, and boost the transformation of regional development and the increase of farmers’ incomes. Focusing on the 14 th Five-year Plan(2021–2025) and the long-term goal of 2035, governments in underdeveloped areas should make full use of the policy support to explore scientific methods of modern governance and sustainable development. In particular, it is necessary to practice the concept that "clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" and take the road of the ecologicalization of industry and the industrialization of ecology by establishing a policy system of "green land", "green people", "green industry" and "green right", thus building an endogenous growth mechanism of sustainable poverty alleviation and green development in China’s underdeveloped areas.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.42101202,No.42061037National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Science Foundation of the United States Sustainable Regional System Cooperation Research Project,No.T221101034+1 种基金China Postdoctoral Science,No.2022M710015Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,No.2022CDJSKJC29。
文摘The agricultural regional type and function are the key theoretical issues in agricultural geography research.Gully agriculture in the Loess Plateau is a new regional type of agricultural system with the coupling development of the modern gully human-earth relationship.The study of its functional changes is of great practical significance for food security,rural revitalization and sustainable development of regional agriculture in the region of interest.This paper analyses the multifunctional change of gully agriculture in the Loess Plateau and its dynamic mechanism by using large-scale remote sensing data,topographic relief amplitude model,and spatial econometric model to understand internal implications for evolution differentiation at the basin level.The results show that:(1)The spatial concentration of production and supply function of agricultural products(APF)in the gully of the Loess Plateau gully is high,while the ecological conservation and maintenance function(ECF),employment and social security function(ESF),cultural heritage and leisure function(CRF)are relatively low.The four functions’spatial distribution has revealed an apparent regularity.(2)APF has been significantly enhanced,which is mainly distributed in point clusters and strips in the farming and pastoral areas in northern Shaanxi to the Yanhe river basin.The high-value areas of ESF are clustered around the urbanized metropolitan circles and urban-rural staggered areas along the Great Wall.ECF is concentrated in areas with significant natural endowments and excellent ecological conditions.CRF is significantly higher in the municipal districts and the surrounding regional central cities.(3)There are noticeable differences in the gully agriculture regional function(GARF)evolution process due to the geographical environment and socio-economic development stages.In this regard,natural factors have tremendously affected APF,ESF,and ECF,while socio-economic factors greatly differ in the four functions.There are still differences in the driving me