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Arid Land Geography ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (10): 1692-1703.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.036

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Studies of the human-land system in the Yellow River Basin for 30 years: Context, hotspots and prospects

CHEN Qiangqiang1,2(),YANG Ling1   

  1. 1. College of Finance and Economics, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
    2. Research Center for Ecological Construction and Environmental Protection of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
  • Received:2023-01-25 Revised:2023-02-17 Online:2023-10-25 Published:2023-11-10

Abstract:

The Yellow River Basin is an important ecological barrier in China, and its ecological protection and high-quality development are major national strategies. By taking CNKI database as basic data, in this study, CiteSpace and Origin software were employed for the statistical analysis of core journals and core scholars, and the basic status, evolution, research hotspots, and frontier trends of the research on the human-land system in the Yellow River Basin were summarized. The results revealed that: (1) From 1992 to 2022, the study on the human-land system in the Yellow River Basin started earlier, but the average annual volume of documents fluctuated at a low level; the research on the human-land system had entered a new stage until 2019, and the research literature had increased rapidly. The human-land relationship in the Yellow River Basin followed the “cognition-derivation-deepening-coupling” progressive evaluation, and the application research evolved along the direction of “basin production-living-ecological space evaluation”, “urban ecosystem and economic development,” “human-land system and land space development,” and “human-land coordination and high-quality development evaluation.” (2) Based on the logic of “system structure-system evaluation-practical application,” the research hotspots were sorted. The research hotspots were transformed from a sustainable “status quo” assessment to “forward” driving factors and mechanisms and “backward” path selection research. The research methods were transformed from traditional coupling coordination analysis to the three-dimensional visual spatial analysis. The research data tended to be integrated with traditional data, remote sensing data, and large data. (3) Future research should be optimized and deepened in the direction of “extending a research field,” “attaching importance to development tools,” “building a comprehensive and integrated research system,” and “strengthening regional development” for promoting the in-depth development of the human-land system theory and provide a new perspective for the human-land system research system in the Yellow River Basin.

Key words: Yellow River Basin, human-land system, research progress, CiteSpace