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Arid Land Geography ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (2): 264-273.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2022.046

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Land use change based on production-living-ecology spaces and its driving forces in Shaanxi Province

DOU Ruiyin1(),ZHANG Wenjie1,2(),CHEN Chen1   

  1. 1. School of Tourism & Research Institute of Human Geography, Xi’an International Studies University, Xi’an 710128, Shaanxi, China
    2. Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca 14850, New York, the United States
  • Received:2022-01-27 Revised:2022-06-09 Online:2023-02-25 Published:2023-03-14

Abstract:

Shaanxi Province connects the eastern and western parts of China. Hence, its rational land-use planning is crucial to promote high-quality regional development. Guided by land functions, the study explored the characteristics and change trends of the production-living-ecology spaces in Shaanxi Province from 2000 to 2020 using various modeling methods (e.g., a land-use transfer matrix). Subsequently, the mechanisms of distribution changes at different scales were analyzed. The following are the conclusions. (1) The integrated land-use dynamic attitudes of the spaces fluctuated at 0.2%, with two instances of increase: the expansion of living spaces and the increase of ecological spaces. Among the single land-use dynamic attitudes, the rates of living spaces were the highest, mostly positive; the rates of production spaces were the second, mostly negative; and the rates of change of ecological spaces were mainly positive, stable at 0.1%. (2) From 2000 to 2020, the size of production space changed the most, decreasing by 2913 km2, and other spaces increased, among which ecological spaces increased more. In the secondary classification, the size of production ecological spaces changed the most, decreasing by 4036 km2, whereas the remaining types increased (except for the potential ecological space), and green ecological space increased the most (by 2025 km2). (3) The spatial distribution of spaces relates to topography. The ecology spaces that occupy the largest area were mainly located in the south, the production spaces were mainly located in the central area, and the living spaces that occupy the smallest area were mainly located in the Xi’an metropolitan zone and expanded outward yearly. (4) A factor detector indicates that the population factors dominated the spatial changes of production-living-ecology spaces in Shaanxi Province. Meanwhile, an interaction detector reveals that the results of multifactor could better explain the spatial distribution than those of single factors.

Key words: production-living-ecology spaces, land use/cover change, spatial-temporal evolution, driving mode, Shaanxi Province