Land Use Transition and Eco-Environmental Effects in Karst Mountain Area Based on Production-Living-Ecological Space: A Case Study of Longlin Multinational Autonomous County, Southwest China

Min Wang, Kongtao Qin, Yanhong Jia, Xiaohan Yuan and Shuqi Yang
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Min Wang: College of Urban and Environment Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Kongtao Qin: College of Urban and Environment Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Yanhong Jia: College of Environment and Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541000, China
Xiaohan Yuan: College of Urban and Environment Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Shuqi Yang: College of Urban and Environment Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 13, 1-23

Abstract: The linkage mechanisms and optimization strategies between land use transition and eco-environmental effects that occur in the production-living-ecological space of karst mountain areas remain under-explored in the current literature. Based on county data collected in Longlin Multinational Autonomous County of Guangxi, which is located in the rocky desertification area of Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou, this study contributes a county-level analysis on land use transition and eco-environmental effects by addressing two research questions: (1) Which factors of land use transition are related to the eco-environmental effects of production-living-ecological space? (2) What are the key land allocation mechanisms behind the interventions of local rocky desertification regulation policies? We conducted two sets of analyses to answer these two questions: quantitative analyses of the spatial and temporal evolution between land use transition, rocky desertification, and its eco-environmental effects, and qualitative analyses of policy interventions on production-living-ecological land development and rocky desertification management. The findings show that the occurrence of rocky desertification accompanied by unreasonable land use structure transition and its important factor is caused by ecological land being restricted by production-living land. Specifically, urbanization strategies coordinating ecological and socio-economic effects is significant to karst mountain areas. Moreover, the orderly increase of woodland slows down rocky desertification. Policies of “returning farmland to forest” and “afforestation of wasteland” have significantly reduced rocky desertification that can be applied to other geographical situations.

Keywords: production-living-ecological space; karst mountain area; rocky desertification; land use transition; eco-environmental effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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