Spatio-Temporal Features and Influencing Factors of Homesteads Expansion at Village Scale

Jie Zhang, Shengping Liu, Zijuan Zhao, Bin Li, Beilei Fan () and Guomin Zhou ()
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Jie Zhang: Institute of Agricultural Information, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Shengping Liu: Institute of Agricultural Information, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Zijuan Zhao: Institute of Agricultural Information, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Bin Li: College of Ecology and Environment, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
Beilei Fan: Institute of Agricultural Information, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Guomin Zhou: Institute of Farmland Irrigation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinxiang 453002, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-23

Abstract: The current research on the change of homesteads has rarely combined spatial information, and no expansion research has been found with a scale as detailed as the level of the homestead plots. Understanding the changing rules of homesteads expansion and its influencing factors are important to homestead reform, optimization of village layout, and cultivated land protection. In order to explore the direction, level, and spatial pattern of homesteads expansion from 2010 to 2020 and the influencing factors, by taking six villages in Deqing County as an example, this research proposed a tract division scheme based on multidistance spatial clustering and intersecting area index and used homesteads expansion index and geographical detector. The results showed that (1) 83.3% of the villages had a decreasing trend of homesteads expansion, and half of the villages’ homesteads remained unchanged in their distribution direction. (2) The average order of factors influencing the expansion of homesteads was: distance from road > altitude > slope > policy restriction > distance from water area > slope aspect. This study helps to understand the spatio-temporal features of homesteads expansion in small-scale areas, provides an empirical reference for deepening homesteads reform and policy formulation, and also provides new methods for quantitative research on homesteads expansion.

Keywords: village scale; homesteads; expansion pattern; spatio-temporal features; influencing factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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