Identification of Land Use Conflicts in Shandong Province from an Ecological Security Perspective

Guanglong Dong, Zhonghao Liu, Yuanzhao Niu and Wenya Jiang ()
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Guanglong Dong: School of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China
Zhonghao Liu: School of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China
Yuanzhao Niu: Binhu New District Construction and Development Center in Xintai, Taian 271200, China
Wenya Jiang: Zhuhai Nature Resource and Planning Technology Center, Zhuhai 519000, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 12, 1-18

Abstract: Accurate identification of land use conflicts is an important prerequisite for the rational allocation of land resources and optimizing the production–living–ecological space pattern. Previous studies used suitability assessment and landscape pattern indices to identify land use conflicts. However, research on land use conflict identification from the perspective of ecological security is insufficient and not conducive to regional ecological, environmental protection, and sustainable development. Based on ecological security, this study takes Shandong Province as an example and comprehensively evaluates the importance of ecosystem service function and environmental sensitivity. It identifies the ecological source, and extracts ecological corridors with a minimum cumulative resistance model from which ecological security patterns are constructed. It identifies land use conflicts through spatial overlay analysis of arable land and construction land. The results show that: (1) Shandong Province has formed an ecological security pattern of “two ecological barriers, two belts, and eight cores” with an area of 15,987 km 2 . (2) The level of arable land–ecological space conflict is low, at 39.76%. The proportions of serious and moderate conflicts are 13.44% and 26.97%, respectively, distributed primarily on the Jiaodong Peninsula and the low hill areas of Ludong. (3) Construction land–ecological space conflict is reasonably stable and controllable, at 76.39%, occurring mainly around urban construction land, with serious and moderate conflict concentrated in the eastern coastal areas, mainly between rural settlements and ecologically safe space in the region. This study has important theoretical and practical reference values for identifying land use conflicts, protecting regional ecological security, and optimizing land use patterns.

Keywords: ecological security pattern; land use conflicts; ecosystem service function; ecological sensitivity; Shandong Province (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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