Territorial Spatial Resilience Assessment and Its Optimisation Path: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

Jiaxing Cui, Han Jin, Xuesong Kong, Jianwei Sun, Yawen Peng and Yuanyuan Zhu ()
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Jiaxing Cui: Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis and Simulation, Academy of Wuhan Metropolitan Area, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Han Jin: Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis and Simulation, Academy of Wuhan Metropolitan Area, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Xuesong Kong: School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Jianwei Sun: School of Geographical and Environmental Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
Yawen Peng: Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis and Simulation, Academy of Wuhan Metropolitan Area, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Yuanyuan Zhu: Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis and Simulation, Academy of Wuhan Metropolitan Area, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China

Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-20

Abstract: Along with the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, the carrying capacity of territorial space has been confronted with a serious crisis. Faced with many uncertain risks and unknown disruptions, it is important to proactively address the uncertainty of future developments in planning and to improve territorial spatial resilience (TSR). Based on the connotation of TSR, we build an assessment framework for TSR containing urban, agricultural and ecological space from three dimensions, including element, structure and function. Using a variety of methods such as the source-sink landscape index, land suitability assessment, and cropland pressure index, we assessed the TSR of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) from 2000 to 2020 and comprehensively analysed its spatial and temporal evolutionary characteristics. Through data analysis, we observe that the urban spatial resilience (RU) decreases and then increases, while the agricultural spatial resilience (RA) and the ecological spatial resilience (RE) show an increasing trend. The spatial clustering in TSR is apparent, and the distribution of hot and cold spots in RA and RE is reversed in the east–west direction. The changes in TSR are influenced by a combination of RU, RA and RE, which show unique geographical characteristics. Based on the average level and overall evolution of TSR, we divided the study area into five type zones and proposed development strategies for each of them.

Keywords: territorial spatial resilience; urban–agricultural–ecological space; optimisation path; Yangtze River Economic Belt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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