Exploring the High-Quality County-Level Development and Governance Response for Farming–Pastoral Ecotone in China: A Case Study of Kulun

Zhe Cheng, Anni Tang, Jianming Cai and Tao Song ()
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Anni Tang: School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Jianming Cai: Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Tao Song: Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 12, 1-18

Abstract: As a special territory type, the farming–pastoral ecotone is facing challenges surrounding path creation and high-quality and sustainable development. Counties are not only an important spatial unit to promote high-quality development, but also an important part of the modernization of the national governance system. County-level development is the critical driving force of sustainable development and the breakthrough of governance modernization in the farming-pastoral ecotone. First, this study systematically reviews the progress of the farming–pastoral ecotone and high-quality development. Then, this study adopts the “Driving Forces-Pressure-State-Impact-Responses” (DPSIR) model and entropy method to construct an analysis framework. Third, taking Kulun county as a typical case, this study diagnoses the state of high-quality county-level development in the farming–pastoral ecotone. Finally, a governance mechanism of “idea-space-industry-people’s livelihood-governance” has been proposed. This study provides theoretical guidance for the high-quality development of the farming–pastoral ecotone and enriches the body of knowledge regarding high-quality development.

Keywords: farming–pastoral ecotone; regional sustainable development; integrated governance; urbanization; DPSIR model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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