Research on the Spatial Differences and Convergence Mechanism of Urban Land Use Efficiency under the Background of Regional Integration: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Economic Zone, China

Kun Ge, Shan Zou, Danling Chen, Xinhai Lu and Shangan Ke
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Kun Ge: Department of Engineering Management and Real Estate, College of City Construction, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
Shan Zou: Department of Engineering Management and Real Estate, College of City Construction, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
Danling Chen: College of Public Administration, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Xinhai Lu: School of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Shangan Ke: School of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-20

Abstract: Revealing the spatial differences and convergence mechanism of urban land use efficiency (ULUE) under the background of regional integration is of great significance for exploring the coordinated promotion path of ULUE. We attempted to build a theoretical framework to interpret ULUE spatial convergence under the background of regional integration and build a ULUE “green” evaluation system under multi-objective constraints. Based on this, we employed the super efficiency slack-based model (SBM), exploratory spatial data analysis, and spatial convergence model incorporated into the spatial weight matrix to re-examine the true level, spatial differences, and convergence mechanism of ULUE in the Yangtze River Economic Zone from 2003 to 2019 on a city scale. The results show that: (1) during the investigation period, ULUE in the Yangtze River Economic Zone has obvious spatial disequilibrium and spatial correlation characteristics; (2) there are absolute β-space convergence and conditional β-space convergence of ULUE in the whole Yangtze River Economic Zone and its upstream, midstream, and downstream areas; (3) driven by government management, industrial development, and spatial error effects, the convergence time of ULUE in the whole Yangtze River Economic Zone and its upstream, midstream, and downstream areas is obviously shortened.

Keywords: land use; urban land use efficiency; spatial differences; convergence mechanism; the Yangtze River Economic Zone (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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