An Ecological Service System Based Study on Suburban Rural Landscape Multifunction

Jie Zheng, Lisha Na, Binglin Liu, Tiantian Zhang and Hao Wang
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Jie Zheng: School of Landscape Architecture, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
Lisha Na: School of Landscape Architecture, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
Binglin Liu: The Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Tiantian Zhang: School of Architecture, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
Hao Wang: School of Landscape Architecture, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: Suburban rural landscape multifunction has received increasing attention from scholars due to its high demand and impact on main urban areas. However, few studies have been focused on suburban rural landscape multifunction because of data constraints. The present study quantified the four landscape services based on ecological service system, i.e., regulating function (RF), provision function (PF), culture function (CF), and support function (SF), determined the interaction through the Spearman correlation coefficient, and ultimately identified the landscape multifunction hotspots and dominant functions through overlay analysis. The result indicated that suburban rural communities have exhibited the characteristics of regional multifunction, and the landscape multifunction hotspots accounted for 64.2%; it should be particularly noted that, among single-function, dual-function, and multifunction hotspots, both support function, and culture function was dominant, while only one case was found in which the regulating function was dominant. Furthermore, all landscape functions other than SF-CF exhibited certain correlations. The study suggests that planning and management should be performed in future in combination with landscape multifunction to ensure the sustainable development of suburban rural communities.

Keywords: suburban rural community; landscape multifunction; ecological service system (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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