Comprehensive Evaluation of Land Use Benefit in the Yellow River Basin from 1995 to 2018

Zehui Chen, Qianxi Zhang, Fei Li and Jinli Shi
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Zehui Chen: Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Qianxi Zhang: Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Fei Li: Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Jinli Shi: Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-22

Abstract: Land resources are the basis of human survival and development. Land use benefit is the embodiment of land input-output ability. As an important economic zone and ecological barrier in China, it is important to calculate the land productivity in the Yellow River Basin. Using the center of gravity model and other methods, this study evaluated the land use benefit of the Yellow River Basin from 1995 to 2018 based on the selected indicators of geographic grid-scale and analyzed the regional disparity. The results revealed that the comprehensive benefits, economic benefits, and social benefits of land use were on the rise, but the ecological benefits changed in volatility. Land circulation had a great impact on the change of land use benefits. So reasonable land transfer policy should be particularly significant for land use in the Yellow River Basin. In addition, there were obvious spatial differences and agglomeration effects in land use benefit. The high values of benefits were concentrated in urban groups, which showed that areas with better economic and social development had better land use benefits. To narrow land use benefits’ spatial differences between regions, the less developed areas deserve more preferential policies to improve their economic and social levels. Besides, ecological benefits are generally not high. Thus, the land policy in the Yellow River Basin should take ecological priority as the basic principle while considering economic factors.

Keywords: land use; land use benefit; land circulation; center of gravity model; the Yellow River Basin (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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