The Evolution of the Interactive Relationship between Urbanization and Land-Use Transition: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta

Bo Niu, Dazhuan Ge, Rui Yan, Yingyi Ma, Dongqi Sun, Mengqiu Lu and Yuqi Lu
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Bo Niu: School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
Dazhuan Ge: School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
Rui Yan: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Yingyi Ma: School of Architectural Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, China
Dongqi Sun: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Mengqiu Lu: School of International Economics and Trade, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing 210023, China
Yuqi Lu: School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-21

Abstract: In recent years, the impact of land-use systems on global climate change has become increasingly significant, and land-use change has become a hot issue of concern to academics, both within China and abroad. Urbanization, as an important socioeconomic factor, plays a vital role in promoting land-use transition, which also shows a significant spatial dependence on urbanization. This paper constructs a theoretical framework for the interaction relationship between urbanization and land-use transition, taking the Yangtze River Delta as an example, and measures the level of urbanization from the perspective of population urbanization, economic urbanization and social urbanization, while also evaluating the level of land-use morphologies from the perspective of dominant and recessive morphologies of land-use. We construct a PVAR model and coupled coordination model based on the calculated indexes for empirical analysis. The results show that the relationship between urbanization and land-use transition is not a simple linear relationship, but tends to be complex with the process of urbanization, and reasonable urbanization and land-use morphologies will promote further benign coupling in the system. By analyzing the interaction relationship between urbanization and land-use transition, this study enriches the study of land-use change and provides new pathways for thinking about how to promote high-quality urbanization.

Keywords: urbanization; land-use transition; interactive relationship evolution; PVAR model; coupled coordination (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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