Spatial Differentiation and Driving Mechanisms of Ecosystem Service Value Change in Rural Land Consolidation: Evidence from Hubei, China

Mingqing Liu, Chaozheng Zhang, Xiaoyu Sun, Xupeng Zhang, Dongming Liao, Jiao Hou (), Yaya Jin, Gaohui Wen and Bin Jiang
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Mingqing Liu: College of Marxism, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
Chaozheng Zhang: College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Xiaoyu Sun: College of Public Administration, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Xupeng Zhang: College of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Dongming Liao: College of Public Administration, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Jiao Hou: College of Management, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430074, China
Yaya Jin: College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Gaohui Wen: College of Geographical Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Bin Jiang: College of Public Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: Rural land consolidation projects (RLCPs) have become one of the largest organized human activities to change land use patterns and impact terrestrial ecosystems, and it may also be an important precondition to improving ecosystem service value (ESV). Evaluating the change in ecosystem service value (ESV) is an important basis for measuring the effectiveness of RLCPs. Therefore, this paper, taking RLCPs implemented at County Level in Hubei Province, China, as an example, uses the improved ESV evaluation model to analyze the spatial differentiation of ESV change in RLCPs and then adopts geographic detectors and a geographically weighted regression model to identify the dominant factors affecting the ESV change in RLCPs. The results showed that (1) although RLCPs make the unevenness of land use obvious, they reduce the complexity of land use evidently and improve the dominance of land use significantly; (2) The ESV of RLCPs in 71 counties of Hubei Province increased, with an average increase of USD 2.37 × 10 7 a −1 . The ESV increase is large in central Hubei, while small in eastern and western Hubei. However, the increase rate of ESV is high in eastern and central-north Hubei, while low in western and central-south Hubei. This indicates that RLCPs can effectively promote ESV, but there are significant regional differences, and (3) the ESV increase is positively correlated with GDP and construction scale, but negatively linked with investment and per capita income of rural residents. The ESV increase rate is negatively associated with cultivated land proportion and land use diversification index change, but it is positively related to the change in the land use evenness index. However, their driving effects have significant spatial heterogeneity.

Keywords: rural land consolidation projects; ecosystem service value; spatial differentiation; driving mechanisms; equivalent factor method; geographically weighted regression model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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