Rethinking the Man-Land Relations in China

• Other Authors: Ma, Li (Editor), Zhang, Yingnan (Editor), Gan, Muye (Editor), Shan, Zhengying (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Geography; border area; ecological security; spatiotemporal evolution; sustainable development; Yunnan Province; carbon emission; carbon neutrality; land use change; Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei; LMDI; high-speed rail; cropland abandonment; off-farm employment; migration; urbanization; land use; multi-functionality of cultivated land; breadbasket; spatiotemporal variation; coupling-coordination degree; influencing factors; agricultural land; soil erosion; RUSLE; hilly region; oasis; cultivated land function; trade-off and synergy; multi-function management; Xinjiang; land-use conflicts; "production-living-ecological space"; landscape ecological risk; man-land relations; cultivated land-use transition (CLUT); spatial morphology; functional morphology; drive mechanism; main grain-producing areas; coupling coordination degree model; "production-living-ecological" functions; human activity intensity; the synchronous development model; sustainable revitalization; green development practices; rural human-earth system science; arid areas man-land relation; Yanchi County; China; migrant workers; immigrants; land shortage; labor shortage; land transfer; vulnerability as expected poverty; farm households; heterogeneity; environmental decentralization; urban construction land supply; fiscal decentralization; political centralization; desertification; Albedo-NDVI; feature space; climate change; human activity; Gonghe Basin; PLEFs; ecological niche theory; coupling coordination; Chongqing City; human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP); urban and rural development; human activities; rural regional system; rural transformation development; poverty-stricken areas; human-land relationship; rural revitalization; Yanshan-Taihang Mountains; urbanization quality; ecosystem services; spatial-temporal variations; Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration; production-living-ecological function; water use; ecosystem service value; rural-urban transition; urban and rural integration; urban and rural relations; rural and urban disparities; n/a
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This Special Issue seeks to re-examine these changes in land relations in transitional China and rethink our understanding of human-environment interactions in both urban and rural areas, thus advancing theories in land-use science as a major component of land management and sustainability science.