Landscape Change and the Sustainable Development Strategy of Different Types of Ethnic Villages Driven by the Grain for Green Program
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Selection and Positioning of Ethnic Villages
2.3. Field Survey
2.4. Landscape Change Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Spatial Distribution of the Ethnic Villages
3.2. Landscape Change around the Ethnic Villages
3.2.1. Landscape Change around Dong Villages
3.2.2. Landscape Change around MD Villages
3.2.3. Landscape Change around Miao Villages
3.3. Distinct Influences of the GGP on Different Types of Ethnic Villages
3.3.1. The Variance of Landscape Pattern around the Ethnic Villages
3.3.2. Comparison among Representative Ethnic Villages
3.4. Impact of the GGP on Sustainable Development in the Ethnic Villages
3.5. The Relationship between Landscape Pattern Indices and Topographic Factors
4. Discussion
4.1. The Topography around Ethnic Villages Leads to the Distinct Influence of the GGP
4.2. Opportunities, Challenges, and Recommendations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Village | Land Cover | 1 km | 2 km | ||||||
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1993 | 1999 | 2009 | 2013 | 1993 | 1999 | 2009 | 2013 | ||
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village | Cropland | 48.25 | 68.93 | 46.32 | 46.16 | 46.18 | 65.67 | 31.72 | 28.07 |
Forest | 38.63 | 21.94 | 44.72 | 44.95 | 51.24 | 33.87 | 67.11 | 66.01 | |
Grassland | 4.28 | 0.47 | 0.57 | 0.51 | 2.58 | 0.46 | 0.76 | 0.67 | |
Built-up | 8.84 | 8.66 | 8.39 | 8.38 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.41 | 5.24 | |
Zhaoxing Dong Village | Cropland | 79.80 | 63.23 | 93.10 | 93.22 | 72.33 | 58.58 | 93.94 | 94.51 |
Forest | 14.34 | 32.18 | 1.40 | 1.26 | 24.91 | 40.39 | 6.05 | 5.48 | |
Grassland | 2.47 | 0.78 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.77 | 1.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Built-up | 3.39 | 3.81 | 5.50 | 5.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |
Sizhai MD village | Cropland | 59.19 | 77.05 | 59.57 | 59.57 | 36.39 | 64.96 | 54.18 | 54.30 |
Forest | 10.37 | 22.60 | 39.81 | 39.69 | 32.16 | 33.72 | 45.19 | 44.95 | |
Grassland | 30.21 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 31.42 | 1.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Built-up | 0.24 | 0.28 | 0.62 | 0.74 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.62 | 0.75 |
Year | 1 km | 2 km | |||
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Slope | Elevation | Slope | Elevation | ||
Cropland | 1993 | −0.47 ** | −0.29 ** | −0.41 ** | −0.26 ** |
1999 | −0.59 ** | −0.05 | −0.57 ** | −0.09 | |
2009 | −0.43 ** | −0.54 ** | −0.41 ** | −0.56 ** | |
2013 | −0.30 ** | −0.46 ** | −0.35 ** | −0.52 ** | |
Forest | 1993 | 0.64 ** | 0.15 * | 0.64 ** | 0.03 |
1999 | 0.62 ** | 0.06 | 0.59 ** | 0.04 | |
2009 | 0.46 ** | 0.54 ** | 0.41 ** | 0.51 ** | |
2013 | 0.47 ** | 0.53 ** | 0.40 ** | 0.49 ** | |
Grassland | 1993 | −0.28 ** | 0.29 ** | −0.39 ** | 0.25 ** |
1999 | −0.01 | 0.08 | −0.10 | 0.14 | |
2009 | 0.04 | 0.25 ** | 0.00 | 0.28 ** | |
2013 | 0.04 | 0.20 ** | 0.00 | 0.26 ** | |
ED | 1993 | −0.22 ** | −0.01 | −0.27 ** | −0.15 |
1999 | 0.03 | −0.15 * | −0.12 | −0.14 | |
2009 | −0.14 | −0.01 | −0.16 * | −0.11 | |
2013 | −0.16 * | −0.01 | −0.19 * | −0.11 | |
NP | 1993 | −0.01 | 0.27 ** | −0.07 | −0.03 |
1999 | 0.29 ** | 0.06 | 0.22 ** | 0.09 | |
2009 | 0.02 | −0.04 | 0.07 | −0.05 | |
2013 | 0.02 | −0.03 | 0.06 | −0.01 |
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Wang, D.; Higgitt, D.; Tang, Y.-T.; He, J.; Guo, L. Landscape Change and the Sustainable Development Strategy of Different Types of Ethnic Villages Driven by the Grain for Green Program. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3485. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103485
Wang D, Higgitt D, Tang Y-T, He J, Guo L. Landscape Change and the Sustainable Development Strategy of Different Types of Ethnic Villages Driven by the Grain for Green Program. Sustainability. 2018; 10(10):3485. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103485
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Dan, David Higgitt, Yu-Ting Tang, Jun He, and Luo Guo. 2018. "Landscape Change and the Sustainable Development Strategy of Different Types of Ethnic Villages Driven by the Grain for Green Program" Sustainability 10, no. 10: 3485. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103485