Exploring the Effectiveness of Multifunctional Cultivated Land Protection Linking Supply to Demand in Value Engineering Theory: Evidence from Wuhan Metropolitan Area
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework and Methods
2.1. Theoretical Framework
2.2. Evaluation Method of Cultivated land Multifunction
2.3. Methods for Calculating the Cost of Multifunctional Cultivated Land Protection
2.4. Value Coefficient Measurement and Effectiveness Analysis of Cultivated Land Multifunctional Protection
3. Study Area and Data
3.1. Study Area
3.2. Data
4. Results
4.1. Coefficient for Importance of Multifunctional Cultivated Land
4.2. Coefficient for Costs of Multifunctional Cultivated Land Protection
4.3. Effectiveness of Multifunctional Cultivated Land Protection
5. Discussion and Conclusions
5.1. Discussion
5.2. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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First Level Function | Second Level Function | Third Level Function | Property | Calculation Method | Weights |
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F0: Cultivated land multi-function | F1: Production function | F11: Food production per unit area (t/ha) | + | Total grain output/sown area of grain | 0.0720 |
F12: Effective Irrigation Rate (%) | + | Effective irrigation area/cultivated land area | 0.1365 | ||
F13: Contribution of Agricultural Management (%) | + | Agricultural added value/added value agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishing | 0.0639 | ||
F14: Agricultural added value per unit area (yuan/ha) | + | Agricultural added value/cultivated land area | 0.1371 | ||
F2: Social function | F21: Per capita cultivated land area (ha/person) | + | Cultivated land area/number of Agricultural Employees | 0.1335 | |
F22: Cultivated land pressure index | − | (Food self-sufficiency ratio × per capita food demand)/(yield per unit area of grain sowing surface × planted area ratio of food crops and all crops × multiple crop index × per-person cultivated land) | 0.0414 | ||
F23: Agricultural mechanization level (kW/person) | − | Total power of agricultural machinery/Number of Agricultural Employees | 0.0246 | ||
F24: Proportion of population engaged in planting | + | Number of population engaged in planting/rural employees | 0.0909 | ||
F3: Ecological function | F31: Fertilizer load per unit of cultivated land (t/ha) | − | Fertilizer application rate(convert into purification)/Cultivated land area | 0.0796 | |
F32: Carbon fixation and oxygen release (t/ha) | + | (CO2 Absorption +O2 Release)/Cultivated land area | 0.0954 | ||
F33: Diversity index of farmland ecosystem | + | =−∑bilnbi, bi is the ratio of sown area of various crops to total sown area of crops. | 0.0289 | ||
F34: Capacity of water resources protection | + | Crop canopy rainfall interception + soil water storage | 0.0961 |
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Zhang, S.; Hu, W.; Huang, L.; Du, H. Exploring the Effectiveness of Multifunctional Cultivated Land Protection Linking Supply to Demand in Value Engineering Theory: Evidence from Wuhan Metropolitan Area. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6229. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226229
Zhang S, Hu W, Huang L, Du H. Exploring the Effectiveness of Multifunctional Cultivated Land Protection Linking Supply to Demand in Value Engineering Theory: Evidence from Wuhan Metropolitan Area. Sustainability. 2019; 11(22):6229. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226229
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Siyu, Weiyan Hu, Liejia Huang, and Hongjie Du. 2019. "Exploring the Effectiveness of Multifunctional Cultivated Land Protection Linking Supply to Demand in Value Engineering Theory: Evidence from Wuhan Metropolitan Area" Sustainability 11, no. 22: 6229. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226229