Balancing the Conservation and Poverty Eradication: Differences in the Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Protected Areas between Poor and Non-Poor Counties in China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Data
2.2. Methods
2.2.1. Analysis of the Overall Spatial Distribution of Protected Areas
2.2.2. Spatial Distribution of Protected Areas in Different Sub-Regions
2.2.3. Relationship with Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors
3. Results
3.1. Overall Spatial Distribution of Protected Areas in Poor and Non-Poor Counties
3.2. Spatial Distribution of Protected Areas in Poor and Non-Poor Counties in Different Sub-Regions
3.3. Relationship between the Spatial Distribution of Protected Areas and Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Population | National Bureau of Statistics, 2016 (http://www.stats.gov.cn/, accessed on 31 October 2021) |
GDP | National Bureau of Statistics, 2016 (http://www.stats.gov.cn/, accessed on 31 October 2021) |
Farmland | 2015 national land use data (30 m spatial resolution) |
Elevation | 30 m ASTER GDEM V2 from Geospatial Data Cloud (http://www.gscloud.cn/, accessed on 5 November 2021) |
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Fan, L.; Feng, C.; Wang, Z.; Tian, J.; Huang, W.; Wang, W. Balancing the Conservation and Poverty Eradication: Differences in the Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Protected Areas between Poor and Non-Poor Counties in China. Sustainability 2022, 14, 4984. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14094984
Fan L, Feng C, Wang Z, Tian J, Huang W, Wang W. Balancing the Conservation and Poverty Eradication: Differences in the Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Protected Areas between Poor and Non-Poor Counties in China. Sustainability. 2022; 14(9):4984. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14094984
Chicago/Turabian StyleFan, Luqiong, Chunting Feng, Zhixue Wang, Jing Tian, Wenjie Huang, and Wei Wang. 2022. "Balancing the Conservation and Poverty Eradication: Differences in the Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Protected Areas between Poor and Non-Poor Counties in China" Sustainability 14, no. 9: 4984. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14094984