Spatiotemporal Decoupling between Population and Construction Land in Urban and Rural Hubei Province
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data Sources
2.3. Method
3. Results
3.1. Changes in Urban–Rural Construction Land
3.2. Changes in Population
3.3. Decoupling States Compared across Time and Space
3.3.1. Spatiotemporal Decoupling between the Total Population and the Construction Land Area
3.3.2. Spatiotemporal Decoupling between the Urban Population and the Urban Construction Land Area
3.3.3. Spatiotemporal Decoupling between the Rural Population and Rural Settlement Land Area
3.3.4. The Coordination Relationship of the Urban–Rural Population and Construction Land Change and Classification
4. Discussion
4.1. Dynamic Allocation of New Construction Land Use Indicators
4.2. From “Increasing vs. Decreasing Balance” to “Population Land Hook”
4.3. Priorities in Further Study
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Land Use Type | 2009 | 2014 | 2009–2014 | |||
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Area | %Total | Area | %Total | Variation | %Rate | |
Urban construction land | 3225.18 | 1.73 | 4240.27 | 2.28 | 1015.09 | 31.47 |
City | 1419.32 | 0.76 | 1813.35 | 0.98 | 394.03 | 27.76 |
Town | 1351.36 | 0.73 | 1965.51 | 1.06 | 614.15 | 45.45 |
Industry/mining land | 454.50 | 0.24 | 461.41 | 0.25 | 6.91 | 1.52 |
Rural construction land | 8463.48 | 4.55 | 8623.02 | 4.64 | 159.54 | 1.89 |
2009 | 2014 | Variation | %Rate | %Average Annual Rate of Change | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Urban population | 2844.51 | 3238.47 | 393.96 | 13.85 | 2.63 |
Rural population | 2879.26 | 2577.52 | −301.74 | −10.48 | −2.19 |
Total population | 5723.77 | 5815.99 | 92.23 | 1.61 | 0.32 |
Type | Urban Construction Land Per Capita | Number | Suggestion | ||
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I | > | 1 | Relax the approval of urban construction land | Strictly control the expansion of rural settlement land, prevent the loss of rural population and strengthen the rural settlements land consolidation | |
II | II | 6 | Relax the approval of urban construction land appropriately | ||
II-2 | 2 | ||||
II-3 | 3 | Appropriately control the urban expansion and actively revitalize the stock of construction land | |||
III | III-1 | 4 | Relax the approval of urban construction land appropriately | ||
III-2 | 5 | Control the urban expansion | |||
III-3 | 1 | Relax the approval of urban construction land appropriately | |||
IV | IV-1 | 6 | Maintain the relationship between urban expansion and population growth | ||
IV-2 | 14 | Strictly control urban expansion and actively revitalize the stock of construction land | |||
IV-3 | 30 | ||||
V | V-1 | 3 | Maintain the relationship between urban expansion and population growth | Maintain the declining trend of rural land | |
V-2 | 1 | Strictly control urban expansion and actively revitalize the stock of construction land | |||
V-3 | 5 | ||||
VI | 1 | Relax the approval of urban construction land appropriately | |||
VII | 1 | Strictly control urban expansion | Reduce the growth rate of rural settlement land | ||
VIII | 1 | Strictly control the expansion of rural settlement land |
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Wang, C.; Liu, Y.; Kong, X.; Li, J. Spatiotemporal Decoupling between Population and Construction Land in Urban and Rural Hubei Province. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1258. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9071258
Wang C, Liu Y, Kong X, Li J. Spatiotemporal Decoupling between Population and Construction Land in Urban and Rural Hubei Province. Sustainability. 2017; 9(7):1258. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9071258
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Chengcheng, Yanfang Liu, Xuesong Kong, and Jiwei Li. 2017. "Spatiotemporal Decoupling between Population and Construction Land in Urban and Rural Hubei Province" Sustainability 9, no. 7: 1258. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9071258