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Ecological Restoration and Reusing Brownfield Sites

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 February 2025) | Viewed by 17018

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Dr. Fuyuan Wang

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: urban ecology; tourism geography; recreation ecology; regional sustainable development
Prof. Dr. Kaiyong Wang

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: urban land use; urban geography; administrative divisions

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Dear Colleagues,

Urbanization, industrialization, and natural disasters have led to the proliferation of brownfield sites and abandoned land worldwide. These include derelict industrial and mining areas and landfills, which not only waste land resources but also hinder regional vitality. Ecological restoration and reusing these brownfield sites offer a viable solution for achieving sustainable development within the Earth's surface system. Endeavors such as ecological vacations, agricultural development, eco-tourism, and outdoor sports are harmoniously compatible with both ecological restoration and the reuse of brownfield sites. Consequently, integrating these recreational/tourism spaces or industries into the concept of ecological restoration can bolster the revitalization of brownfield sites. Nonetheless, striking a balance between ecological restoration and reusing brownfield sites while ensuring local and regional sustainable development remains a pressing issue that requires resolution.

This Special Issue calls for original research articles and review papers that delve into the spatial characteristics and impacts of ecological restoration and the reuse of brownfield sites, as well as their synergistic evolutionary laws. The Special Issue promotes a unified perspective on brownfield sites and their surrounding areas as a whole territorial system of human–land relations. Drawing upon the regional system theory of man–land relationships and the social–ecological system theory, this Special Issue aims to enhance our holistic, comprehensive, and systematic understanding of the relationship between ecological restoration and the reuse of brownfield sites. It also seeks to explore the treatment of this land and its surrounding area.

This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that link the following themes:

  • The spatial pattern of ecological restoration and the reuse of brownfield sites;
  • The co-evolution of ecological restoration and the reuse of brownfield sites;
  • Benefits/effects of ecological restoration and the reuse of brownfield sites;
  • Case studies of ecological restoration and the reuse of brownfield sites;
  • Plans for ecological restoration and the reuse of abandoned regions;
  • Policies affecting ecological restoration and the reuse of abandoned regions.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Fuyuan Wang
Prof. Dr. Kaiyong Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • brownfield sites
  • ecological restoration
  • reuse
  • land improvement
  • recreation
  • tourism
  • the revival of local vitality
  • regional transformation development
  • green development

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Nature Conservation and Sustainable Tourism in a Former Baltic Sea Coastal Military Area
by Egidijus Jurkus, Julius Taminskas, Arvydas Urbis and Ramūnas Povilanskas
Land 2025, 14(4), 887; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040887 - 17 Apr 2025
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The coastal zone consists of diverse littoral habitats, which we categorize into two primary types: linear and areal. Investigating linear littoral habitats is crucial for resolving the ‘coastal squeeze’ phenomenon in coastal and marine protected areas and in seaside resorts. Our research aims [...] Read more.
The coastal zone consists of diverse littoral habitats, which we categorize into two primary types: linear and areal. Investigating linear littoral habitats is crucial for resolving the ‘coastal squeeze’ phenomenon in coastal and marine protected areas and in seaside resorts. Our research aims to identify the critical conditions for the conversion of defunct seaside military training areas as brownfields into coastal protected areas and small-scale seaside resorts and their sustainable planning and management. The development of seaside tourism facilities is taking place both on the coast and in the hinterland, but the coast is used for tourism much more intensively than the hinterland. It is challenging to ‘pull’ tourists away from the linear beach to the areal hinterland. We argue that the distinctiveness of the resource use conflicts in coastal and hinterland tourism lies in an essential difference between the system’s linear and areal littoral habitats, as 78% of summer visitors in Pajūris Regional Park in Lithuania come for active leisure in nature. The results of our study show that combining the GIS interpretation algorithms, supported by the innovative conjoining of DPSIR and Delphi analytical tools, ensures site-tailored integrated management of the linear waterfront and the areal hinterland. Full article
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Post-Disaster Recovery Effectiveness: Assessment and Prediction of Coordinated Development in the Wenchuan Earthquake-Stricken Areas
by Liang Zhao, Chunmiao Zhang and Xia Zhou
Land 2025, 14(3), 487; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030487 - 26 Feb 2025
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Post-disaster rapid recovery and reconstruction, along with the evaluation of these efforts, are crucial for affected areas. They not only facilitate the swift repair of vulnerable systems but also reflect whether the recovery work has enhanced regional coordinated development. This is vital for [...] Read more.
Post-disaster rapid recovery and reconstruction, along with the evaluation of these efforts, are crucial for affected areas. They not only facilitate the swift repair of vulnerable systems but also reflect whether the recovery work has enhanced regional coordinated development. This is vital for achieving sustainable development post-reconstruction. This study addresses two main questions: (1) How effective were the recovery and reconstruction efforts in Mianyang, Deyang, and Guangyuan post-Wenchuan earthquake from a socio-economic–ecological system perspective? (2) What are the temporal and spatial changes in the Coordinated Development Index (CDI) of key affected counties? By constructing a framework to assess post-disaster coordinated development, this study utilized the entropy weight method and mean-variance method for the comprehensive weighting of evaluation indicators. The gray system prediction model G(1,1) was used to forecast the coordinated development levels of the three cities from 2019 to 2025. The findings reveal the following: (1) From 2005 to 2018, the CDI of Deyang, Guangyuan, and Mianyang showed a significant upward trend. Post-earthquake reconstruction measures like land planning and ecological restoration notably enhanced regional resilience and promoted coordinated development among social, economic, and ecological systems. (2) Despite overall success in reconstruction, disparities in development levels persist among Mianyang, Deyang, and Guangyuan. Predictions suggest that Deyang, Mianyang, and Guangyuan will achieve high-quality coordinated development in the next 5, 2, and 1 years, respectively. (3) Although significant achievements have been made through industrial restructuring, land reuse planning, and ecological restoration, more precise disaster prevention and mitigation strategies are needed to foster coordinated development among social, economic, and ecological systems. In summary, this study evaluates the post-disaster recovery effects in the hardest-hit areas of the Wenchuan earthquake and forecasts future development, providing a reference for similar post-disaster reconstruction areas in assessing and predicting coordinated development. Full article
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Identification and Optimization of Ecological Restoration Areas Coupled with Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand in the Northern Shaanxi Loess Plateau
by Yongxiu Sun, Yue Ren, Shiliang Liu, Wenxin Chen, Yingjie Xu, Jingzhi Xu, Panpan Dang, Zhirui Niu, Xiaoling Xu and Fangyan Cheng
Land 2025, 14(2), 287; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020287 - 30 Jan 2025
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Ecological restoration is crucial for maintaining national ecological security. Scientific and reasonable identification of key ecological restoration areas is a difficult problem facing the current national spatial planning. This study evaluated ecosystem service (ES) supply, demand, and their spatio-temporal characteristics in the Northern [...] Read more.
Ecological restoration is crucial for maintaining national ecological security. Scientific and reasonable identification of key ecological restoration areas is a difficult problem facing the current national spatial planning. This study evaluated ecosystem service (ES) supply, demand, and their spatio-temporal characteristics in the Northern Shaanxi Loess Plateau (NSLP). A coupling coordination degree (CCD) model was applied to study the interactive relationship between ES supply and demand. The improved ant colony optimization (ACO) model was applied to explore the priority areas of ecological restoration. The results showed that ES supply, demand, and balance had significant spatial differences. Higher ES supply areas were distributed in the south, and higher demand areas were located in the central and northern parts. The balance of ecosystem service exhibited a similar increasing trend to the supply of ES from north to south. Temporally, the supply, demand and balance of ES showed distinct time-varying characteristics across different types of services. Total ES supply decreased from 2000 to 2020, while total ES demand and balance first declined and then rose. Moreover, total ES balance showed a significant decreasing trend in 21.22% of regions in the NSLP. Furthermore, the CCD results showed that about 82% of the regions had a disorder status in 2000, while about 90% of the regions had a coordination status from 2010 to 2020. This also implied that the coupling coordination degree in most regions gradually improved from 2000 to 2020. Finally, four ES enhancement priorities were further identified from the perspectives of enhancing ES supply capacity. Ecological restoration prioritization of different ES enhancements showed significant spatial variations, with the top 15% of the ecological restoration area located in the east–central and west–central regions. The top 5% of total ecosystem services can bring 2,470,400 yuan in ecological benefits. This research can offer scientific and theoretical guidance as well as a reference for decision-makers to undertake ecological restoration efforts. Full article
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Assessment and Prediction of Carbon Storage Based on Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in the Gonghe Basin
by Hong Jia, Siqi Yang, Lianyou Liu, Hang Li, Zeshi Li, Yixin Chen and Jifu Liu
Land 2024, 13(12), 2180; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13122180 - 13 Dec 2024
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Land use pattern is a dominant factor causing carbon storage changes in terrestrial ecosystems and is crucial for maintaining the stability of carbon storage. Understanding the impact of land use on carbon storage variations in drylands is of great significance for local ecological [...] Read more.
Land use pattern is a dominant factor causing carbon storage changes in terrestrial ecosystems and is crucial for maintaining the stability of carbon storage. Understanding the impact of land use on carbon storage variations in drylands is of great significance for local ecological protection and the sustainable management of land resources. Based on the land use data of the Gonghe Basin from 1990 to 2020, the InVEST model was applied to analyze the spatiotemporal changes in carbon storage, and the PLUS model was used to predict the changes in carbon storage under three different development scenarios in 2030. The results are as follows: (1) From 1990 to 2020, the main land use types in the Gonghe Basin were grassland and unused land, with an overall increase in grassland and a marked decrease in unused land. (2) The spatial distribution of carbon storage was generally characterized by being low in the center and high at the edge, and grassland was the most important land use type with the highest carbon storage. Over the past 30 years, it has shown an increase followed by a decline, with an overall increase of 1.84%. (3) The carbon storage under the natural trend, urban development, and ecological protection scenarios will be 158.80 × 106 Mg, 158.66 × 106 Mg, and 159.83 × 106 Mg in 2030, respectively. The grassland and cropland areas were larger under the ecological protection scenario, which was more conducive to improving the carbon storage in this region. This study provides an effective reference for optimizing land use and achieving carbon neutrality (“dual carbon” goals) in drylands. Full article
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“Where the Moose Were”: Fort William First Nation’s Ancestral Land, Two–Eyed Seeing, and Industrial Impacts
by Keshab Thapa, Melanie Laforest, Catherine Banning and Shirley Thompson
Land 2024, 13(12), 2029; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13122029 - 27 Nov 2024
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A two-eyed seeing approach considered Indigenous knowledge and Western science towards eco–health, reconciliation and land back with Fort William First Nation (FWFN) in Ontario, Canada. To map traditional land use, occupancy, and ecological knowledge, we interviewed 49 FWFN members about their hunting, fishing, [...] Read more.
A two-eyed seeing approach considered Indigenous knowledge and Western science towards eco–health, reconciliation and land back with Fort William First Nation (FWFN) in Ontario, Canada. To map traditional land use, occupancy, and ecological knowledge, we interviewed 49 FWFN members about their hunting, fishing, trapping, plant harvesting, cultural sites, and sacred gatherings on their ancestral land. Their traditional land use and occupancy includes more than 7.5 million ha of their ancestral land. The FWFN members reported many industrial impacts on their reserve and ancestral land. We analyzed the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) change over time on FWFN’s ancestral land and the Thunder Bay Pulp and Paper Mill (TBPP)’s National Pollutant Release Inventory data to investigate the FWFN members’ ecohealth concerns. The NDVI analysis revealed large tracts of degraded FWFN’s ancestral land due to logging areas, mining claims, settlements, and paper mills. Mining claims and greenstone belts occupy a quarter of the FWFN members’ ancestral land. The TBPP mill dumped pollution into the Kaministiquia River upstream and upwind of the FWFN community, exposing FWFN members to kilotons of cancerous and other toxic chemicals each year for over a century. Resource extraction and pollution in Northwestern Ontario negatively impacted the human health and ecosystem integrity of FWFN, requiring reconciliation by restoring damaged land and preventing pollution as the starting point for land back. The first step to land back is ending the environmental racism of the TBPP’s pollution directed downstream and downwind of FWFN and protecting ancestral land against logging, mining, and other extractive industries. Full article
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Monitoring of Open-Pit Mining Areas Using Landsat Series Imagery (1984–2023) and Cloud Processing
by Pau Montero, Edgardo Bustos, Joan-Cristian Padró and Vicenç Carabassa
Land 2024, 13(8), 1301; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081301 - 16 Aug 2024
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While open-pit mining activities represent one of the human-derived most impactful land cover changes, these changes and the linked restoration processes can be challenging to assess. This article presents a reproducible methodology carried out with cloud processing of satellite images (Google Earth Engine [...] Read more.
While open-pit mining activities represent one of the human-derived most impactful land cover changes, these changes and the linked restoration processes can be challenging to assess. This article presents a reproducible methodology carried out with cloud processing of satellite images (Google Earth Engine (GEE)) to evaluate the evolution of open-pit mining activities and their restoration in a Mediterranean landscape. For this purpose, the calculation of the normalized differential vegetation index (NDVI) was used to obtain a quantitative parameter to monitor vegetation presence in each extractive area. To validate these results, confusion matrices were performed between the classification obtained in the study and the official land cover mapping, using randomly selected mining areas as test points, with an average accuracy of 88%. According to the methodology used, the surface of areas denuded by mining in the period 1984–2023 has fluctuated over time, with a maximum in 2005 coinciding with the peak of the Spanish construction boom, and a subsequent decrease towards the present. From these results, it can be concluded that Landsat-type data processed using GEE provide a quick and useful tool for monitoring the evolution of mining activity, including restoration trends, becoming particularly valuable for public bodies’ inspections or decision making. Full article
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Ecological and Environmental Risk Warning Framework of Land Use/Cover Change for the Belt and Road Initiative
by Yinjie He, Dafang Wu, Shuangcheng Li and Ping Zhou
Land 2024, 13(8), 1281; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081281 - 14 Aug 2024
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Land use/cover change(LUCC) has a significant impact on the ecological environment. Within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as the largest cross-spatial cooperation initiative in human history, one of the core issues is how to scientifically and effectively use and manage the land [...] Read more.
Land use/cover change(LUCC) has a significant impact on the ecological environment. Within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as the largest cross-spatial cooperation initiative in human history, one of the core issues is how to scientifically and effectively use and manage the land in the region to prevent the destruction of important ecological and environmental resources. In order to reduce impact on the latter, in this study, we used the bivariate choropleth–multiple-criteria decision analysis (BC-MCDA) method based on the connotation of the sustainable development goals to construct an ecological and environmental risk warning framework. We found that in the study area, 10.51% of the land has high ecological and environmental risk and importance, corresponding to conflict zones, which require special attention. Conflict areas are mainly distributed in the Gangetic Plain in India, the plains in central and southern Cambodia, the Indonesian archipelago, and the southern coastal areas of China. Due to the uneven spatial distributions of population and important ecological and environmental resources, the pressure on this type of land use is very high. A share of 8.06% of the land has high risk–low importance, corresponding to economic development zones. Following years of human development, the ecological and environmental value of this type of land is low. A share of 58.75% of the land has low risk and importance, corresponding to wilderness areas. The natural climatic conditions of this type of land are relatively poor, often characterized by a cold climate or water scarcity, and the human interference index is low. A share of 22.68% of the land has low risk–high importance, corresponding to ecological conservation areas, which are the most important areas for ecological function services for humans at present. Finally, we proposed development suggestions for each type of land. Full article
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The Identification, Spatial Distribution, and Reconstruction Mode of Abandoned Mining Areas
by Viorel Gligor, Emanuela-Adina Nicula and Remus Crețan
Land 2024, 13(7), 1107; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13071107 - 22 Jul 2024
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The rehabilitation of abandoned mining sites is an increasingly pressing issue in the context of sustainable development. Recent research has emphasized the need for a holistic approach to the abandoned mining sites and their environmental rehabilitation. Based on field analysis, environmental assessments, satellite [...] Read more.
The rehabilitation of abandoned mining sites is an increasingly pressing issue in the context of sustainable development. Recent research has emphasized the need for a holistic approach to the abandoned mining sites and their environmental rehabilitation. Based on field analysis, environmental assessments, satellite imagery processing and geographic information operations, this paper pushes forward the existing knowledge by conducting a comprehensive assessment of abandoned mining sites in the Romanian Carpathians and by proposing innovative and sustainable rehabilitation solutions. Our findings highlight that abandoned mining sites and their surrounding territories in the Romanian mountains have significant ecological imbalances and complex socio-economic issues. The findings also suggest that by adopting innovative, integrated, and sustainability-oriented approaches, territories affected by mining can be transformed into valuable and sustainable spaces to meet human needs. We conclude by presenting the importance of innovation in ecological reconstruction and spatial–functional reintegration of mining sites in mountain areas as a useful tool in making fair decisions, both in the context of implementing appropriate development policies as well as for the resilience and environmental sustainability of mining-affected mountain areas. Full article
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Spatiotemporal Evolution of Land Cover and Landscape Ecological Risk in Wuyishan National Park and Surrounding Areas
by Yuzhi Liu, Wenping Cao and Fuyuan Wang
Land 2024, 13(5), 646; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13050646 - 9 May 2024
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Previous research on national park conservation has predominantly concentrated on their internal regions, with scant attention given to the parks and their adjacent areas as integrated entities. Therefore, the investigation of land cover and landscape ecological risks in national parks and surrounding areas [...] Read more.
Previous research on national park conservation has predominantly concentrated on their internal regions, with scant attention given to the parks and their adjacent areas as integrated entities. Therefore, the investigation of land cover and landscape ecological risks in national parks and surrounding areas is essential for overall ecosystem protection and regional sustainable development. This study examines the spatiotemporal evolution of land cover and its landscape ecological risk in Wuyishan National Park, China, and its surrounding areas (WNPSA) from 1990 to 2020. The results show that (1) the land cover of WNPSA from 1990 to 2020 predominantly exhibited a consistent decline in forested areas, paralleled by an augmentation in farmland and impervious surface areas. The center of standard deviation ellipse of impervious surfaces has been progressively moving further south in tandem with the expansion of these surfaces, primarily located within the county town of Fujian Province. (2) The Wuyishan National Park (WNP) areas were dominated by low values of landscape index, and the high value areas in the park were mainly located at the provincial boundary area, with a gradual narrowing during 1990–2020, suggesting a decrease in landscape heterogeneity within the park. High value areas in the surrounding areas mainly occurred in areas with clustered impervious surfaces (e.g., the county town), where part of them located in Wuyishan City have spread to the edge area southeast of WNP. (3) From 1990 to 2020, the lowest-risk areas continue to expand. However, as the medium-risk zone of the adjacent region extends into the edge of the national park, the low risk zone within the national park exhibits a trend from continuous to separate with the neighboring low risk zone. This led to an escalating stress effect on the ecological security of both the adjacent regions and the national park’s boundary areas due to land cover changes. Full article
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Tourism Development and Rural Land Transfer-Out: Evidence from China Family Panel Studies
by Pengfei Sun and Hong Cao
Land 2024, 13(4), 426; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040426 - 27 Mar 2024
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For a long time, the decline in agricultural comparative returns and the urban–rural development gap in China have prompted the outflow of rural labor. Land transfer policies, which allow farmers to retain their land contracting rights while transferring their management rights, were instituted [...] Read more.
For a long time, the decline in agricultural comparative returns and the urban–rural development gap in China have prompted the outflow of rural labor. Land transfer policies, which allow farmers to retain their land contracting rights while transferring their management rights, were instituted to mitigate the impact of labor outflow on land use and agricultural production. In recent years, tourism has contributed to the diversification of the rural economy and has had an essential impact on the urban–rural allocation of elements such as labor. In this paper, we adopt a probit model to investigate the impact of tourism development on rural land transfer-out by using data from the China Family Panel Studies. The results show that the marginal effect of tourism development is significantly negative, indicating that the probability of rural land transfer-out was significantly reduced with tourism development. The results are still valid after a series of robustness tests. A mechanism analysis indicates that tourism development inhibits land transfer by enhancing local vitality, such as increasing the local employment of rural labor and promoting participation in agricultural production. Moreover, from the perspective of rural welfare and asset prices, further research finds that tourism development contributes to poverty alleviation and increases land value. These results suggest that tourism development inhibits land transfer while promoting rural sustainable development, helping to understand the impact of tourism on rural land use and household asset allocation from a more comprehensive perspective. Full article
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Evolution and Optimization Simulation of Coastal Chemical Industry Layout: A Case Study of Jiangsu Province, China
by Haixia Zhao, Binjie Gu, Xin Li and Mingjie Niu
Land 2024, 13(4), 420; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040420 - 26 Mar 2024
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In the face of geopolitical challenges and climate change, economic progress, safe production, and environmental protection have emerged as important directions for chemical industry development. However, the rational optimization of the chemical industry layout under the backdrop of ecological environmental protection necessitates further [...] Read more.
In the face of geopolitical challenges and climate change, economic progress, safe production, and environmental protection have emerged as important directions for chemical industry development. However, the rational optimization of the chemical industry layout under the backdrop of ecological environmental protection necessitates further exploration. This study explores the evolution and future development direction of the chemical industry layout within the coastal region of Jiangsu Province, China, using the CA–Markov model. The findings reveal a trend of spatial agglomeration growth among coastal chemical enterprises, with Moran’s Index increasing from 0.109 in 2007 to 0.206 in 2017. The petrochemical industry, in particular, demonstrated the most significant agglomeration effect, with approximately 52.10% being concentrated in 14 coastal industrial parks in 2017. Under the constraints of the ecological environment and policy guidance, the land area allocated for the chemical industry experienced a reduction of over 10%, further strengthening the emphasis on spatial agglomeration. Chemical industries along Jiangsu’s coast have become agglomerated and concentrated near industrial parks and ports. Their spatial distribution and connectivity were mainly influenced by factors such as convenient transportation, the ecological environment, local policies, the distance from residential areas, and industrial agglomeration. Under different scenarios—including natural growth, ecological environment constraints, and policy guidance—chemical industries show diverse spatial patterns. Ecological environmental constraints and policy guidance can provide various intervention methods for the government to promote the optimization direction and focus of the chemical industry layout while minimizing its impact on the ecological environment. Full article
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