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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,716 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2022

Urbanization and increasing demand for natural resources and land have affected the urban thermal environment. This is an important hot topic in urban climate research. In this study, we obtained multi-time scale land surface temperatures (LST) at th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,271 Views
18 Pages

Eco-Economic Coordination Analysis of the Yellow River Basin in China: Insights from Major Function-Oriented Zoning

  • Zhongwu Zhang,
  • Tianying Chang,
  • Xuning Qiao,
  • Yongju Yang,
  • Jing Guo and
  • Han Zhang

3 March 2021

The ecological-economic coordination degree model is widely used to analyze eco-economic coordination relationships, but methods for determining the relative weights of the ecological and economic systems lack a scientific basis. Examining the Yellow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,782 Views
14 Pages

The natural ecological lands, such as forest land, grassland, wetland, etc., constitute the most important factor for maintaining and preserving the earth’s ecosystem, which must be well concerned in the regional function-oriented planning for the su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,027 Views
15 Pages

5 September 2018

This study aimed to determine factors of rural income inequality changes in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China, to help formulate measures to reduce regional inequality and alleviate poverty in the southwestern mountainous ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,103 Views
20 Pages

Spatiotemporal Evolution of Carbon Emissions According to Major Function-Oriented Zones: A Case Study of Guangdong Province, China

  • Jiang Zhu,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Huiming Huang,
  • Xiangdong Yin,
  • Jiangchun Yao,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Jiexuan Wu and
  • Zhangcheng Chen

Studying the spatiotemporal evolution of carbon emissions from the perspective of major function-oriented zones (MFOZs) is crucial for making a carbon reduction policy. However, most previous research has ignored the spatial characteristics and MFOZ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
985 Views
26 Pages

25 August 2025

China’s major function-oriented zoning (MFOZ) serves as a crucial policy instrument for functional regulation of land use, playing a significant role in the latest territorial spatial planning. Studies on the implementation of MFOZ have been co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,370 Views
26 Pages

28 May 2014

Urban competitiveness aids local development by encouraging the exploitation of opportunities for economic development and by enhancing overall performance. Previous studies have evaluated urban competitiveness primarily from an economic perspective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,466 Views
12 Pages

19 May 2023

Major function-oriented zone (MFOZ) planning is an important blueprint for the spatial development and protection of the Chinese national territory. The “Three Zone Space” (TZS) perspective, including agricultural space, ecological space,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,641 Views
20 Pages

28 June 2024

The concept of major function-oriented zones is highly compatible with the idea of spatially synergistic carbon reduction. In this study, 2005–2020 is taken as the research period, and 305 counties in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region are ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,907 Views
15 Pages

26 September 2018

The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is an important ecological security barrier for China. The spatial-temporal pattern of land use changes and changing characteristics of soil conservation function were analyzed based on the Major Function-Orient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,474 Views
21 Pages

7 August 2023

Vigorous emphasis has been placed on optimizing land spatial planning to protect carbon storage and enhance ecosystem resilience. What is the effectiveness of the Major Function-Oriented Zone (MFOZ) planning implemented to achieve this goal in China?...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,398 Views
22 Pages

19 March 2024

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as a reference point in the global policy-making process, with their quantitative evaluation at various scales integrating spatial planning still under exploration. Major Function Oriented Zone (MFOZ) planni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,332 Views
18 Pages

24 August 2018

The realization of regional sustainable development has been a popular research topic during the process of urbanization. To explore the coordination relationships between urban development and ecological security—taking Urumqi city, a represen...