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The construction path of a comprehensive rural governance system of "matter-ownership-organization" based on land use transition
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The pattern for utilization of rural space is closely related to rural transformation development (RTD). The problem of rural space utilization is an important manifestation of the uncoordinated relationship between land use patterns and rural development status during a transformation period. Considering the rural space utilization issue, this art...
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... solve the problem of ineffective organization in rural areas, an efficient organization scheme for rural space can be constructed based on the perspectives of a farmland, homestead, industrial and mining land, and village settlement system (Figure 2). Farmland land utilization organizations aim to further guarantee the orderly transition of farmland and promote the concentration of farmland among rural farmers and interested parties. ...
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... Emphasizing the "reorganization of rural resources," land consolidation starts with land concentration and extends to every facet of rural economic development, living standards, and environmental well-being. As a result, China has a much larger land consolidation workload, the ultimate goal of which is the establishment of a sustainable rural spatial governance system [17]. To accomplish this objective, Chinese scholars have summarized the correlation between land consolidation and rural revitalization in terms of the development elements of land consolidation, action programs, and regional characteristics [18]. ...
With the changing relationship between urban and rural areas in China, the rural areas are experiencing rapid social transformation. To ensure successful implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, land consolidation has become a major measure of rural economic reform. Existing research focuses on quantitative studies exploring the relationship between land consolidation and rural economic development, but there is a lack of studies on the relationship between land consolidation and social change. In this study, Jin’an Village is selected as the research area, using semi-structured interviews and semi-participatory observation to obtain original materials, aiming to make a detailed description of the specific practice of land consolidation, and to analyze the impact of land consolidation on the transformation of rural social consciousness. The study found that rural land consolidation involves villagers in the land consolidation process, which can effectively stimulate villagers’ participation in public affairs. Concurrently, the interaction between villagers and outside investors disrupts the conventional socialization model in rural areas and motivates villagers to act in accordance with contractual agreements. The conclusion is that land consolidation in rural areas can enhance the political democracy and legal consciousness of local villagers, which can lead to a change in local social consciousness. Our findings also emphasize the crucial necessity to grant rural villagers with improved accessibility to professional services and information, coupled with the continued promotion of land consolidation to advance modernization in these areas.
... However, studies on the combination of land use functions and heavy metals in soil are still rare at present, which means that there is an omission in diagnosing the coordinated relationship between regional functional services and soil environment. At the same time, the environmental pollutants caused by village production and cannot be generalised with the theories, ideas and technologies of urban research, and environmental management methods suitable for village land use need to be established (Ge et al., 2020), with the aim of achieving optimal functionality. ...
Identifying the dynamic processes of socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability is an important measure to prevent environmental degradation and improve human well-being in village areas. However, there is currently a lack of analytical frameworks that integrate socioeconomic and environmental security indicators in village areas, making it difficult to accurately identify the ecological environmental status of village areas at different stages of development. This study quantified the multifunctional land use and heavy metal pollution risks of different village areas using land use data and soil samples collected in the field. It then integrated land use functions and heavy metal pollution risks into the analytical framework using hierarchical clustering, which identified different types of village areas. The results show that: (1) The applicability and accuracy of this analytical framework are validated by a sample verification, which classifies village areas into traditional village, productive village, comprehensive village and ecotype village. (2) Most village areas belong to the traditional village with single production and life functions. With the development of village industries, some traditional villages become productive villages. Those closer to cities or with policy support continue to develop into comprehensive villages. In this process, the village socio-economy develops, land use functional services become more diverse, but heavy metal risks gradually increase. (3) Traditional villages should prevent pollution risks from Cd, Zn and other heavy metals. Productive villages should prevent Cu, Ni, Zn, Cr and other heavy metals from industrial and domestic wastewater. Comprehensive villages should strengthen soil remedi-ation and remediation of heavy metal contaminated sites, adjust industrial layout. Ecotype villages should avoid the impact of exogenous pollutants on the region and develop ecotourism industries. Through the classification results and discussion of village area types, this study effectively reveals the differences in environmental risks faced by socioeconomic development in typical village areas in China, and provides a basis for governments to formulate functional planning and environmental protection policies suitable for different types of villages.
... Spatial territoriality issues continue to be a problem in various parts of the world, including the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia [1], territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas [2], and the Russia-Ukraine war [3]. These issues exist not only on a broad, inter-regional scale between countries, but also at national and regional levels, particularly in rural areas [4]. ...
... While these have, to some degree, alleviated the contradiction between humans and land in certain areas, they have failed to fully achieve the expected results because of ongoing land use imbalances in rural areas [37]. This is mainly because regional rural development patterns and land use patterns have not aligned with changes in development conditions as a result of actions taken by key local actors [11]. This, in turn, leads to inadequacies and imbalances in rural land use transition [35]. ...
Studying land use transition and restructuring has value for promoting sustainable regional development, especially in China’s vast rural areas, which are undergoing rapid changes. Current research tends to focus on the macro level, and analyses of driving forces are mostly based on the correlation analysis of influencing factors. However, in the case of villages and towns, which are at the micro level, it is important to know who promotes land use transition and how to promote it under the influence of the macro environment. This study, therefore, focused on the endogenous driving force behind land use transition and its characteristics at the micro level of villages and towns. On the basis of our theoretical framework, an empirical study was carried out on the transformation and restructuring of ecology–production–living (EPL) spaces in the town of Zhulin in Central China over the past 30 years. We found the following: (1) The overall distribution of EPL spaces in Zhulin shifted from mixed distribution to relatively concentrated distribution, and the spatial transfer of EPL spaces showed fluctuations in the expansion and contraction of different types of spaces. (2) Land use transition was more active in spatial interface areas than in noninterface areas, where the interconversion of ecological space and agricultural production space was concentrated at the terrain interface. In addition, transformation processes related to living space and non-agricultural production space were concentrated at the urban–rural interface. (3) Macro-level social and economic changes were the root cause of land use transformation, and the autonomous spatial governance capability of villagers’ self-organization institutions was key to regulating land use transformation. The spatial interface was a sensitive area for land use transformation in a natural state. An endogenous driving mode of active response to land use transformation based on rural autonomous spatial governance capability and spatial interface sensitivity is proposed. How to improve the rural governance capacity of key local actors in different regions and at different levels is an aspect worthy of further consideration.
... Most rural areas in central, north, and northwest China are still based on traditional agriculture and do not have the conditions of institutional creation and high-quality social capital support . Meanwhile, in East China, where in-situ urbanization is typical, there are significant differences in labor migration, land use patterns, and population structure from traditional farming areas (Ge et al., 2020b;Long and Qu, 2017). In some areas of central and western China, it is difficult for rural governance to obtain good local financial and social capital support. ...
Rural governance has become a hot topic alongside rapid urbanization, especially in several Global South countries. Under China's new-type urbanization, rural and suburban space in the Yangtze River Delta has entered the metropolitan system. The rural-urban boundary has been blurred, reflecting the characteristics of planetary urbanization. Rural governance in the metropolitan fringe areas exhibits characteristics different from that in the traditional rural areas. Taking Liushe Village of Suzhou as a typical case, this study linked planetary urbanization to collaborative governance theory and constructed a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to explore the process, characteristics, and mechanism of its rural governance based on qualitative research methods. Liushe has undergone three stages under rapid urbanization: traditional agriculture, ecological conservation, and culture-tourism integration, which have led to the continuous transformation of the rural governance mode. Local governments, creative entrepreneurs, and the village collective are the three key subjects in formulating collective actions. The collaborative governance of Liushe reflects the multi-dimensional superposition of institutional design, social capital, and collective attributes. The case study provides a reference for exploring China's new rural governance mode. The rural spatial reconstruction of Liushe Village partly supports the view of planetary urbanization, whereas its multiple logics under unique institutional conditions expand the research framework of collaborative governance.
... The VRP Evaluation System According to field research and previous studies on village renewal elements [37][38][39], this paper constructs an evaluation system from the perspectives of geographic location, resource endowment, economic circumstance, and social condition. Among them, geographic location is further measured by location and transportation. ...
To promote the coordinated development of urban and rural areas, China has adopted a hybrid strategy of urbanization and rural village renewal. Due to the large development differences between villages, choosing appropriate strategies is significant for rural development. By introducing a new idea to promote urban–rural integration development through a “rural cluster”, this paper explores the comparative advantages of villages in urbanization and renewal, identifies the spatial interaction between villages, and proposes a rural cluster strategy based on the same characteristics and close relationships. Taking Laizhou city, a coastal county in eastern China, as the study area, it provides a new way to deal with village problems at a small scale but of a large number due to difficult development in China. The results indicated that some villages have both high or low rural urbanization suitability (RUS) and village renewal potential (VRP), which makes it difficult to choose development strategies. Compared with the VRP, the spatial interaction of villages in the RUS is closer, but fewer villages participated. The results of village clustering show that the scale of different village clusters and the degree of interaction between villages in Laizhou differ greatly, and village clusters across townships are very common. Since the driving forces of the different scale of rural groups vary, this paper suggests that the development direction and investment focus should be determined according to the scale and characteristics of individual rural groups.
... Ge et al. [43] Land use transformation should be an important feature of rural transformational development, as well as a basis for rural spatial governance. ...
... (1) Theoretical contributions Spatial governance is the new issue and hotspot in the current social study. Although some scholars have put forward relevant concepts and conducted preliminary exploration on the sustainable development of spatial governance in village and town communities [43,44], the construction of an evaluation index system and the assessment of spatial governance performance are rarely studied and explored. Relevant theoretical support and guidance are needed for the sustainable development of spatial governance in village and town communities. ...
In order to study the performance evaluation of spatial governance of village and town business communities, this paper establishes a five-dimensional system: industrial upgrading (I), environmental renovation (E), life quality (L), humanistic characteristics (H), and governance of society (G) based on the PSR (pressure–state–response) model. In the study, twelve village and town business communities of different types in the Anji County of China are selected as empirical cases; field research and information interviews are conducted in each sample community; the constructed project libraries and constructed ledgers in the past three years are adopted. The GIS 10.2 software is used to draw a policy fund distribution map for spatial governance, compare and study the core characteristics of financial investment for spatial governance in each sample community, and reveal how important the application of the evaluation system is for its performance analysis. The “precise strategies” and “driving foundations” of the spatial governance of village and town business communities are summarized.
... Villages, in particular, supply labor and land for urban expansion and industry development. The ecological and environmental issues are becoming more significant as a result of resource depletion and industrial decline, population loss, and industrial transition [43,44]. There is an increasing interest in how to assess the status of rural development, which is critical to long-term sustainable. ...
China is currently at a crucial stage of rural revival and transformation growth. Accurate measurement of rural development status is able to provide decision-making services for rural revitalization plan implementation. To address this issue, combining with effectiveness concepts and on the basis of the widely recognized “production–living–ecology” perspective of rural development in the world, this study proposes an innovative technical evaluating system for rural effectiveness. We constructed a rural effectiveness evaluation index system and measurement model, as well as a four-quadrant approach to identify the effectiveness of villages, selecting Xintai county, a typical resource-depleted city, for empirical analysis to verify the evaluation technical system. The results show that (1) 220 villages had comprehensive effectiveness, accounting for 27.8% of the total; the amount of effectiveness for villages in terms of the production, living, and ecological dimensions were 204, 229 and 195, respectively, and they clearly displayed heterogeneity in terms of spatial distribution. (2) The following are village effectiveness dominant types: the function dominates the comprehensive effectiveness. For each dimension, there is a functionally dominant type. (3) Bivariate Moran′s I analysis revealed the relationships’ internal effectiveness. In the same dimension, there was a conflict between efficiency and function. In each dimension, trade-offs were found between the production function, ecological function, living efficiency, as well as production efficiency, ecological function, and efficiency. Synergies were found among the production function and ecological efficiency. Living efficiency had synergies with production efficiency and ecological efficiency. This research enriched the theoretical approach of assessing rural development status and can help guide the rational conversion of village elements to achieve village transformation and sustainability development, as well as providing technical assistance for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.
... Our result is consistent with that of previous studies that suggests that considering land use transition in spatial planning is conducive to facilitating suburban spatial governance (Ge et al., 2020) and achieve SDGs (Vörösmarty et al., 2018). ESP was originally proposed in the urban context to facilitate landscape design and urban planning for conserving habitat and safeguarding important ecological networks (Yu, 1996;Waldheim, 2006). ...
Identifying key ecological nodes/corridors and priority restoration areas (KENPRA) is the key link for optimizing land use and ecological security patterns (ESPs). However, few studies have considered future land use/cover change (LUCC) and urban sprawl in identifying KENPRA for ESP maintenance. To optimize KENPRA, we took Quanjiao County, Anhui Province, China as a case study area, a typical unit for Chinese Land Spatial Planning and a suburb of Yangtze River Delta agglomeration challenging LUCC and ecological security pattern maintenance. A comprehensive framework for optimizing KENPRA has been established by integrating ESP and land use conflict (LUC) to adapt to land use change for corresponding urbanization processes. A CA-Markov model was used to predict future land use under different KENPRA-based scenarios in 2030. The results found that the total area of 4,357.2 ha priority restoration areas and 17 key ecological nodes was KENPRA, which were approximately 50% and concentrated in intensive LUC areas. The result of the simulation model showed that KENPRA-based scenarios integrating LUC indicated less urban expansion and better effectiveness for maintaining ESPs in 2030. The findings and proposed framework provide new and important information and implications for planners and policymakers to understand and improve land planning/policy; the results also can provide better understanding of the coupled human–nature system linking LUCC, ecosystem services, and land and restoration planning.
... The identification of urban and rural areas has experienced from the earliest qualitative division to quantitative division by using population size and density, employment index, the scope of urban built-up areas, and urban-rural boundaries, which focus on the physical form of urban and rural areas and have not considered the regional functions of urban and rural differentiation characteristics (Chakraborti et al., 2018;He et al., 2020;Zhong et al., 2018). This research gap is evidently observed in metropolitan areas experiencing a high degree of urbanization where rural areas are gradually showing the spatial characteristics of urban areas (Ge et al., 2020). Thus, identifying urban and rural areas only through a physical perspective can cause distortion, which necessitates further analysis to determine differences between urban and rural areas to ensure their accurate identification (Peng et al., 2018). ...
It is an important task for planners and decision makers to determine whether a certain region is urban or rural since the accurate identification of these areas is of considerable significance to further study differences in urbanization development and balance contradictions between them. However, at present, there are problems of low efficiency and considerable subjectivity in the identification of urban and rural areas based on nighttime light data. Therefore, this study proposes a new method to identify urban and rural areas based on the differences between them. Taking Guangzhou as an example, this study simulated food delivery scenarios to identify urban and rural areas in Guangzhou. The findings indicated that using food delivery data to identify urban and rural areas is highly precise, with an accuracy rate of 92.4% and Kappa value of 0.79. This study provides a new method to identify urban and rural areas accurately and objectively, contributes to the study of urban-rural differences in urbanization and providing a feasible method for subsequent urban and rural planning.
