Human-environment interactions in China: Evidence of land-use change in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region
Yuheng Li and Qian Zhang
This paper aims to investigate human-environment interactions in the Chinese context
by studying land-use change in terms of agglomeration of human activities.
The research is based on theories showing that resource flows agglomerate differently
in the spatial dimension. The paper creates the urban-rural linkage index and decomposes
the study area into three parts: urban, peri-urban and periphery areas. Research findings
show that urban areas tend to experience faster arable land and built land change than
the peri-urban and periphery areas. The findings also indicate that in the Chinese context
of fast urbanization and economic growth, resource flows like people, capital, goods
and information tend to agglomerate in the urban areas, followed by the small towns
and medium cities, as well as the rural peripheries.
Yuheng Li and Qian Zhang
This paper aims to investigate human-environment interactions in the Chinese context
by studying land-use change in terms of agglomeration of human activities.
The research is based on theories showing that resource flows agglomerate differently
in the spatial dimension. The paper creates the urban-rural linkage index and decomposes
the study area into three parts: urban, peri-urban and periphery areas. Research findings
show that urban areas tend to experience faster arable land and built land change than
the peri-urban and periphery areas. The findings also indicate that in the Chinese context
of fast urbanization and economic growth, resource flows like people, capital, goods
and information tend to agglomerate in the urban areas, followed by the small towns
and medium cities, as well as the rural peripheries.
