Adjusting and Controlling Land Use Transitions

Abstract

Land use transition is a two-edged sword for regional sustainability. Recently, there has been an increasing trend emphasizing land resource in formulating regional development policy and affecting rural sustainability. Optimal allocation and efficient management of land resource are favor of rural restructuring. As such, it is pivotal to establish a theoretical framework in order to develop land management policy that can promote future land use transitions capable of meeting multiple goals and satisfying demands from various stakeholders by incorporating abroad spectrum of disciplines. This chapter probes the mechanism of mutual feedback between land use transitions and land management based on a three-fold framework of natural system-economic system-managerial system, and to illustrate the mutual feedback based on the practices of land use management in China. Then, the influential mechanism of urban-rural integrated development promoted by adjusting and controlling land use transitions was analyzed. The direction of urban-rural integrated development affected by land use transitions lies on the urban-rural distribution of land incremental value. Under the background of rapid urban-rural transformation development in China, the recessive land use morphology and its changes are the key points of land use transitions and land management. Adjusting the changes of recessive land use morphology can be taken as an efficient way to innovate land management policies and institutions in China, also a way to promote land management mode changes from the one-dimensional quantity management to the multi-dimensional quantity-quality-ecology management as well as from the one-dimensional resources management to the multi-dimensional resources-assets-capital management.