Abstract
China has experienced a period of rapid economic growth during the past few decades especially in Shanghai. The rapid urbanization has caused great change for land use and cover change (LUCC), which is a prominent feature of global change. This paper focuses on land use history and the driving forces of LUCC in Shanghai from 1990 to 2010. We evaluated the LUCC of Shanghai based on three period Landsat images using the land use transition matrix model, the land use dynamic degree model, and the land use degree model. Then we analyzed the potential driving forces from different dimensions. The results show that the most obvious pattern of LUCC is the increase of built-up area and the decrease of arable land. The land use change dynamic from 2000 to 2010 is much greater than that from 1990 to 2010. The main driving forces of LUCC are human activity and social economic development.
Highlights
Land use and land cover change (LUCC), a prominent feature in the field of global change [1], is the direct effect on the natural environment provoked by human activities [2]
The National Research Committee (NRC) of America first pointed out the worldwide research framework of land use and cover change (LUCC) as early as 1990
This paper determined the classification system of land use in Shanghai city, which is composed of eight primary land use categories including arable land, forest, grassland, water area, urban and rural residential area, other build up area, intertidal area, and other
Summary
Land use and land cover change (LUCC), a prominent feature in the field of global change [1], is the direct effect on the natural environment provoked by human activities [2]. More than 45% of the Earth’s surface changed into other kinds of land use type due to human impact [3]. The society has experienced significant urbanization including a huge trend of human migration from the country to big cities, which has caused a great change of land use [7,8,9,10]. Skole at the University of Michigan mainly studied the driving force of LUCC, the land use’s effect on land cover, the temporal and spatial change of LUCC, and worldwide forecast model research on LUCC [13,14,15]
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