Abstract
Land use transition is a manifestation of land use and land cover change (LUCC) and is also a major research focus of the Global Land Project (GLP), as well as land system science (LSS) [...]
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Land use transition is a manifestation of land use and land cover change (LUCC) and is a major research focus of the Global Land Project (GLP), as well as land system science (LSS)
Research on land use transition has developed rapidly since Long introduced land use transition research into China in 2001 [2]. The launch of this special issue of Land including 26 papers accelerates the development of this process to some extent
The papers make important conceptual–theoretical and empirical contributions to the growing literature on land use transitions. The papers in this special issue focus on four major topics, i.e., farmland use management, rural restructuring and vitalization, ecological and environmental effects, and urban development
Summary
Land use transition is a manifestation of land use and land cover change (LUCC) and is a major research focus of the Global Land Project (GLP), as well as land system science (LSS). As China is emerging as a global economic superpower with a majority of 64% of the population representing the urban population, land use transitions during the rapid urbanization in China, with an urban–rural dualism, have received much more attention The aim of this Special Issue was to detect or examine the processes, patterns, and socioeconomic and environmental effects of land use transitions in China, the mechanism of human–land interactions against the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization from a wide range of perspectives (i.e., geographical, social–political, ecological, etc.), and the provision of solutions for sustainable land use based on scientific findings. In the review paper [3], the overall picture, development trends, key fields, and hot topics of land use transition research in the past two decades are systematically analyzed from a comprehensive perspective, with the aim to provide scientific support for sustainable land use and environmental management. This progress and prospect thinking can be used to help to analyze the issues regarding land use transitions and urban–rural development in China and its eco-environmental effects that arise in the other papers in this Special Issue, which are introduced below under four broad topics
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