Optimization of County-Level Land Resource Allocation through the Improvement of Allocation Efficiency from the Perspective of Sustainable Development.

Lijing Tang,Dongyan Wang

doi:10.3390/ijerph15122638

Abstract

Land resources provide stable support for economic development in China. However, due to the scarcity of land, the contradiction between agricultural land protection and construction land expansion is prominent. Under such circumstances, optimal allocation of land resources between agricultural and nonagricultural uses is vitally important. In view of the fact that land resources are indispensable inputs for production activities in agricultural and nonagricultural sectors, reducing the efficiency loss of land resource allocation between agricultural and nonagricultural uses is the only way to optimize the process. Counties are the basic administrative units in China, and their improvement of allocation efficiency will help optimize nationwide land resource allocation. This paper constructs models for estimating county-level land resource allocation efficiency from the perspective of sustainable development and searches for countermeasures to improve allocation efficiency. W County is used as an example to demonstrate how to choose these targeted countermeasures. It is concluded that the best way to optimize county-level land resource allocation between agricultural and nonagricultural uses can be found by estimating allocation efficiency from the perspective of sustainable development.

Highlights

Land resources are indispensable inputs in socioeconomic production activities, and land resource allocation between agricultural and nonagricultural sectors is always an important issue in the economic development of a society
It is concluded that the best way to optimize county-level land resource allocation between agricultural and nonagricultural uses can be found by estimating allocation efficiency from the perspective of sustainable development
Compared with the optimal allocation of agricultural land and the quantity of agricultural land that must be maintained, we can see that the allocation of land resources in W County belongs to the fourth situation in which land resource allocation does not reach the Pareto optimality state due to excessive allocation of agricultural land

Summary

Introduction

Land resources are indispensable inputs in socioeconomic production activities, and land resource allocation between agricultural and nonagricultural sectors is always an important issue in the economic development of a society. Due to China’s program of economic reforms ( known as “reform and opening-up”), along with China’s rapid economic growth, land resources provide stable support for the rapid development of economies in China. The scarcity of land resource supply leads to the increasingly tense competition for land resources between agricultural and nonagricultural sectors and an increasingly prominent contradiction between agricultural land protection and construction land expansion [2]. Construction land is an important agent of regional economic development, and especially with the rapid development of China’s urbanization and industrialization, regional development must be supported by a certain scale of construction land. Agricultural land is important to ensure food security and ecological security

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