Abstract
In order to enhance the scientific understanding of the transition law of rural residential areas and enrich the theory and method system of land use transition research, this article takes Shandong Province as an example and constructs a comprehensive research framework of rural residential land scale, structure, and function from the perspective of the combination of the macro and micro scales based on differences between the rural residential areas in the region and the village scale forms. Using model quantitative analysis and horizontal comparative analysis methods, this paper explores the process characteristics of rural residential land use scale transition and the corresponding stage differentiation law of spatial structure and system function. Research has shown that the stage characteristics of the scale transition of rural residential land use in Shandong Province in the past 10 years are significant. The five transition stages—from the primary stage, low stage, intermediate stage, advanced stage, to the stable stage—show obvious spatial agglomeration and spatial autocorrelation, which are mainly driven by the positive and negative interactions of economic development, the policy environment, natural conditions, and population. With the gradual upgrading of the land use scale transition in rural residential areas, the spatial pattern of rural residential areas has been continuously optimized, the land use structure has tended to be balanced and complicated, and the living-production-ecological function as a whole has been strengthened. The essence of this type of differentiation is the differential performance of rural residential areas adapting their own conditions to the external environment. The transition of the rural residential area from the macro to the micro scale is also the process of realizing rural reconstruction and rural revitalization. In the future, under the framework of the “element–structure–function” system of rural residential areas, the rural transition and development should be continuously promoted through the support, organization, guidance, and promotion mechanisms of internal and external factors.
Highlights
Land use transition (LUT) is a new topic in the international frontier research of Land Change Science (LCS) [1]
As a highly important land use type that exists widely in rural areas, rural residential areas have been in a state of steady evolution since they emerged from the stable natural geographical environment and location conditions, with the influence of the natural increases and decreases in rural population and the slow growth of the rural economy
Based on the process of dimensionality reduction transmission from the macro pattern to the micro sample points, this paper used the index of scale transition, the landscape pattern, the diversity and concentration index, and the living-production-ecological function index to divide the transition stages of the rural residential land use scale and comparatively analyze the influential factors of typical areas and sample points
Summary
Land use transition (LUT) is a new topic in the international frontier research of Land Change Science (LCS) [1]. A large number of houses, horizontal and longitudinal roads, scattered factories, concentrated public service facilities, and natural or artificial vegetation green spaces are distributed, which reflects that the patches of rural residential areas contain various land types, buildings, facilities, industries, and other elements These elements provide the most basic living guarantee, necessary production conditions, and special ecological environments for rural residents in different combination forms, reflecting the element composition, structure organization, and functional value form of rural residential areas at the micro level. Rural public services and the quality of the human settlement environment, rural areas require increased education, medical care, transportation, leisure, ecology, and other basic service facilities, encouraging the structure of rural residential land to be balanced, while the corresponding living, production, and ecological functions are continuously optimized and improved. The transition of rural residential areas is a synchronous process of the decreasing of the land use scale, with a regular and compact spatial layout, balanced land use structure, and coordination of living-production-ecological function
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