Abstract
Achieving sustainable land use is one of the most important ways to achieve regional socio-economic sustainable development. We have collected 12 papers in this special issue “Sustainable Land Use in China” to show the varied application of sustainable land use studies and to provide meaningful decision-making information and policy implications for land use planners. We summarize the contributions to this special issue on sustainable land use and place them in perspective. Several studies focus on sustainable urban land use, some focus on sustainable rural land use, and others on environmental issues on land use. These studies have analyzed a broad array of topics related to land use, including the dynamic changes and driving forces of land use spatial patterns, sustainable land use, land use policy and optimization, and the environmental problems related to certain types of land use.
Highlights
Land use is widely understood as a manmade adjustment of the land surface and has a crucial role in shaping ecosystem functions [1]
This special issue has collected 12 papers concentrating on issues of “sustainable land use” in order to illustrate the main problems in the land use management process and analyze the dynamic change of land use and its driving force with the goals of raising land use efficiency, saving precious land resources, improving land environmental quality and accelerating the achievement of sustainable land use
The sustainable land use connotes the maximization of economic benefits and the maintenance and improvement of the surrounding ecology and environment in land use, which enables future generations to possess the same, or even better, land resource conditions as the current generation
Summary
Land use is widely understood as a manmade adjustment of the land surface and has a crucial role in shaping ecosystem functions [1]. An important pre-condition of achieving sustainable land use is to have an overall understanding of the main problems related to land use, the regional differences regarding land use and the driving forces of dynamic change of land use patterns [6]. This special issue has collected 12 papers concentrating on issues of “sustainable land use” in order to illustrate the main problems in the land use management process and analyze the dynamic change of land use and its driving force with the goals of raising land use efficiency, saving precious land resources, improving land environmental quality and accelerating the achievement of sustainable land use. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Sections 2–4 review the contribution and conclusions of the articles in this issue from the perspectives of sustainable use of urban land, sustainable use of rural land and main environmental issues in land use, respectively; Section 5 summarizes the relative advanced methodologies for analyzing land use issues; and Section 6 concludes with some suggestions for future studies
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