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Improving service accessibility and equity for sustainable development goals without newly facilities by rural settlement reconstruction 通过农村居民点重建，在不新建设施的情况下，改善服务可及性和公平性，实现可持续发展目标

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2024.07.006

Caihui Cui , Zhigang Han , Feng Liu , Jingru Ma , Haiying Wang , Xiang Chen

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Declining suitability for conversion of drylands to paddy fields in Northeast China: Impact of future climate and socio-economic changes 中国东北地区旱地改水田的适宜性下降：未来气候和社会经济变化的影响

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2024.05.004

Jiacheng Qian , Huafu Zhao , Xiaoxiao Wang , Tao Wang , Zhe Feng , Congjie Cao , Xiao Li , Aihui Zhang

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Assessment of Chinese urban land-use efficiency (SDG11.3.1) utilizing high-precision urban built-up area data 基于高精度城市建成区数据的中国城市土地利用效率评价(SDG11.3.1

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2024.06.007

Hao Wang , Yafei Liu , Lianze Sun , Xiaogang Ning , Guangzhe Li

{"title":"Assessment of Chinese urban land-use efficiency (SDG11.3.1) utilizing high-precision urban built-up area data","authors":"Hao Wang , Yafei Liu , Lianze Sun , Xiaogang Ning , Guangzhe Li","doi":"10.1016/j.geosus.2024.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geosus.2024.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessment of SDG11.3.1 indicator of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a valuable tool for policymakers in urban planning. This study aims to enhance the accuracy of the SDG11.3.1 evaluation and explore the impact of varying precision levels in urban built-up area on the indicator’s assessment outcomes. We developed an algorithm to generate accurate urban built-up area data products based on China’s Geographical Condition Monitoring data with a 2 m resolution. The study evaluates urban land-use efficiency in China from 2015 to 2020 across different geographical units using both the research product and data derived from other studies utilizing medium and low-resolution imagery. The results indicate: (1) A significant improvement in the accuracy of our urban built-up area data, with the SDG11.3.1 evaluation results demonstrating a more precise reflection of spatiotemporal characteristics. The indicator shows a positive correlation with the accuracy level of the built-up area data; (2) From 2015 to 2020, Chinese prefecture-level cities have undergone faster urbanization in terms of land expansion relative to population growth, leading to less optimal land resource utilization. Only in extra-large cities does urban population growth show a relatively balanced pattern. However, urban population growth in other regions and cities of various sizes lags behind land urbanization. Notably, Northeast China and small to medium cities encounter significant challenges in urban population growth. The comprehensive framework developed for evaluating SDG11.3.1 with high-precision urban built-up area data can be adapted to different national regions, yielding more accurate SDG11.3.1 outcomes. Our urban area and built-up area data products provide crucial inputs for calculating at least four indicators related to SDG11.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52374,"journal":{"name":"Geography and Sustainability","volume":"6 1","pages":"Article 100210"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143139300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Targeted poverty alleviation promotes sustainable socio-economic and ecological development in China’s poor areas 定点扶贫促进中国贫困地区社会经济和生态可持续发展

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2024.04.007

Xunhuan Li , Yang Zhou

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Mapping and modelling impacts of tobacco farming on local higher plant diversity: A case study in Yunnan Province, China 烟草种植对当地高等植物多样性的影响：以云南省为例

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2024.06.009

Jiacheng Shao , Qingyu Zhang , Jinnan Wang

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Household farms facing barriers in indigenous knowledge-based adaptation to extreme climatic events — Evidence from the Huangshui Basin 家庭农场在以本土知识为基础的适应极端气候事件方面面临障碍——来自湟水盆地的证据

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2024.07.007

Hailin Zhang, Jinyan Zhan, Zheng Yang, Huihui Wang, Naikang Xu, Chunyue Bai, Yufei He, Yuhan Cao

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Evaluating the effectiveness of the Shan-Shui Initiatives in China 评估中国“山水计划”的有效性

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2025.100271

Yutong Jiang , Xinghao Shan , Qingyu Liu , Yu Feng , Yuyang Lai , Kaiji Xu , Jinman Wang , Zhongke Bai , Xiaoming Feng

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Non-negligible large impact of potential forestation on livestock production in China 中国潜在的造林对畜牧业生产的巨大影响不容忽视

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2025.100270

Changjiang Wu , Xiaoping Liu , Fengsong Pei , Kangyao Liu , Yaotong Cai , Xiaocong Xu , Haoming Zhuang , Yiling Cai , Bingjie Li

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Global urbanization indirectly ‘enhances’ the carbon sequestration capacity of urban vegetation 全球城市化间接“增强”了城市植被的固碳能力

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2025.100268

Jieming Kang , Baolei Zhang , Qian Zhang , Chunlin Li , Jun Ma , Jiabo Yin , Kailiang Yu , Yuanman Hu , Elie Bou-Zeid

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Land use changes and their effects on poverty in Inner Mongolia, northern China 内蒙古土地利用变化及其对贫困的影响

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Geography and Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2025.100269

Zhen Wu , Xianjin Huang , Xue Liu , Michael E. Meadows , Ruishan Chen , Long Li

{"title":"Land use changes and their effects on poverty in Inner Mongolia, northern China","authors":"Zhen Wu , Xianjin Huang , Xue Liu , Michael E. Meadows , Ruishan Chen , Long Li","doi":"10.1016/j.geosus.2025.100269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geosus.2025.100269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The effects of land use changes on poverty vary markedly among geographic regions. While Inner Mongolia has been experiencing significant land use changes during past decades, to date there has been no systematic research aimed at understanding how these land use changes affect poverty in the region. This study analyzes spatiotemporal patterns of land use changes in Inner Mongolia from 1980 to 2020 through the application of statistical methods including Correlation Analysis, Multiple Stepwise Regression Analysis, and Geographically Weighted Regression to understand how land use changes affect the distribution and dynamics of poverty. We show that five types of land use conversion explain 51 % of the variation in poverty levels. Conversions among cultivated land, grassland, and construction land are shown to have dominated the pattern of land use change in Inner Mongolia. From 2000 to 2020, 2,208 km<sup>2</sup> of grassland and 56 km<sup>2</sup> of water/wetland were converted to built-up land, and 32 km<sup>2</sup> of water/wetland was converted to woodland, these conversions promoted poverty reduction. Conversely, the conversion of existing cultivated land to grassland and its degradation to unused land (1,754 km<sup>2</sup> and 156 km<sup>2</sup>, respectively) has constrained progress in alleviating poverty in the region. Accordingly, further mitigation of poverty in Inner Mongolia can be obtained through interventions that conserve remaining cultivated land, while simultaneously facilitating urbanization. Maintaining the dynamic balance between economic growth and environmental protection is key to the development of policies that advance sustainability in this region. Moreover, the methodology used in this study has the potential to be applied to other regions of the world with similar environmental and socioeconomic conditions to support sustainable land use planning in the context of poverty reduction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52374,"journal":{"name":"Geography and Sustainability","volume":"6 4","pages":"Article 100269"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143863519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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