eprintid: 10089349
rev_number: 18
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datestamp: 2020-01-28 12:21:22
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Xiao, Y
creators_name: Zhao, J
creators_name: Sun, S
creators_name: Guo, L
creators_name: Axmacher, J
creators_name: Sang, W
title: Sustainability Dynamics of Traditional Villages: A Case Study in Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, China
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
keywords: sustainability assessment; landscape pattern; ecosystem services; human disturbance
note: This article is an open access
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(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: Rapid urbanization has greatly changed traditional villages in rural areas of China. This paper aims to assess sustainability and obtain its spatio–temporal dynamics, analyze the cause of sustainability changing conditions, and offer suggestions on the sustainable development of traditional villages. We integrated human disturbances into a minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model based on land use, landscape patterns, and ecosystem service (ES) provision in order to evaluate the sustainability dynamics of traditional villages between 1995 and 2015 in the Qiannan Prefecture, China. The results showed that pronounced declines in sustainability were limited to the northern and eastern regions, where the degradation of forest ecosystems and the rapid increase in construction land have resulted in landscape fragmentation and ES decline. We suggest that scientific land use development plans and ecological restoration should be implemented to protect the ecosystem and improve the sustainability of traditional villages in Qiannan Prefecture.
date: 2020-01-01
publisher: MDPI AG
official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12010314
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1739945
doi: 10.3390/su12010314
lyricists_name: Axmacher, Jan
lyricists_id: JCAXM98
actors_name: Axmacher, Jan
actors_id: JCAXM98
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Sustainability
volume: 12
number: 1
article_number: 314
citation:        Xiao, Y;    Zhao, J;    Sun, S;    Guo, L;    Axmacher, J;    Sang, W;      (2020)    Sustainability Dynamics of Traditional Villages: A Case Study in Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, China.                   Sustainability , 12  (1)    , Article 314.  10.3390/su12010314 <https://doi.org/10.3390/su12010314>.       Green open access   
 
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