eprintid: 10089349 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/08/93/49 datestamp: 2020-01-28 12:21:22 lastmod: 2021-10-09 23:10:31 status_changed: 2020-01-28 12:21:22 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 article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089349/1/sustainability-12-00314.pdf