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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Sustainability Dynamics of Traditional Villages: A Case Study in Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su12010314 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su12010314 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 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/). |
| Keywords: | sustainability assessment; landscape pattern; ecosystem services; human disturbance |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089349 |
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