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2020
Volume: 30 Issue 7
10 Article(s)

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Development of land use transitions research in China
Hualou LONG, Yi QU, Shuangshuang TU, Yingnan ZHANG, and Yanfeng JIANG
With the introduction of the concept of land use transition into China, related researches have been carried out extensively in the past two decades, which enrich the knowledge of land system science. This paper describes the development of research on land use transitions in China from the perspectives of conceptual c
Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Publication Date: Jul. 25, 2020
  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1195 (2020)
A review of China’s Urban Agglomerations
Haimeng LIU
Since the 1980s, China has been developing rapidly and has gradually become a global manufacturer. During this period, industry and population began to concentrate in Beijing, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and other regions of China. In these regions, more urban agglomerations have started forming and growing

Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Publication Date: Jul. 25, 2020
  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1215 (2020)
Research Articles
Urbanization and eco-environment coupling circle theory and coupler regulation
Chuanglin FANG, Xuegang CUI, Xiangzheng DENG, and Longwu LIANG
A near-distance, nonlinear coupling relationship objectively exists between urbanization and the eco-environment. The issue of how to coordinate the relationship between them has become a global strategic and scientific issue. This study reveals the nature, relationship and intensity of coupling between urbanization an
Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Publication Date: Jul. 25, 2020
  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1043 (2020)
Mega-towns in China: Their spatial distribution features and growth mechanisms
Xueqin WANG, Shenghe LIU, and Wei QI
As a special outcome of urbanization, mega-towns not only play an important role in the process of socio-economic development, but also are important contributors to urbanization. Based on a spatial database of mega-towns in China, this paper explores the spatial distribution features and growth mechanisms of China’s 2
Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Publication Date: Jul. 25, 2020
  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1060 (2020)
Evaluating the reliability of global historical land use scenarios for forest data in China
Fan YANG, Fanneng HE, Meijiao LI, and Shicheng LI
Global historical land use scenarios are widely used to simulate the climatic and ecological effects of changes in land cover; however, reliability evaluation of these scenarios for data on China’s forests is missing. By using a historical document-derived Chinese forest dataset (CHFD) for the years 1700-2000, we evalu
Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Publication Date: Jul. 25, 2020
  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1083 (2020)
Ecosystem service valuation of bays in East China Sea and its response to sea reclamation activities
Ruiqing LIU, Hao XU, Jialin LI, Ruiliang PU, Chao SUN, Luodan CAO, Yimei JIANG, Peng TIAN, Lijia WANG, and Hongbo GONG
Ecosystem service values (ESVs) of bays and their response to sea reclamation are of great practical importance for forming bay eco-compensation policy and extension of blue economic space. Based on land use information of bays collected during the period of 1990-2015, the spatiotemporal evolution of ESVs of 12 main ba
Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Publication Date: Jul. 25, 2020
  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1095 (2020)
Regional eco-efficiency evaluation and spatial pattern analysis of the Yangtze River Economic Zone
Lin HA, Jianjun TU, Jianping YANG, Chunhai XU, Jiaxing PANG, Debin LU, Zuolin YAO, and Wenyu ZHAO
The environmental ecology of the Yangtze River Economic Zone (YREZ) faces ecological function decline, deterioration and degradation under intense human activities, long-term development and utilization and its economy has developed rapidly over recent decades. Eco-efficiency is considered as a measure of coordinated d
Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Publication Date: Jul. 25, 2020
  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1117 (2020)
Spatio-temporal analysis of the human footprint in the Hengduan Mountain region: Assessing the effectiveness of nature reserves in reducing human impacts
Le YIN, Erfu DAI, Du ZHENG, Yahui WANG, Liang MA, and Miao TONG
Mapping the human footprint (HF) makes it possible to quantify human influence, which has had an unprecedented impact on the global ecosystem. Using five categories of human pressure data, this study mapped the HF of the Hengduan Mountain region and assessed the effectiveness of nature reserves in reducing human impact
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  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1140 (2020)
Space diversification process and evolution mechanism of typical village in the suburbs of Guangzhou: A case study of Beicun
Ren YANG, Yuxin PAN, and Qian XU
The reform of global production mode and social system accelerate the process of urbanization, and the urban-rural factors accelerate rural space diversification. Based on the space production theory and game theory, this paper analyzed the space diversification process and its influence on Beicun village. The results
Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Publication Date: Jul. 25, 2020
  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1155 (2020)
Beach morphodynamic characteristics and classifications on the straight coastal sectors in the west Guangdong
Yuanting DING, Jitao YU, and Huangxin CHENG
Currently beach morphodynamic classification is the most important foundation to conduct associated coastal geomorphological studies. This paper carried out beach morphodynamic classifications for 12 straight beaches on headland-bay coasts based on field survey and evaluated the applicability of the most widely used di
Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Publication Date: Jul. 25, 2020
  • Vol. 30, Issue 7, 1179 (2020)