Driving Forces of Landscape Fragmentation due to Urban Transportation Networks: Lessons from Fujian, China
Publication: Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 142, Issue 2
Abstract
The study of landscape fragmentation offers promising approaches for better understanding how the interaction between natural conditions and socioeconomic factors generates environmental changes. In this paper, the state of landscape fragmentation due to urban-transportation networks in Fujian Province, China, was calculated on different spatial scales, using effective mesh size as an index for fragmentation degree. The relationship between fragmentation degree and regional socioeconomic development was explored to detect how socioeconomic processes, such as urbanization or industrialization, affect landscape change. The results demonstrated that even more than population increase, economic growth has a more significant impact on landscape. Growth from all three sectors (agriculture, industry, and service) can significantly accelerate the process of landscape fragmentation, and those from industry and service are the recent actual drivers leading to a fragmented landscape in China. The results also suggest that the widespread influences of urbanization on landscape do not always need to be negative, as is the widely accepted notion, and this realization might be helpful in slowing down the speed of landscape fragmentation on a regional scale. Based on this knowledge, the significances of this work for urban planners and policymakers are discussed.
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 40971111 and 41371192, the Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Fujian under Grant 2011J01280, and the Provincial Science and Technology Plan Projects of Fujian under Grant 2014R0099.
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Received: Oct 21, 2014
Accepted: Apr 22, 2015
Published online: Aug 12, 2015
Discussion open until: Jan 12, 2016
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