Sustainable Village Planning Indicator System in Rural Transformation: Application to Xufu Village in the Yangtze River Delta Region in China
Publication: Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 147, Issue 4
Abstract
Owing to the influence of urbanization and globalization, many villages in China are transforming from traditional agricultural villages into postproductive villages. Changes in the industrial structures of these villages have caused corresponding environmental problems, which restrict rural sustainable development. Village planning is an important public policy instrument that is used to guide and regulate the construction and governance of villages and, therefore, it is an important tool to realize sustainable development in rural areas. Based on the problems that are experienced by these villages and the goal of rural sustainable development, this paper will use the village planning compilation as the framework, the Delphi method, and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to construct an operable and evaluable planning indicator system and uses Xufu village, which is a typical postproductive village in the Yangtze River Delta, China as an example for the analysis. The case study has proven that the indicator system has guiding significance for the compilation of village sustainable development planning, and the relative evaluation method objectively reflected the sustainable development trend of villages before and after the compilation and implementation of planning. This paper will create a tool for the quantitative evaluation of the compilation and implementation of village planning. The results could provide a reference for planning and developing strategies for sustainable village development.
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Science and Technology Planning Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant No. 2015BAL02B00), the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Grant No. LQ19E080010), and the Humanities and Social Science Project of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 19YJC760122).
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