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2024 , Vol. 5 >Issue 3: 100161

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsus.2024.100161

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What are the underlying causes and dynamics of land use conflicts in metropolitan junction areas? A case study of the central Chengdu- Chongqing region in China

  • TIAN Junfeng ,
  • WANG Binyan ,
  • QIU Cheng ,
  • WANG Shijun
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  • aSchool of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
    bSchool of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China
    cSchool of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130024, China
* E-mail address: wangby@cqu.edu.cn (WANG Binyan).

Received date: 2024-01-31

  Revised date: 2024-06-30

  Accepted date: 2024-08-22

  Online published: 2024-09-25

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Abstract

Land use conflicts (LUCs), as a spatial manifestation of the conflicts in the human-land relationships, have a profound impact on regional sustainable development. For China’s metropolitan junction areas (MJAs), the existence of “administrative district economies” has made the issue of LUCs more prominent. Based on a case study of the central Chengdu-Chongqing region, we conducted an exploratory spatial data analysis of the evolutionary process of regional LUCs. Furthermore, structural equation modeling was utilized to analyze the dynamic mechanism of LUCs in MJAs, with a particular emphasis on exploring the influences of administrative boundary. The results showed that from 2010 to 2020, LUCs in the central Chengdu-Chongqing region continued to worsen, and the spatial process conflict and spatial structure conflict indices increased by more than 30.0%. The intensification of LUCs in the central Chengdu-Chongqing region from 2010 to 2020 was mainly the result of the deterioration of conflicts in evaluation units with low conflict levels. LUCs in China’s metropolitan areas generally presented a circular gradient distribution, weakening from the core to the periphery, but there were some strong isolated conflict zones in the outer regions. LUCs in China’s MJAs were the result of interactions among multiple factors, e.g., natural environment, socio-economic development, policy and institutional processes, and administrative boundary effects. Administrative boundary affected the flow of socio-economic elements, changing the supply-and-demand competition of stakeholders for land resources, consequently exerting an indirect influence on LUCs. This study advances the theory of the dynamic mechanism of LUCs, and provides theoretical support for the governance of these conflicts in transboundary areas.

Key words： Land use conflicts; Urban agglomerations; Administrative boundary; Land resources; Structural equation modeling (SEM); Central Chengdu-Chongqing region

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TIAN Junfeng , WANG Binyan , QIU Cheng , WANG Shijun . What are the underlying causes and dynamics of land use conflicts in metropolitan junction areas? A case study of the central Chengdu- Chongqing region in China[J]. Regional Sustainability, 2024 , 5(3) : 100161 . DOI: 10.1016/j.regsus.2024.100161

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