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Optimization of Spatial Pattern of Land Use: Progress, Frontiers, and Prospects
Changchang Liu1, Chuxiong Deng1, Zhongwu Li1
1College of Geographic Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China.
Summary
Optimizing land use patterns is crucial for ecosystem restoration and sustainable development amid human disturbance and climate change. Research now focuses on ecological functions and human well-being, integrating landscape ecology for better land system management.
Area of Science:
- Environmental Science
- Ecology
- Sustainable Development
Background:
- High-intensity human disturbance and rapid climate change necessitate optimizing land use spatial patterns.
- Restoring ecosystem functions and sustainable human-land relationships are key goals.
- Current research paradigms have shifted from pattern description to ecological restoration and human well-being.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review research progress, frontiers, and challenges in land use spatial pattern optimization.
- To identify future research directions for sustainable land management.
- To propose a conceptual model integrating landscape ecology and ecosystem service flows.
Main Methods:
- Literature analysis.
- CiteSpace visualization software.
- Integration of landscape ecology and ecosystem service flow research.
Main Results:
- Research has evolved from pattern description to sustainable development and ecological restoration, shifting focus from pattern to function to well-being.
- Key research frontiers include spatial pattern-function unity, ecological mechanisms, simulation/prediction models, and adaptive management under climate change.
- A conceptual model ('element sets-network structure-system functions-human well-being') was developed.
Conclusions:
- Future research should focus on theoretical innovation, spatiotemporal mechanisms, causal emergence, transformation thresholds, and uncertainty.
- Proposed innovative ideas aim to improve land use spatial optimization adaptability.
- Enhanced land system resilience against ecological security and climate risks is expected.
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