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Land use change and its socio-economic driving forces under stress of project in old reservoir area

Case study of linshui reservoir area of dahonghe reservoir in sichuan province

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The old reservoir areas built in 1950s–1970s left behind many socio-economic problems, because of the administrative backward migration and little migration fund, and all these problems would be tied to land. Based on interviewing with peasant households, combining land use survey and socio-economic statistical index, this paper analyzed land use change and its corresponding driving forces in Linshui reservoir area of Dahonghe Reservoir. Results showed that land use change in the reservoir area was mainly embodied on low-lying land submergence and migration requisition land. The former changed the land use patterns, and the latter mainly reconstructed original land property and made land over-fragmented. Cultivated land per capita was 0.041ha this area, below the cordon of cultivated land per capita enacted by FAO. Currently, there were still 30.25% of peasant households being short of grain in trimester of one year, and there were 35.27% of people living under the poverty line. The conditions of eco-environment in Linshui Reservoir Area were worse, and healthy and sub-healthy eco-environment accounted for less proportion, composed of green belt around the reservoir area and paddy field ecosystem, and economic forest and orchard ecosystem, respectively. The stress of the reservoir project was macroscopic background to analyze the driving factors of land use change, and real underlying diving factor of the land use change in the area was the change of cultural landscape under the stress of reservoir project. The rapid increase of population was the key factor to induce the change of man-land relationship in the reservoir area, the low level of rural economy was the crucial factor to decide how migrants input for production, and the belief of migrants, influencing the land use patterns in a certain extent, was the inducing factor to keep land use stable. The low-lying submergence and infrastructure construction accompanied the reservoir project were leading factors driving land use change in the area, while changes in land use patterns, after the reservoir being built, were the responses of peasant households’ behaviors to land use change.

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  1. College of Resource and Environment, Southwest University, 400716, Chongqing, P. R. China

    Shao Jing-an, Huang Xue-qin, Qu Ming, Wei Chao-fu & Xie De-ti

  2. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Digital Agriculture, 400716, Chongqing, P. R. China

    Qu Ming, Wei Chao-fu & Xie De-ti

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Foundation item: Under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 49771073) and Key Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. K2952-JI-203)

Biography: SHAO Jing-an (1976—), male, a native of Bozhou of Anhui Province, Ph.D., specialized in land use and eco-environmental evolution. E-mail: shaojinganswau@yahoo.com.cn

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Shao, Ja., Huang, Xq., Qu, M. et al. Land use change and its socio-economic driving forces under stress of project in old reservoir area. Chin. Geograph.Sc. 15, 315–324 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-005-0019-5

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