Effects of rural–urban migration on agricultural transformation: A case of Yucheng City, China

Effects of land use transitions and rural aging on agricultural production in China’s farming area: A perspective from changing labor employing quantity in the planting industry

Coupling analysis of greenhouse-led farmland transition and rural transformation development in China's traditional farming area: a case of Qingzhou City.

How does off-farm work affect chemical fertilizer application? Evidence from China’s mountainous and plain areas

Land system science has developed over the past decades. Land provides essential resources to the society, and its changes have large consequences for the local environment and human well-being. Land use change demonstrates non-linear process and is related to other societal and biophysical disturbances through a series of transitions. This chapter aims to theorize land use transitions and construct a theoretical foundation of this book. With the in-depth research of land use transitions, the concept and connotations of land use morphology were further developed and expanded as two kinds, i.e., dominant morphology and recessive morphology. The dominant morphology refers to the land use structure of a certain region over a certain period of time, with features such as the quantity and spatial pattern of land use types. While the recessive morphology includes the land use features in the aspects of quality, property rights, management mode, input, output and function. Accordingly, the concept of land use transition is further developed, and the theoretical model of regional land use transitions is established. Thereafter, three innovative integrated approaches to study land use transitions are put forward, i.e., multidisciplinary research framework, horizontal comparison research method, and transect research method. With the introduction of land use transition research into China by the author, related researches concerning farmland transition, rural housing land transition and their relationships with rural restructuring under the context of urbanization, industrialization and rural vitalization in China have been carried out extensively, which enrich the knowledge of land system science.

Judith Bouniol

Papers

How rural out-migrations drive changes to farm and land management: A case study from the rural Andes