Pedosphere 11(3): 193--198, 2001
ISSN 1002-0160/CN 32-1315/P
©2001 Soil Science Society of China
Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press
Characteristics and process of land use changes in the Yangtze River Delta, China
PU Li-Jie1, YANG Gui-Shan2 and XU Meng-Jie1
1 Department of Geography, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 (China)
2 Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing B10008 (China)
ABSTRACT
      As one of the developing countries China has an arable land per capita far below the world's average level. With a high-density population and the quick development of economy and urbanization, the Yangtze River Delta shows the typical characteristics of land use in developed regions of China, which are: high land reclamation rate and low arable land per capita; intensive land use and high output value; and rapid increasing of construction land area and fast diminishing of arable lands. The analysis indicates that the process of the arable land changes in the Yangtze River Delta could be divided into four different change stages over the past 50 years.
Key Words:  arable land use, characteristics, change, process, the Yangtze River Delta
Citation: Pu, L. J., Yang, G. S. and Xu, M. J. 2001. Characteristics and process of land use changes in the Yangtze River Delta, China. Pedosphere. 11(3): 193-198.
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