Simulation of the spatial pattern of land use change in China: the case of planned development scenario

Analysis of Urban Land Use Changes in Xingtai City from the Year 2000 to 2020 for Urban Development Planning

“…ASM Science Journal, Volume 19, 2024 2 b. regional scales are broken up into administrative jurisdictions, functional areas, and natural units. In which the administrative jurisdictions can be divided into three different directions, 1. national (Kuang et al, 2022;Sun et al, 2012;Ning et al, 2018), 2. provincial regions (Shi et al, 2020), and 3. prefecture-level cities (Wang et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2022a). Based on the division of functional areas, there are two distinct directions: urban agglomerations (Wang et al, 2021;Shan et al, 2020) and nature reserves (Xin et al, 2023).…”

Use of Geo-Information in Environmental Policy

“…Although, a number of potentially very interesting applications of geo-information for environmental policy-makers are described in literature (Schouten et al, 2013;Sun et al, 2012;Nasiri et al, 2012;Schirpke et al, 2013), few applications seem to be actually used in policy-making. Often, discussion or conclusions merely mention that the described application, or method could have great benefits for policy makers, but that this is in pilot or demonstration phase, or that a number of adjustments need to be made first (Schouten et al, 2013;Sun et al, 2012;Nasiri et al, 2012;Schirpke et al, 2013). Despite a significant increase in the use of spatial information in various domains in Society (car navigation, Google, Bing maps and augmented reality (e.g., www.layar.com)), it is difficult to understand why this is not yet common practice in environmental policy-making.…”