Dynamic Land Use and Socioeconomic-Environmental Interaction Patterns: Bridging Sustainability and Development

At present, the rapid urbanization and industrialization process has promoted land use change, which has also triggered various positive or negative ecological and socioeconomic effects. The long-term economic benefit orientation and biased performance evaluation mechanism in the past have led to a greater emphasis on the transformation of explicit forms of land use in the process of land use change, neglecting the transformation of implicit forms of land use, and also neglecting the calculation of ecological environmental costs associated with social and economic output of land use. A series of researchers have proven that the current development model sacrifices the environment for economic growth, bringing serious consequences for sustainable development. And, these phenomena are particularly severe in developing regions, such as China, India, and Brazil. In China, due to the forest and wetland loss for urban expansion, the flood disaster and fugitive dust have become more frequent in recent years. In parts of India, more than 70% of farmers rely on groundwater irrigation, resulting in an annual decrease of 0.8 m in groundwater level. As for Brazil, a considerable amount of tropical rainforest has been cut down for planting soybeans, sacrificing the regional biodiversity. Therefore, facing the dual pressures of environmental protection and economic development, it is urgent to incorporate environmental costs into the land economic output accounting system, and explore effective models for coordinating regional environmental protection and economic development through land use change regulation.

This research topic aims to gather empirical research on the interaction and influence between socioeconomic and ecological environments related to land use change in developing countries, seeking to coordinate the environmental optimization development of socioeconomic development through land use change regulation. We welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Spatiotemporal characteristics, dynamic mechanisms and scenario modelling of land use change, especially in resource-exhausted and rural-urban gradient areas.

• Coupled analysis of the socioeconomic and environmental effects of land use change in the context of urbanization.

• Environmental adaptation in the process of human-land relationship and its significance for sustainable development.

• Multi-level detection and multi-objective optimization of land use conflicts, with particular emphasis placed on productivity, sustainability, and livability.

• Theoretical framework and technological approaches specifically designed to enhance the understanding, management, and support of sustainable land use

Keywords: Land use, Trade-off between socioeconomic and environmental effects, Sustainable development, Carbon sequestration and emission, Food security

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