TY - JOUR
T1 - Research on land use optimization for reducing wind erosion in sandy desertified area
T2 - a case study of Yuyang County in Mu Us Desert, China
AU - Yue, Yaojie
AU - Ye, Xinyue
AU - Zou, Xueyong
AU - Wang, Jing ai
AU - Gao, Lu
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41271286), the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB955403), and Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (No. 13JJD790008). We would like to thank professor Peijun Shi for his valuable suggestions for improving the study. Thanks should also be given to the anonymous reviewers and editor for their comments to improve the quality of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - Desertification land occupies vast area of world, which is a big threat to eco-environmental safety and brings huge economic losses. Wind erosion is a key process and ecological problem of land desertification in arid and semi-arid area, where unreasonable land use is one of major causes. Therefore, optimizing land use is a substantially effective approach to eco-environmental safety and development of sandy area. Yuyang County, located in Mu Us Desert of semi-arid sandy area and farming-pastoral zone in North China, was selected as a typical study area. The principles and methods on environmentally friendly land use planning surrounding urban area for combating soil wind erosion were constructed, and a “tri-circle” land use paradigm around Yulin City was worked out. It was predicted that by the year of 2020, farmland will be only 10 percent of total area of Yuyang County, which are able to meet the need of food and meat. The proportion of ecological land, productive land and living land would be 2.27:12.09:85.64, which will lead to a reasonable land use system for ecological security and social-economic sustainable development of the region. It shows that this research will help construct the sustainable land use system under ecological security, and ensure habitat environmental safety in urban area.
AB - Desertification land occupies vast area of world, which is a big threat to eco-environmental safety and brings huge economic losses. Wind erosion is a key process and ecological problem of land desertification in arid and semi-arid area, where unreasonable land use is one of major causes. Therefore, optimizing land use is a substantially effective approach to eco-environmental safety and development of sandy area. Yuyang County, located in Mu Us Desert of semi-arid sandy area and farming-pastoral zone in North China, was selected as a typical study area. The principles and methods on environmentally friendly land use planning surrounding urban area for combating soil wind erosion were constructed, and a “tri-circle” land use paradigm around Yulin City was worked out. It was predicted that by the year of 2020, farmland will be only 10 percent of total area of Yuyang County, which are able to meet the need of food and meat. The proportion of ecological land, productive land and living land would be 2.27:12.09:85.64, which will lead to a reasonable land use system for ecological security and social-economic sustainable development of the region. It shows that this research will help construct the sustainable land use system under ecological security, and ensure habitat environmental safety in urban area.
KW - Environmentally friendly land use planning
KW - Mu Us Desert
KW - Sandy desertified area
KW - Wind erosion
KW - Yuyang County
KW - “Tri-circle” paradigm
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U2 - 10.1007/s00477-016-1223-9
DO - 10.1007/s00477-016-1223-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958241383
SN - 1436-3240
VL - 31
SP - 1371
EP - 1387
JO - Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
JF - Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
IS - 6
ER -