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Identification of Villages’ Development Types Using a Comprehensive Natural–Socioeconomic Framework

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  • Yaqiu Liu

    (College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China)

  • Jian Liu

    (College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China)

  • Can Guo

    (College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China)

  • Tingting Zhang

    (Shandong Tiancheng Land Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd., Jinan 250014, China)

  • Ailing Wang

    (College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China)

  • Xinyang Yu

    (College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China)

Abstract

The establishment of a comprehensive framework to identify village development types is crucial to formulate plans for rural development and promote rural revitalization. This study proposed a natural–socioeconomic framework to identify the types of villages based on field survey, statistical data, and multi-source remote sensing images. The framework was constructed by combining the two-dimensional natural suitability/restriction evaluation and the four-dimensional socioeconomic development level evaluation. Then, the modified multiplication-weighted summation method and the coupling coordination degree algorithm were employed to identify the villages’ development types. A total of 774 villages of the Laiyang County, eastern China were used as the study areas to examine the framework. The results demonstrated the following. (1) There were 243,318 and 151 villages with high, moderate, low natural suitability, and 62 villages with natural restrictions; and 158,366 and 250 villages with high, moderate, and low economic development level, respectively. The distribution characteristic of natural evaluation was “high in the southwest and low in the northeast”, and the socioeconomic development level was generally centered on the urban area, which presented a “high–medium–low” circle-layer distribution structure. (2) There were 247 villages with high-level coupling coordination, 464 villages with intermediate coupling coordination, 1 village with low-level coupling coordination, and 62 villages with disordered coupling. (3) Based on the coupling coordination evaluation results, villages in the study area were grouped into five types: urbanization development (31%), construction development (16%), agglomeration linkage development (27%), decrease and improvement development (18%), and relocation and integration development (8%). The framework of villages’ development types identification established in this study can enrich the theory of rural geography, and the applied research results can provide a basis for rural revitalization and development planning.

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  • Yaqiu Liu & Jian Liu & Can Guo & Tingting Zhang & Ailing Wang & Xinyang Yu, 2021. "Identification of Villages’ Development Types Using a Comprehensive Natural–Socioeconomic Framework," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(13), pages 1-20, June.
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