Author
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- Guishan Cheng
(Southwest University
New Liberal Arts Laboratory of Sustainable Development in Rural Western China)
- Haojian Dou
(Southwest University
New Liberal Arts Laboratory of Sustainable Development in Rural Western China)
- Shuang Xu
(Southwest University
New Liberal Arts Laboratory of Sustainable Development in Rural Western China)
- Ruilian Dai
(Southwest University
New Liberal Arts Laboratory of Sustainable Development in Rural Western China)
- Xin Liang
(Southwest University
New Liberal Arts Laboratory of Sustainable Development in Rural Western China)
- Yuhang Huang
(Southwest University
New Liberal Arts Laboratory of Sustainable Development in Rural Western China)
- Xinyue Wu
(Southwest University
New Liberal Arts Laboratory of Sustainable Development in Rural Western China)
- Jia Zhang
(Southwest University
New Liberal Arts Laboratory of Sustainable Development in Rural Western China)
- Cheng Wang
(Southwest University
New Liberal Arts Laboratory of Sustainable Development in Rural Western China
Innovation Center of Non-Public Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation in Western China)
Abstract
China's victory over poverty is globally felt, significantly contributing to global poverty reduction. China has comprehensively promoted implementation the great project of improving rural human settlement environment, which has completely changed the poor environment in rural areas. From getting rid of the dirty and messy to pursuing the beauty of the countryside, improving the Chinese rural human settlement environment has achieved remarkable results. On the basis of clarifying the connotation of rural human settlement environment improvement and combing the development context of rural human settlement environment in China, this paper constructs an evaluation index system of rural human settlement environment quality, and uses the coefficient of variation method and the weighted summation method to analyze the spatial and temporal characteristics of rural human settlement environment quality in 31 provinces of China, and carries out type identification, and designs differentiated improvement strategies. The results showed that: (1) the environmental quality of Chinese rural people is increasing year by year, which can be divided into three stages: slow growth stage, fast growth stage and high growth stage. The growth rate is closely related to the strength of the national policy guidance; (2) there are significant regional differences in the level of rural human settlement environment in China, showing a spatial pattern of "high in the east and low in the west" on the whole, and the development level of each subsystem shows an upward trend with a large increase, which is basically consistent with the distribution trend of China's economic development level. (3) According to the development level of rural human settlement environment quality, it can be divided into lagged type, single system leading type, compound system leading type and comprehensive type, and combined with the type characteristics to promote the rural human settlement environment remediation. The research results provide directional guidance for the cause of rural human settlement environment, and provide China's experience for the world's rural human settlement environment cause, and play a model role.
Suggested Citation
Guishan Cheng & Haojian Dou & Shuang Xu & Ruilian Dai & Xin Liang & Yuhang Huang & Xinyue Wu & Jia Zhang & Cheng Wang, 2025.
"Rural human settlement environment improvement: process, status and China’s sample,"
Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 27(8), pages 17805-17832, August.
Handle:
RePEc:spr:endesu:v:27:y:2025:i:8:d:10.1007_s10668-024-04686-3
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-024-04686-3
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