Title: Dynamic variation assessment and improvement strategies of urban agricultural sustainable development in Beijing at the county level
Abstract: Since the mid-20 th century, urban agriculture has attracted more and more attention in the international society arising from the widened acceptance and deepened understanding to the concept of co-existence and co-development between agriculture and urbanization. In China, developing urban agriculture has become one of the critical measures of central government to promote agricultural modernization, increase living level of peasants and to minimize the distance between urban and rural areas. Taking the urban agriculture in Beijing as the research object, this thesis analyzes the co-development and mutual influences among effect factors by combining chorological curve method and dimensional differentiation method. From the perspectives of sustainable urban agriculture, this thesis raises reasonable improvement proposals according to the specific regional characters for the scientific urban agricultural development in Beijing.Based on the statistic data of Beijing suburbs in the period from 2004 to 2011, this thesis has selected DSR as research framework which can meet the needs for decision making and can provide sufficient data in parallel in order to evaluate and analyze the chorological and dimensional characters and changes of sustainable development of urban agriculture. Specifically, the research has covered 8 districts and 2 counties of Beijing which are the focused development areas for urban agriculture with good natural conditions for agricultural development of being high qualitative, highly dense and highly efficient. From development indexes of urban agriculture in Beijing suburbs, 9 districts/counties have improved except for Fangshan county.However, much difference exists among these districts/counties where plain areas has developed faster than mountainous areas, and north mountainous area achieved more development than west mountainous area.Relevant studies have shown that the natural conditions and foundation of resources and environment are still a critical bottleneck of urban agricultural development in Beijing. Besides, urbanization and industrialization bring dual impacts to the agricultural development, and urban agriculture is extremely sensitive in the event of any changes of micro economic environment in Beijing. Based on the research, this thesis raises the strategies and proposals for urban agricultural development in Beijing, e.g., to promote more space for urban agricultural development via taking full advantages of local resources, to improve the products hierarchy in urban agriculture when meeting the market demands arising from urban development, to innovate urban agricultural service systems while keeping in line with the economic development, and to strengthen the role model influences of urban agriculture by exploiting the potential of micro policy controlling.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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