Title: The Driving Mechanism Analysis of Land Use Change of Taihang Mountain Area in Hebei
Abstract: Taking Taihang mountain area in Hebei as example, taking social economy factors into consideration, this paper will have a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the driving forces of land use change. Firstly, from the remote sensing image in 1987 and 2000, we extract the land cover information and analyze the change of land cover types on the quantity, speed and degree. Secondly, based on the database of the land use structure and social economy data, by establishing the index system of social economy driving forces to have correlation analysis and principal components analysis, we have a quantitative research on the driving forces of land use change. Finally, we show the social economic driving mechanism on population, economy, technology and macro-strategy.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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