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Characteristics and progress of land use/cover change research during 1990-2018
Received date: 2021-09-27
Accepted date: 2021-11-26
Online published: 2022-05-25
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation of China(41971270)
Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK0405)
Land use/cover change (LUCC) is the foundation and frontier for integrating multiple land surface processes. This paper aims to systematically review LUCC research from 1990 to 2018. Based on qualitative and quantitative analyses, we delineated the history of LUCC research and summarized their characteristics and major progress at different stages. We also identified the main challenges and proposed future directions for LUCC research. We found that the number of publications on LUCC research and their total citations grew exponentially. The research foci shifted from the process of LUCC during 1990-2004 to the impact of LUCC during 2005-2013 and then to the sustainability of LUCC from 2014 onwards. Currently, LUCC research is facing theoretical, methodological and practical challenges ranging from integrating the framework of sustainability science, adopting emerging technologies to supporting territorial spatial planning. To move forward, LUCC research should be closely integrated with landscape sustainability science and geodesign and take the leading role in territorial spatial planning to achieve the related Sustainable Development Goals.
Key words: land use/cover change; process; impact; sustainability; territorial spatial planning
HE Chunyang , ZHANG Jinxi , LIU Zhifeng , HUANG Qingxu . Characteristics and progress of land use/cover change research during 1990-2018[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2022 , 32(3) : 537 -559 . DOI: 10.1007/s11442-022-1960-2
Figure 2 Publications on and citations of LUCC researchNote: On 29 July 2019, we searched the Web of Science Core Collection Database and China National Knowledge Infrastructure Core Database for English and Chinese papers on LUCC research from 1990 to 2018. The search strategy of English papers was TS = (‘land use’ OR ‘land cover’) AND TS = (‘change’ OR ‘changes’) OR TS = (‘forest transition’ OR ‘agricultural land marginalization’), which yielded a total of 51,245 publications. The search strategy of Chinese papers was (SU= ‘land use’ OR SU= ‘land cover’) AND SU= ‘change’ OR (SU= ‘forest transition’ OR SU= ‘agricultural land marginalization’), which included a total of 9042 publications. |
Figure 3 Word clouds generated from LUCC papersNote: Based on the CiteSpace platform, we analyzed the word frequency of 51,245 English papers and 9042 Chinese papers and created word clouds through WordArt to visualize them. In each word cloud, the font size is proportional to the word frequency, and the colors are mainly used for distinguishing terms. |
Figure 4 Multidimensional analysis of high-frequency words in English and Chinese papers during the process phase from 1990 to 2004Note: We used the Bibliometrix and Biblioshiny packages in the R programming language for clustering high-frequency words with the clustering method of multiple corresponding analysis (MCA). |
Figure 5 The history of LUCC models |
Figure 6 Multidimensional analysis of high-frequency words in English and Chinese papers during the impact phase from 2005 to 2013 |
Figure 7 Multidimensional analysis of high-frequency words in English and Chinese papers during the sustainability phase from 2014 to 2018 |
Figure 8 LUCC and landscape sustainability |
Figure 10 LUCC and territorial spatial planning |
We would like to express our gratitude to Professor Peijun Shi and Professor Jianguo Wu for their inspiration and guidance in the writing process. We also thank the anonymous reviewers and editors for their insightful and critical comments, which have improved the quality of the manuscript.
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