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03 March 2025

Harmony between Humanity and Nature in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration during Decadal Development

Building harmony between humanity and nature (HHN) migrates the conflict between social-economic development and eco-environmental conservation, promoting the coordination and balance between economic development and ecological protection, and then achieving the state of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature. Here, taking advantage of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration as the research region, this study aimed to evaluate the changes in comprehensive level of economic, social, and ecological development, as well as the coupling coordination degree of HHN from 2014 to 2021, and to identify their spatio-temporal evolution patterns. The findings reveal that from 2014 to 2021, the comprehensive development level of HHN in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration exhibits a linearly increasing pattern, with significant differences in time and space. The comprehensive development level of HHN in the northern region of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration has always been higher than that in the southern region. By 2021, all the cities had basically reached a middle development level. And the coordination degree of the comprehensive development of HHN showed a healthy development trend. In 2021, the coordination degree of HHN in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration was at transitional development, with an average annual increase of 3%. In the future, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration should prioritize coordinated development of HHN, enhance eco-environment protection and management, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, explore new development modes and ecological resource transformation strategies, and establish a modern capital region characterized by high-level ecological civilization development.

Keywords: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration; Ecological civilization; Harmony between humanity and nature; Coordination; Spatio-temporal evolution
Ecol. Civiliz.
2025,
2
(2), 10003; 
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14 June 2023

Spatio-temporal Evolution and Influencing Factors of Farmland Circulation Price at the County Level in China

Farmland circulation is an important way to achieve moderate scale operation to ensure food security. Based on the spatial analysis and spatial econometric model, this paper studies the spatial-temporal evolution and influencing factors of cultivated land transfer price at the county level in China from 2015 to 2020. The results revealed the following: (1) the circulation price of farmland generally shows paddy field > irrigated land > dry land > other cultivated land. The farmland circulation price in Huang-Huai-Hai Plain is always the highest, whereas that in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is always the lowest. (2) The spatial pattern of farmland circulation price is high in the south and low in the north, presenting an inverted U-shaped structure from east to west in 2015, and high in the east and low in the west, presenting an inverted U-shaped structure from north to south in 2020. Moreover, the spatial agglomeration was enhanced. (3) With the development of land market and urbanization, the restriction of natural factors of cultivated land on the farmland circulation price weakens, while the socio-economic attribute of cultivated land constantly strengthens. Based on the results, this paper puts forward some suggestions to prevent the overcapitalization of land.

Keywords: Farmland circulation price; Spatio-temporal evolution; Influencing factors; Land factor market; China
Rural Reg. Dev.
2023,
1
(1), 10003; 
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