to 2011 for all of China to analyse the changes in spatial clustering and inequality of overall cropland and of the …

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate …

The rapid growth of China’s economy since the reform in 1978 should be largely attributed to urbanization. Nonetheless …, in terms of farmland productivity, urbanization may lead to perverse incentives and thus threaten food security. On the … “superior occupation and inferior compensation”; on the other hand, urbanization promotes the transfer of the younger labor …

smaller-scale geographical regions. We, therefore, elucidate the complex interplay between economic development, urbanization … levels, and LU changes, drawing from extensive datasets concerning LU and economic activities in Shaanxi, China. This region … land and the process of urbanization, which stimulates regional economic growth, poses a considerable challenge to …