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 …