Journal of Ecology and Rural Environment ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 385-392.doi: 10.11934/j.issn.1673-4831.2018.05.001

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Quality Assessment and Spatial Differentiation of Rural Human Settlements in the Counties in Jianghuai Region of Anhui

GU Kang-kang1,2, LIU Xue-xia1   

  1. 1. School of Architecture & Planning, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230022, China;
    2. Research Center of Urbanization Development in Anhui Province, Hefei 230022, China
  • Received:2017-09-30 Online:2018-05-25 Published:2018-05-25

Abstract:

Rural development has become the key to promoting new urbanization and urban and rural integration, and improving rural human settlements is an important foundation for rural development. The environmental quality of rural human settlements in 6 municipal districts and 30 counties (county-level cities) in Jianghuai Region of Anhui Province was taken as the research object, a complete set of rural settlement construction evaluation index system has been set up, which consists of five subsystems, such as living conditions, economic development, infrastructure, public service and eco-environment, Using the Fully Arrayed Polygon Aggregate Index Method and Spatial Analysis Method to evaluate the quality of rural human settlements in counties of Jianghuai Region of Anhui Province, and to explore its spatial differentiation characteristics and its influencing factors. The results show that the spatial differences of rural human settlements' environmental quality in the Jianghuai Region of Anhui Province are significant, and the rural human settlements' environmental quality in the eastern region is higher than that in the western region. Meanwhile, The spatial aggregating feature are obvious. The quality of rural human settlements shows the high value agglomeration in the southeast region (Chaohu) and the low value agglomeration in the northwest region (Huainan and Lu'an). The quality of rural human settlements is affected by various factors such as natural environment, socio-economic development, regional culture and so on. Regional culture plays a relatively stable role in the quality of rural human settlements, while water resources, the population attractiveness and infrastructure have a significant impact on the quality of rural human settlements. Through the comprehensive quality analysis, the classification guidance of rural human settlements construction was proposed, which provided the basis for improving the quality of rural human settlements in Jianghuai Region of Anhui Province.

Key words: rural human settlements, quality evaluation, spatial autocorrelation analysis, spatial differentiation, Jianghuai Region of Anhui Province

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