Assessment and influencing factors of regional cultural ecosystem in the farming pastoral ecotone in North China under the background of"shrinking":A case study in Damao Banner of Inner Mongolia
The farming pastoral ecotone in North China is not only an ecological fragile zone,but also a typical cultural ecological fragile zone.As a remote and underdeveloped spatial re-gion type,the small towns in the farming pastoral ecotone are subject to the impact of population loss and shrinking on the regional cultural ecosystem.By introducing the vulnerability analysis framework,taking Damao Banner of Inner Mongolia as an example,the quantitative assessment and spatial difference of cultural ecosystem vulnerability in the farming pastoral ecotone in North China were analyzed.And the influencing factors and mechanisms of the vulnerability was revealed.The results show that:(1)The regional cultural ecosystem in the case area has ob-vious vulnerability,which is jointly affected by the internal damaging factors and external dis-turbing factors.Among them,the decreasing number of folk artists and the decreasing scale of public cultural space,the drastic changes of social environment and the decline of the stability of geographical relations are important driving factors.In addition,the lack of local identity is also important.(2)The fragility of the cultural ecosystem of Damao Banner has the spatial character-istics of"high in the south and low in the north".The spatial characteristics of exposure are high-er in central towns and lower in peripheral towns,as well as higher in southern towns and lower in northern towns.From the perspective of resilience,the central towns are relatively strong than the peripheral area.The research is not only an attempt to analyze the changes of cultural ecosystem in the field of humanities,but also useful to explore the quantitative analysis method of cultural ecosystem vulnerability at the micro scale and enrich the research dimension of vul-nerability.Lastly,the research provides a basis for improving the adaptability and sustainable de-velopment of the regional cultural ecosystem in the farming pastoral ecotone in North China.
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