Literature Analysis on Land Consolidation Research in China Literature Analysis on Land Consolidation Research in China
The purpose of the paper is to explore the current situation, research scales and hot topics on land consolidation based on relevant papers that were gained from China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI)and ISI Web of Science during the period of 1985-2015, and to explore the trend of research on land consolidation, in order to promote the development of land consolidation. Methods employed are documentary analysis, comparative analysis and comprehensive induction. The results indicate: 1)Numbers of Chinese literature on land consolidation in the latest 30 years rose up at first and went down later. 2)Almost all of the research scales of land consolidation were the administrative basis while the natural-scale and multi-scale research were rare. 3)Current land consolidation research in China is still in the exploratory stage, and the perfect theory system of consolidation is still under establishing. 4)There are 4 hot topics on land consolidation. ①Study on the quantity and quality of newly developed cultivated land. Enlarging the area of arable land and improving cultivated land quality are the basic requirements of land <br> The purpose of the paper is to explore the current situation, research scales and hot topics on land consolidation based on relevant papers that were gained from China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI)and ISI Web of Science during the period of 1985-2015, and to explore the trend of research on land consolidation, in order to promote the development of land consolidation. Methods employed are documentary analysis, comparative analysis and comprehensive induction. The results indicate: 1)Numbers of Chinese literature on land consolidation in the latest 30 years rose up at first and went down later. 2)Almost all of the research scales of land consolidation were the administrative basis while the natural-scale and multi-scale research were rare. 3)Current land consolidation research in China is still in the exploratory stage, and the perfect theory system of consolidation is still under establishing. 4)There are 4 hot topics on land consolidation. ①Study on the quantity and quality of newly developed cultivated land. Enlarging the area of arable land and improving cultivated land quality are the basic requirements of land <br> consolidation. Exploring land consolidation potential and the impact of land consolidation on grain productivity and food security are the cores of the quantity and quality study on newly developed cultivated land.②The impact of land consolidation on regional ecology and environment. Current research focused on land consolidation’s effect on soil, biodiversity and ecosystem services. ③Land consolidation and new rural construction. Lots of previous researches have investigated the relationship between land consolidation and new rural construction, exploring the interactive coupling mechanism of them.④The benefit assessment of land consolidation. Currently the temporal-scale of benefit assessment applied is quite limited, and what we need in the benefit assessment of land consolidation is the long-term and large-scale observation. It is concluded that study on land consolidation has made significant progress in China, but there are still many shortcomings. The following aspects still need further attention in the future: 1)Attaching importance to the research on essential connotation and core objectives of land consolidation. 2)Paying attention to the research of quantity and quality of land remediation and the research of ecological potential, grain productivity and food security. 3)Deepening the study on impact of land consolidation on ecological environment; 4)Developing new methods of land consolidation benefit evaluation; 5)Pay attention to scale definition and multi-scale coupling research in land consolidation. <br> consolidation. Exploring land consolidation potential and the impact of land consolidation on grain productivity and food security are the cores of the quantity and quality study on newly developed cultivated land.②The impact of land consolidation on regional ecology and environment. Current research focused on land consolidation’s effect on soil, biodiversity and ecosystem services. ③Land consolidation and new rural construction. Lots of previous researches have investigated the relationship between land consolidation and new rural construction, exploring the interactive coupling mechanism of them.④The benefit assessment of land consolidation. Currently the temporal-scale of benefit assessment applied is quite limited, and what we need in the benefit assessment of land consolidation is the long-term and large-scale observation. It is concluded that study on land consolidation has made significant progress in China, but there are still many shortcomings. The following aspects still need further attention in the future: 1)Attaching importance to the research on essential connotation and core objectives of land consolidation. 2)Paying attention to the research of quantity and quality of land remediation and the research of ecological potential, grain productivity and food security. 3)Deepening the study on impact of land consolidation on ecological environment; 4)Developing new methods of land consolidation benefit evaluation; 5)Pay attention to scale definition and multi-scale coupling research in land consolidation.
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