The resilience of rural human settlements system and its key factors in traditional agricultural areas of the Loess Plateau:Taking Jiaxian county in Northern Shaanxi as an example
Rural villages within remote and disadvantaged agricultural areas are more vulnera-ble to the adverse impacts of environmental change and more difficult to recover,while enhanc-ing the resilience of the human settlements system is a powerful way to get rid of the adverse impacts and to realize the transformation and revitalization of rural areas.This study decon-structed the resilience of RHSS in traditional agricultural areas into three dimensions,that is buffer capacity,adaptive capacity,and transformation and innovation capacity,and constructed the framework for RHSS resilience.Further,the study constructed an index system for assess-ing the resilience of RHSS in traditional agricultural areas of the Loess Plateau,and carried out a village-scale empirical study with 62 sample villages in Jiaxian county,Northern Shaanxi province.Based on the first-hand information obtained from the field survey,the spatial differ-entiation characteristics and the key factors of RHSS resilience were revealed by using Arcgis spatial analysis,the contribution model,and the obstacle model.The study found that:Firstly,the proportion of villages in the study area with resilience in RHSS below 0.5 reached 61.29％.As for the subsystems,the resilience of the natural ecosystem is generally higher than that of the socio-economic system and the support system,while there are large spatial differences in the resilience of the support system.Secondly,the resilience of the RHSS in the study area is mainly derived from the adaptive capacity dimension of the natural ecosystem and support sys-tem,and the buffering capacity dimension of the socio-economic system.The transformation and innovative capacity,which is of transformational significance,is extremely low and highly spatially differentiated,and an obstacle to the formation of the resilience of the socio-economic and the support systems in more than 85％of the villages.Thirdly,among the key indicators for the formation of the resilience of the RHSS in the study area,the contributors are ecological ser-vice experience,sense of community,neighborhood friendliness,and community management services,while the barriers are agro-cultural landscapes,family farms,agricultural coopera-tives,cultural heritage support,and logistics and delivery services.
rural human settlements system(RHSS)resiliencespatial differentiationbarrier factorcontribution factorLoess Plateau
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