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Coupled dynamics of urban landscape pattern and socioeconomic drivers in Shenzhen, China

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The effects of land use policy and socioeconomic changes on urban landscape dynamics have been increasingly investigated around the world, but our knowledge of the underlying processes of these effects is still inadequate for sustainably managing urban ecosystems. Thus, the main goal of this study was to understand: (1) the changes in urban landscape, population, and economic conditions over a 36-year period, and (2) the coupled dynamics of land use policy, landscape structure, major demographic features, and three kinds of industries in one of the most dazzling modern cities of China—the Shenzhen special economic zone (SEZ). The landscape expansion index was used to explore the developed-land expansion under different land use policies while structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the relationship among three variables (Land Cover Change or LCC, Economy, and Population). We found that the urban expansion during the four periods (1973–1979, 1979–1995, 1995–2003, and 2003–2009) was not always at the expense of urban vegetation cover. The importance of each socioeconomic driver during the four periods was not consistent over time, with policy shifts as the primary driver. Our SEM showed that Economy played a more important role than Population in driving LCC in the Shenzhen SEZ. Meanwhile, the secondary and tertiary industries had a stronger influence than the primary industry; and the floating population had a greater effect than the registered permanent population.

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This study was supported by the City Management Department of Shenzhen and the IceMe of NUIST. We thank Dr. Chongfeng Gong for providing classified land cover coverage of the Shenzhen SEZ for this study. Thanks to Lisa Delp Taylor for editing the English of earlier drafts of the manuscript and Yangjian Zhang for proof reading the final version of the Manuscript.

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  1. International Center for Ecology, Meteorology and Environment (IceMe), School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Li Tian & Jiquan Chen

  2. School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China

    Li Tian & Shi Xiao Yu

  3. Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Urban Landscape Dynamics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China

    Li Tian & Shi Xiao Yu

  4. Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Lhasa Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Li Tian

  5. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 43606, USA

    Jiquan Chen

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Tian, L., Chen, J. & Yu, S.X. Coupled dynamics of urban landscape pattern and socioeconomic drivers in Shenzhen, China. Landscape Ecol 29, 715–727 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-014-9995-0

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