[1]FANG Xuan,LIU De-lin,LI Bi-cheng.Assessment of Land Use Suitability at Town Scale on Loess Plateau —A Case in Hechuan Town, Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2014,21(05):174-178.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
21
Number of periods:
2014 05
Page number:
174-178
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Public date:
2014-10-28
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Assessment of Land Use Suitability at Town Scale on Loess Plateau —A Case in Hechuan Town, Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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FANG Xuan1, LIU De-lin2, LI Bi-cheng3
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1. School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 223800, China;
2. School of Emergency Management, He’nan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, He’nan 454000, China;
3. Research Center of Soil and Water Conservation and Ecological Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Keywords:
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land use; suitability assessment; Loess Plateau; Town Scale; GIS; Hechuan Town
- CLC:
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F301.24
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- Abstract:
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The land use suitability at town scale on Loess Plateau was evaluated in this study by taking Hechuan Town of Guyuan City in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region as an example. The assessment index system of land use suitability including terrain, soil nutrient, soil erosion, water factors was established based on considering the natural and social economic situation of of Hechuan Town. The index weight of suitability assessment was determined by the analytic hierarchy, the spatial analysis method on GIS and the comprehensive index method were conducted to assessment the land use suitability. The results showed that the land of Hechuan Town was classified into five categories which were the land highly suitable for agriculture, moderately suitable for agriculture, suitable for forestry, suitable for forestry and stockbreeding, suitable for stockbreeding, and accounted for 7.34%, 3.49%, 2.47%, 41.37% and 35.33%, respectively. This assessment results could provide data basis to determine the best land use plan of the study area.