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As the basic administrative unit of China, counties have grown rapidly in recent years in the context of rapid urbanization, especially for counties located in mountainous areas. The drastic changes in land in mountainous areas can easily cause irreversible damage to the sensitive ecological environment. Through the dual-objective suitability zoning of ecological and construction balance, regional sustainable land use patterns can be realized. In this study, Hantai District in Southern Shaanxi province, China, was chosen as the research area aiming at creating a balance between ecological supply and the development of construction in spatial planning. A dual-objective process evaluation system for ecological protection and construction development was proposed with 15 resistance factors selected from three attributes: natural ecology, economic society, and policy. The minimum resistance surface discrimination methods for ecological land and construction development land were proposed based on vertical space superposition and horizontal minimum cumulative resistance models. Finally, the land in Hantai District was divided into four development grades from the optimal angle of dual goals, i.e., the construction core zone being 134.56 km2, the suitable construction zone 115.77 km2, the ecological buffer zone 153.74 km2, and the ecological control zone 151.93 km2,using the method combining resistance difference and threshold division. In addition, the development direction of each town under jurisdiction was identified. This study compensates for the deficiency of traditional methods that evaluate land only from a single vertical or horizontal process.
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This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi (2021SF-458); National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFD1100901).
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Wang, L., Wu, L., Zhang, W. et al. Dual-objective pattern optimization method for land suitability zoning in mountain counties. J. Mt. Sci. 20, 209–226 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-022-7372-z
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