The effects of land use change on the eco-environmental evolution of farming-pastoral region in Northern China:With an emphasis on Duolun County in Inner Mongolia
Abstract:The north farming-pastoral region is the most sensitive eco-environmental area in China. Land use changes play important roles in eco-environmental evolution in this area. Understanding how land use changes influence the eco-environmental evolution will help China to improve the eco-environmental quality of this area and it‘s neighboring areas. In this paper we use Duolun County as an example to investigate how land use changed in the past 50 years, and how these changes affected the quality of eco-environm...