Author:Yiwen Xu Author Unit: China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Abstract：With the introduction of land use transition to the academic circle of China since the turn of the new
millennium, related researches combining with the characteristics of Chinas socio-economic development have
been carried out extensively. Recently, issues related to land use transition in China have attracted interest
among a wide variety of researchers as well as the government officials. Land use transition refers to the
changes in land use morphology including dominant morphology and recessive morphology of a certain region
over a certain period of time driven by socio-economic change and innovation. In general, dominant land use
morphology refers to the quantity, structure and spatial pattern of land use, and recessive land use morphology
includes land use features in terms of aspects of quality, price, property rights, management mode, input and
productive ability, and function. This paper puts forward the theoretical model of regional land use transition as
the following: with the socio-economic development, the transformations between different land use types
during a certain period of time arise the changes of regional land use morphology pattern from strong conflict
to weak conflict, i.e., coordination, which enable a new balance between different land use morphology patterns
reflecting the development trend of different economic departments, and then realize the transformation of
urban-rural land use system from quantitative change to qualitative change. Then, the mechanism of mutual
feedback between land use transition and land management was probed based on a three-fold framework of
natural system-economic system-managerial institution system. Generally, land use transition is affected by
land management via economic measures, land resources engineering, policy and institution. Land use
transition can also contribute to the adjustment of land management measures via socio-ecological feedback.
Therefore, policy-makers need to adjust their land management policies taking into account the continuous
change of land use morphology and different phases of regional land use transition. Under the background of
urban- rural transformation development, the researches of land use transition and land management may focus
on how to measure the transitions of land use dominant morphology and recessive morphology and the
subsequent transition of the function of land use system, how to measure the socio-economic and
environmental effects of land use transitions, how to refine the popular model of regional land use transition,
and how to adjust land use transition via socio- economic and engineering measurements. Finally, the author
argues that more attentions need to be paid to the recessive morphology of land use, the change of which is the
key to policy and institution innovation and improving land management.
Keywords：Use transition; Land management;Theoretical model;Mutual feedback;Mechanism;Policy and institution innovation
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