Trends and Driving Mechanism of Land-use Change in Metropolitan Areas of Pearl River Delta

摘要

Taking Pearl River Delta for an example this study focuses on the trends and the driving mechanism of land-use changes in metropolises,in order to achieve the fundamental objectives of LUCC study increasing the awareness on dynamics of global land-use and land-cover changes,and improving the ability of forecasting LUCC.By analyzing the land-use change in Pearl River Delta from1996 to 2006,it is found that the differences among internal space are notable.By establishing time-sequence –curve with SPSS software,it is shown that trends of land-use change are very clear.With factor analysis on land-use change,the study summarizes four factors of driving mechanism,including factors of economic development level,regional industrial structure,demographic and agricultural structure adjustment,which impact land change in Pearl River Delta to a different extent.