Abstract:

The background of this paper is that the question of intensive land use becomes one of the most significant questions now, but research in ruralurban ecotone is still little. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the intensive land use of typical area of Qixia, and explore the characteristics and methods of intensive land use assessment in ruralurban ecotone. Methods of model, principal component analysis, literature are used in this study. The results revealed that the situation of intensive land use in Qixia district showed a steady upward trend as a whole, and the rise was considerable high during 9 years. However, with the limitation of industrial developing model, the level of land intensive use was still low. The conclusion disclosed that intensive land use in ruralurban ecotone had its feature different from the ones in rural or urban, the method of PSR model for intensive land use assessment in ruralurban ecotone was feasible, and the practice in the study area was successful. The results could well reflect the intensive land use situation and its evolution, and well show the relationship of the interaction between each subsystems of the study area