Alternative Zoning Scenarios for Regional Sustainable Land Use Controls in China: A Knowledge-Based Multiobjective Optimisation Model

作者：Xia, Yin; Liu, Dianfeng^*; Liu, Yaolin; He, Jianhua; Hong, Xiaofeng

来源：International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2014, 11(9): 8839-8866.

DOI：10.3390/ijerph110908839

• land use zoning
• scenario
• multiobjective optimisation
• goal programming
• simulated annealing

Alternative land use zoning scenarios provide guidance for sustainable land use controls. This study focused on an ecologically vulnerable catchment on the Loess Plateau in China, proposed a novel land use zoning model, and generated alternative zoning solutions to satisfy the various requirements of land use stakeholders and managers. This model combined multiple zoning objectives, i.e., maximum zoning suitability, maximum planning compatibility and maximum spatial compactness, with land use constraints by using goal programming technique, and employed a modified simulated annealing algorithm to search for the optimal zoning solutions. The land use zoning knowledge was incorporated into the initialisation operator and neighbourhood selection strategy of the simulated annealing algorithm to improve its efficiency. The case study indicates that the model is both effective and robust. Five optimal zoning scenarios of the study area were helpful for satisfying the requirements of land use controls in loess hilly regions, e. g., land use intensification, agricultural protection and environmental conservation.

• 出版日期2014-9
• 单位长江水资源保护科学研究所; 长江水利委员会长江科学院; 武汉大学