Understanding the spatial-temporal variation of human footprint in Jiangsu Province, China, its anthropogenic and natural drivers and potential implications.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of human pressures provides a foundation for understanding interactions between human and environment and managing human activities for a sustainable development. This study is the first attempt focused within China at calculating the spatial-temporal human footprint and its driving forces in a highly urbanized area with intensive human activities. Population, land use, night-time lights, and road impacts were used to generate human footprint maps of Jiangsu Province for 2000, 2010 and 2015 with a resolution of 1 km * 1 km. Five natural drivers and four anthropogenic drivers were employed to construct generalized additive models for explaining the spatial variation of human footprint and its change. It shows that a large difference is between

SUBMITTER: Shen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7414874 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature