Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Traditional Villages on the Tibetan Plateau in China

作者：Jin Liu, Zongqi Wang, Xiaohong Chen · 发表于：International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.3390/ijerph192013170 · 被引用次数：49 · 研究领域：Land Use and Ecosystem Services、Remote Sensing and Land Use、Urbanization and City Planning

The Tibetan Plateau is one of the world's most extreme habitats and one of the most challenging ecosystems on the planet. Many multi-ethnic traditional villages have developed on the plateau over its long history, and are an essential component of human settlement. It is critical to research them, and it is also significant for China's goals to make the Tibetan Plateau a distinctive ethnic cultural preservation site and a world tourist destination. While there have been limited studies focusing on villages in the entire Tibetan Plateau area, as a result, we aim to expand the field of research on the regional study of traditional villages and make progress in research throughout the Tibetan Plateau. The question addressed in this study is what the current characteristics of the distribution of traditional villages on the Tibetan Plateau are, and we attempt to propose suggestions for the preservation of traditional villages according to the distribution characteristics. Methods such as the closest neighbor index, kernel density estimates, and spatial autocorrelation analysis are used to investigate the characteristics of the spatial distribution of traditional Chinese villages on the Tibetan Plateau, as well as regression analysis of the factors that control this distribution. The findings indicate that traditional villages are unevenly distributed over the plateau, with fewer villages in the northwest and more in the southeast, showing an agglomeration type of distribution. Th...