title: Analysis of the land use structure changes based on Lorenz curves.
abstract: Land use change has become a new field in global change research, and it is closely related to land resource security and sustainable development. The environmental simulation model was mostly used to study the land-use change before. In this paper, we use the Economic Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient of economic model to study the land use structure changes in the western plain of Jilin Province, China. The results showed that the Lorenz curve has the phenomenon of "two near and two far" and Gini coefficient "two increased and two decreased". That is to say, during the 15 years from 1989 to 2004, the areas of cultivated land and unused land had increased, Lorenz curves were near to the perfect equality line, and the distribution tended to be uniform; the areas of grassland and water body were reduced, the Lorenz curves were away from the perfect equality line, and the distribution tended to be increasingly uneven, which reflects the main process of the land use structure changes. Studying on the land use changes based on Economic model is simpler and more intuitionistic, and had the generalization values.
authors.affiliation: College of Environment and Resources, Jilin University, 6 Ximinzhu Street, Changchun, 130026, China. tangjie0724@163.com
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Xuege
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D018556:Crops, Agricultural; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017215:Satellite Communications