Governance efficiency of rural human settlement environment in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China: Regional differences, dynamic evolution, and influencing factors
Quantitative analysis reveals regional disparities in rural settlement governance efficiency across major river basins, highlighting targeted policy needs.
Key Points
Measure the governance efficiency of rural human settlements across ecological, living, and production dimensions and evaluate the spatial disparities, dynamic trends, and driving mechanisms.
Quantified rural governance efficiency using a super-efficient slack-based measure (SBM) model across ecology, life, and production domains.
Evaluated spatial disparity trends, state transition dynamics, and key influencing factors using the Gini coefficient, Markov chain modeling, and Tobit regression.
Overall governance efficiency followed a fluctuating upward trajectory, structured along a gradient where downstream regions outperformed midstream and upstream areas.
Regional disparities showed a fluctuating downward trend driven predominantly by inter-regional gaps, with Markov analysis demonstrating strong convergence in low-efficiency regions alongside low stability in high-efficiency regions.
Efficiency was significantly influenced by government financial support, informatization, economic development, and educational attainment levels.