Driving Effects of Population on Cultivated Land in Jiangsu Province
This paper analysed the driving effect of population on cultivated land decrease in Jiangsu Province by time sequence and regional difference.It is suggested as follows:1.The population increasing is one of the vital driving forces of cultivated land decrease. 2. As the economy develops, the population increase plays a less important role in cultivated land decrease.3.The driving mechanism mainly includes residential construction, communication lines construction, urban area expansion, and the change of land use. To counter the tendency of cultivated land decrease with the population increase, some measures were proposed.