Study on Population-Farmland-Settlement in West Hainan at Town Scale

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The paper chooses West Hainan (Dongfang city and Changjiang county) as the research area, takes the towns as the unit, and analyses the change and relationship of population-farmland-settlement from 1950s to 1970s. The research shows that the correlation coefficient of population size and farmland area is 0.313 in 1950s and 0.417 in 1970s in West Hainans 29 towns, the two belong to low correlation, population and farmland have smaller relationship; the correlation coefficient of farmland area and settlement area is 0.454 in 1950s and 0.598 in 1970s, the two belong to moderate correlation, farmland and settlement have substantive relationship; the correlation coefficient of population size and settlement area is 0.794 in 1950s and 0.710 in 1970s, the two belong to high correlation, the relationship between the population and the settlement is very close.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 726-731)

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4823-4826

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August 2013

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