Classification of regional agricultural structure:method and its application to China  

作　　者：Mou Ziping Lei Hongmei Chen Guangping Li Xin 

机构地区：[1]Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215011, P.R. China [2]College of Foreign Languages, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215011, P. R. China

出　　处：《Ecological Economy》2008年第4期410-417,共8页生态经济（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Natural Sci-ence Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK2005040);the MOHURD Program of China (Grant No. 06-R5-10).

摘　　要：Regional agriculture is the basis of regional sustainable development, so sustainable regional agricultural development is essential to the sustainable development of the whole society and becomes the focus of global research. The classification of regional agricultural structure is the basic work of regional agriculture study. This paper constructs index system （27 indices） of regional agricultural structure types with the three big indices： natural resources, developmental level of the agro-economy, and agro-ecological conditions. This paper also endows weight to every sub-classification index by means of AHP and obtains the comprehensive evaluation value of the three types of indices with arithmetic average weight approach. The regional agricultural structure can be classified into eight types in accordance with this evaluation results. The empirical study of China shows that the 31 provinces （municipalities and autonomous regions） are of different agriculture structural types. Finally, countermeasures of sustainsable agricultural development are put forward for the different agriculture structure features.Regional agriculture is the basis of regional sustainable development,so sustainable regional agricul-tural development is essential to the sustainable development of the whole society and becomes the focus of global research.The classifi cation of regional agricultural structure is the basic work of regional agriculture study.This paper constructs index system(27 indices) of regional agricultural structure types with the three big indices:natural resources,developmental level of the agro-economy,and agro-ecological conditions.This paper also endows weight to every sub-classif ication index by means of AHP and obtains the comprehensive evaluation value of the three types of indices with arithmetic average weight approach.The regional agricultural structure can be classif ied into eight types in accordance with this evaluation results.The empirical study of China shows that the 31 provinces(munici-palities and autonomous regions) are of different agriculture structural types.Finally,countermeasures of sustain-able agricultural development are put forward for the different agriculture structure features.

关 键 词：AGRO-ECOLOGY China Classification method  Regional agriculture Structural type 

分 类 号：F327[经济管理—产业经济]