This book attempts to introduce the theory of geography and laws into the land management to explore land conflicts. Based on existing research results of domestic and foreign land disputes and the status quo of social and economic development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, this book takes the realistic needs of building a safe China as a logical starting point, and closely focuses on the main line of research on the temporal and spatial evolution of land disputes.

In terms of the contents, this book discusses the spatio-temporal evolution mechanism of land disputes in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from three aspects, using JavaScript scripting language to crawl the judgment documents related to land disputes in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2014 to 2020 on the China Judgment Document Network, and use Python to extract a total of 13101 judgment documents that conform to this research to establish a case system for land disputes in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, analyzes the time evolution characteristics, spatial evolution process, revealing regional differences of land conflicts, exploring the temporal and spatial heterogeneity of the fitting coefficients of each influencing factor at the global and local scales, and scientifically analyze each impact of factors on land disputes in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

This book helps readers gain a holistic understanding of the land conflicts in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. This book not only provides references for graduate and researchers in land management, public administration, geography, regional development, law, and other related fields but also guides the decision-making of planners and government officials around the world.

Bixia Hu is currently working as an assistant researcher at China Land Surveying and Planning Institute, China. She graduated in 2018 with a Master’s degree in Land Resource Management and obtained her Ph.D. in 2021 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. She obtain national scholarship three times from Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. Her research interests include land disputes in China and urban land green use, and she has published nearly 20 papers in leading journals such as Land Use Policy and Economic Geography, including 1 ESI Global Highly Cited Paper.