| Author(s) | Title of work | Year | Methodology | Key finding(s) |
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| 2022 | Weight set involves setting the upper and lower bounds of indicators regarding relevant national standards, and indicator weight questionnaire APP of quality evaluation of urban-rural human settlements. Standardization involves using membership degree methods for standardizing the five indicators in terms of their grading target values. | Significant quality of urban-rural human settlements has occurred in China over the past 20 years, with decreasing tendency from the southeastern coastal area to the northwestern inland area spatially. |
| | Evaluation and analysis of the suitability of human settlement environment in Qingdao | 2021 | An index system having 10 index factors was constructed from natural and human factors. Exploration of the spatial aggregation and differentiation of the quality of the environment of human settlement, and the internal connection of spatial evolution. | A strong correlation exists between the quality of the human settlement environment and the degree of agglomeration. |
| | Analysis of the Evolution of Rural Settlement Pattern and Its Influencing Factors in China from 1995 to 2015 | 2021 | Land data from satellite imagery was used for analysis, also used were socioeconomics, landscape pattern analysis, field data survey, kernel density estimation, and spatial measurement models. | The two-decade study period revealed the continuous weakening of the population agglomeration capacity of rural settlements in China; also, the shape and the structure of rural settlements became more complex and irregular for the period under review. |