Author(s)

Tao Zhang^1*, Qinian Hu¹, Hiroatsu Fukuda¹, Dian Zhou²

¹Faculty of Environmental Engineering, The University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan.
²School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China.

The gully region of Loess Plateau is one of the earliest human settlement areas and the most ecologically sensitive areas in China. It has been facing challenges for future development. Gully village is the smallest social units on Loess Plateau that owns large amount of agricultural population. However, due to inappropriate development planning and lack of developing directions, they are gradually disappearing. Based on the practical investigations of the Gully Regions of Loess Plateau, this paper aims to explore a new way for the future development of gully villages. Firstly, it classifies the gully villages by the distribution of location. Secondly, selecting ecological construction evaluation factors of gully village and completing the quantitative evaluation are applied on the suitability and sensitivity of ecological sustainable development classification. Thirdly, according to the comprehensive evaluation, the developing condition of each gully village is divided into “Good”, “General” and “Poor”. Finally, this paper figures out the future developing direction for gully villages in different developing conditions.

Loess Plateau, Gully Village, Comprehensive Evaluation, Suitability, Sensitivity

Zhang, T. , Hu, Q. , Fukuda, H. and Zhou, D. (2016) The Evaluation Method of Gully Village’s Ecological Sustainable Development in the Gully Regions of Loess Plateau. Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research, 4, 1-12. doi: 10.4236/jbcpr.2016.41001.