Table 5 Indicator system of external influencing factors
Influencing factors category | Indicators | Data source |
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Natural environment | Altitude (Alt), Forest Coverage (FC), Distance from Urban Areas (DUA), Hydrographic Net (HN) | Remote sensing images and vectorized topographic maps |
Social economy | Total Population (TP), Permanent Resident Population (PRP), Main Traffic (MT), Per Capita Cultivated Land (PCCL), Per capita average income (PCAI) | The archives of traditional villages in Guizhou Province and the statistical data of relevant departments |
Policies factors | Government protect time (GPT), Infrastructure Investment (II), Investment in traditional landscape maintenance (ITLM) | policy documents and materials from the official websites of the Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development of the People's Republic of China and the Guizhou Provincial Department of Housing and Urban–Rural Development |
Cultural factors | Number of religious types (NRT), Number of folk culture (NFC), Number of educational facilities (NEF) | The field investigation |