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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
The Mediating Effect of Urban-Rural Fringe
in the Interaction Between Urbanization
and Ecosystem Health
1
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, 441053, China
Submission date: 2024-04-17
Final revision date: 2024-06-09
Acceptance date: 2024-06-30
Online publication date: 2024-11-13
Publication date: 2025-06-06
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(4):4899-4913
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ABSTRACT
In this paper, the PLS-SEM model is introduced to construct the intermediary effect model of
urban-rural fringe in the interaction between urbanization and ecosystem health. Firstly, the urban-rural
fringe was demarcated by the k-means clustering method, and the accuracy of k-means and clustering
was evaluated using the silhouette coefficient (SC) and consistency ratio (CR). Then, the urban-rural
fringe, urbanization, and ecosystem health data were collected, analyzed, and constructed. Finally,
based on the PLS-SEM model, the mediating effect model of urban-rural fringe in the interaction
between urbanization and ecosystem health was constructed and analyzed. The results show that:
(1) The urban-rural fringe is more accurate: the urban core (UC) and near-urban core (NUC) areas are
basically consistent with the current urban core areas, CR values are more than 77%. (2) The mediating
effect of the urban-rural fringe in the interaction between urbanization and ecosystem health was
significant (-0.204/-0.214), the hypothesis is true. (3) Suppose that there are two mediating effect paths:
a. Population urbanization through economic urbanization and spatial urbanization, taking the urbanrural
fringe as an intermediary has an impact on ecosystem health (PU-EU-SU-UR-EH). b. Population
urbanization through economic urbanization, taking the urban-rural fringe as an intermediary has an
impact on ecosystem health (PU-EU-UR-EH).
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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