Abstract:

The study scientifically evaluates the quality of rural human settlement in Hunan Province and provides countermeasures and scientific basis for its improvement. This paper constructs an evaluation index system for the quality of rural human settlement in Hunan Province, consisting of four subsystems: economic environment, infrastructure, public services, and ecological environment. By employing methods such as the entropy method and geographic visualization, it explores the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of rural human settlement quality in Hunan Province from 2015 to 2024. Over the past decade, the overall quality of rural human settlement in Hunan Province and the quality of each subsystem have significant improvements. There are significant spatial differences in human settlement quality, with the eastern region, represented by the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan area, leading in terms of scores, while the western region scores relatively lower. In the governance of rural human settlement in Hunan Province, it is necessary to narrow regional spatial differences and continuously improve the quality of rural human settlement environment in various regions of Hunan Province from the four aspects of economic environment, infrastructure, public services, and ecological environment, based on actual conditions and tailored to local circumstances.

Key words: Hunan rural living environment, evaluation system, entropy method, spatio-temporal evolution characteristics, economic environment, regional disparity, improvement countermeasures