Evaluating the quality of rural human settlements and the perception of farm households—A case study of traditional agricultural areas in China

With the acceleration of urbanization in China, rural areas are facing challenges such as population loss, land abandonment and ecological degradation, and improving the quality of human settlements has become an important task in the strategy of rural revitalization. Taking traditional agricultural areas in Henan Province as a case study, this study constructs a bidirectional subjective-objective validation framework, combining top-down measurement of rural habitat quality index and bottom-up satisfaction survey of farmers, to explore the adaptation mechanism between objective indicators and subjective perceptions. The study selected four types of differentiated geomorphological units in Song County, Luoyang City, Jia County, Pingdingshan City, Luoshan County, Xinyang City, and Fengqiu County, Xinxiang City, to reveal the multi-scale characteristics of the quality of the…