Abstract:With the rapid expansion of urbanized areas worldwide, the issue of the sustainability and effectiveness of protected areas under urbanization pressures has garnered significant attention both domestically and internationally. In the process of balancing nature conservation and urban socio-economic development, the land use conflict in the edge area of urban protected areas has become a challenging issue in the coordinated management of conservation and utilization and a key factor influencing the effectiveness of protection. There is an urgent need for a scientific method to assess land conflicts as technical support for precise intervention. The study constructs a classification and assessment framework for land use conflicts in the edge areas of urban protected areas, consisting of three types: institutional conflicts, conservation and utilization conflicts, and conflicts between different land uses. Methods such as matrix analysis, MaxEnt habitat simulation, and land multi-suitability analysis are employed. An empirical application is conducted in the Jinyun Mountain National Nature Reserve, located in the main urban area of Chongqing. The identification results show that, in terms of conflict scale, the area of conflict-prone zones of different utilization modes is the largest, and the area of institutional conflict-prone zones is the smallest. Regarding conflict type, the distribution of conflicts of varying utilization modes and conflicts of conservation utilization overlap to a high degree. Regarding conflict intensity, most high-intensity land-use conflicts are in regions with a high degree of urbanization. Suggestions for planning and regulation of the edge zone of the Jinyun Mountain National Nature Reserve are proposed from spatial planning and conflict governance, providing support for formulating planning and management policies for the edge areas of urban protected areas.