A comprehensive evaluation of the eco-carrying capacity and green economy in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China

Polycentric or monocentric, which kind of spatial structure is better for promoting the green economy? Evidence from Chinese urban agglomerations

“…Since the green economy first proposed by Pearce et al in 1989, its connotation has gradually enriched, and papers related to the evaluation approaches, assessing tools and research perspectives of green economy are substantial. For example, if scholars want to evaluate the development of green economy, they can choose methodology such as comprehensive evaluation (Huang and Li, 2017;Wu et al, 2021;Abid et al, 2021), efficiency measurement (Ringel et al, 2016;Miao et al, 2019;Pan et al, 2019;, cost-benefit analysis (Söderqvist et al, 2015;Carroll and Couzo, 2021;Owsianiak, et al, 2021;Li et al, 2021), and life cycle assessment (Finnveden et al, 2009;Hoogmartens et al, 2014;Röck et al, 2020;Gupta et al, 2020). In a paper, titled Green economy and related concepts: An overview, published by Loiseau et al (2016), the authors concluded that over half of the keywords related to "green economy" belong to the semantic fields of economy, environment, resources (e.g., issues named economic development, growth, cost, climate change, renewable resources, energy consumption).…”

“…However, due to the lack of statistical data, constructing a database for cities is always not easy. Based on the existing papers (Xie et al, 2016;Haider et al, 2018;Tian and Sun, 2018;Merino-Saum et al, 2018;Verma and Raghubanshi, 2018;Zhang et al, 2018;Wu et al, 2021), we construct evaluation indicator system (Table 1) containing three levels: the first one is the target level, which represents green economy; the second one is standard level, including the three subsystems economy, resources and environment; the third one is the indicator level, containing a total of 19 indicators.…”

Comprehensive Partitions and Optimization Strategies Based on Tourism Urbanization and Resources and Environment Carrying Capacity in the Yellow River Basin, China

“…(1) Index system construction The carrying capacity of urban resources and environment refers to the economic condition and social activities that can be supported by resources and environment in the existing conditions. (Wang et al 2017a;Wu et al 2020)Resources and environmental carrying capacity is closely related to the strategic development of villages, cities, and the country, and the openness and pluralism of the society have promoted its transition from ecology to sociology. It is generally believed that the stability of the composite ecosystem is based on the balance between resources, environment, society, and economy, with the diverse subsystems independent and interrelated (Xu et al 2003;Feng et al 2018).…”

Polycentric or monocentric, which kind of spatial structure is better for promoting the green economy? Evidence from Chinese urban agglomerations

“…Since the green economy first proposed by Pearce et al in 1989, its connotation has gradually enriched, and papers related to the evaluation approaches, assessing tools and research perspectives of green economy are substantial. For example, if scholars want to evaluate the development of green economy, they can choose methodology such as comprehensive evaluation (Huang and Li, 2017;Wu et al, 2021;Abid et al, 2021), efficiency measurement (Ringel et al, 2016;Miao et al, 2019;Pan et al, 2019;, cost-benefit analysis (Söderqvist et al, 2015;Carroll and Couzo, 2021;Owsianiak, et al, 2021;Li et al, 2021), and life cycle assessment (Finnveden et al, 2009;Hoogmartens et al, 2014;Röck et al, 2020;Gupta et al, 2020). In a paper, titled Green economy and related concepts: An overview, published by Loiseau et al (2016), the authors concluded that over half of the keywords related to "green economy" belong to the semantic fields of economy, environment, resources (e.g., issues named economic development, growth, cost, climate change, renewable resources, energy consumption).…”