A study of best practices in promoting sustainable urbanization in China

Tan, Yongtao; Xu, Honggang; Jiao, Liudan; Ochoa, J. Jorge; Shen, Liyin

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.01.058

Cited by 40 publications

(23 citation statements)

References 46 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…It was counted as the world's largest flow of population from rural to urban areas in history [22,26]. The urbanization proportion went up from 17.92% to 49.95% between 1978 and 2010, with about 1% average growth rate [22,25,78], and was noted to be more than 56% in 2015 [31,32,79]. Presently, 59.2% of the total population of China is living in urban areas [24].…”

Section: Urban Development Trends Of China and Pakistanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Presently, 59.2% of the total population of China is living in urban areas [24]. This number is expected to reach 70% by 2030 [25]. About more than one billion people may live in urban areas by this time [21,80], and this percentage will grow further, up to 80% at the end of 2050 [24], as pointed out in Figures 1 and 2.…”

Section: Urban Development Trends Of China and Pakistanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…China has been experiencing the urbanization and expansion of cities since 1978 [21][22][23]. Today, urban areas bear a major proportion (59.2%) of the total population of China [24], which is expected to grow up to 70% by 2030 [25,26]. Mainly, China's urbanization has increased through market megacities' sustainability index in China.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Comparative Analysis of Urban Development Trends of Beijing and Karachi Metropolitan Areas

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Urban sustainability has become a significant challenge globally due to rapidly growing urbanization and industrialization. Hence, this study was conducted to examine the existing urban development trends of metropolitan cities (i.e., Beijing and Karachi) of China and Pakistan in the context of urban sustainability. The development progress in both cities was examined through urban sustainability indices individually and compared with each other. An index system considering 36 indicators was developed based on social, economic, and environmental aspects. The six years (2012–2017) of data used in this study, were obtained from various governmental websites. Furthermore, the Urban Sustainability Index (USI) was evaluated using the statistical standard equal-weighted method. Results revealed that Beijing’s developmental progress is much better than Karachi in terms of socio-economic and environmental development, but there is still a need for improvement. While Karachi faces problems in all three sectors, each indicator of these sectors requires considerable improvement for attaining the top level of the Urban Sustainability Index. However, this study recommends that much attention is needed in the case of Karachi city, whereas Beijing also needs quality advancement in urban development.

show abstract

Section: Urban Development Trends Of China and Pakistanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Urban Development Trends Of China and Pakistanmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Comparative Analysis of Urban Development Trends of Beijing and Karachi Metropolitan Areas

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Rapid urbanization has promoted social and economic development and benefits the people in terms of income growth and improved living conditions [8]. The urban population in China reached 50% for the first time in 2011 [9,10]. The conflicts under different development strategies has become a problem that urgently needs to be solved, especially in northwestern China, which has a vulnerable ecological environment.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scenarios Simulation of Spatio-Temporal Land Use Changes for Exploring Sustainable Management Strategies

Wang

Cai

et al. 2018

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Land use and land cover change have received considerable attention from global researchers in recent decades. The conflicts between different development strategies for land uses have become a problem that urgently needs to be solved, especially in those regions with a fragile ecological environment. The development of scenario simulations is essential in order to highlight possible alternative pathways for the future under the backgrounds of urbanization, economic growth and ecological protection. This study simulated land use changes for Tekes in 2020 with the Conversion of Land Use and its Effects at Small regional extent (CLUE-S) model under a 'business as usual' scenario, cropland protection scenario, ecological security scenario, and artificial modification scenario. The results indicated that the spatial patterns of the land use types were explained well by the environment variables, and the selected models had a satisfactory accuracy in this study. The requirements and the patterns were quite different owing to the variation of the major objectives of the four scenarios. In addition to the constraint rules of the land use transformation, the hot point for land use change was its spatial coherency. Areas near to an existing land use type were more likely to transform to that type than those farther away. The increased cropland and urban land were mainly located around the current cropland and urban land while forests and grassland were more likely to occur in places with flat terrain and good hydrological conditions. The results could contribute to better insight into the relationships between land use changes and their driving factors and provide a scientific basis for regional management strategies and sustainable land use development.

show abstract

“…Consequently, they study how to form urban and rural communities that meet people's social demand for sustainable urbanization. Besides, many scholars hold that environmental management is the most influential factor in sustainable development [25][26][27][28][29][30]. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the social, economic, environmental and other sustainable factors in the urbanization process.…”

Section: Sustainable Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gathered Village Location Optimization for Chinese Sustainable Urbanization Using an Integrated MODM Approach under Bi-Uncertain Environment

Lu¹,

Wang²,

Hu³

2017

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Urbanization has become a main challenge all over developing countries in the 21st Century. However, decision making should take into account the different national situations with their complex factors to achieve sustainable development. As standards of living have risen in urban areas, local/neighbor urbanization has become a coming trend in China. With this in mind, the paper focuses on the optimization of nearby gathered village locations in Population Migration (PM) with consideration of both qualitative and quantitative criteria. Therefore, an integrated multiple objective decision making approach (MODM) under a bi-uncertain environment is proposed to solve this problem, which is based on the comprehensive Economy-Society-Ecology-Resource-Religion (ESERR) urbanization concept. The first step is to establish a bi-uncertain multiple objective programming model orienting the problem. Secondly, the model process is composed of fuzzy random variable transformation and the expected value model based on a new fuzzy measure, which is given accordingly to obtain the equivalent model. Thirdly, in order to describe the model efficiently, the Multi-Objective Adaptive Global Local Neighbor Particle Swarm Optimization (MOAGLNPSO) with three-dimensional Pareto optimal judgment criteria is designed. Finally, a case study is tested to validate the effectiveness and to illustrate the advantages of the whole approach. This novel approach can help optimize sustainable urbanization strategies and ensure their realistic application.

show abstract

A study of best practices in promoting sustainable urbanization in China

Cited by 40 publications

References 46 publications

Comparative Analysis of Urban Development Trends of Beijing and Karachi Metropolitan Areas

Comparative Analysis of Urban Development Trends of Beijing and Karachi Metropolitan Areas

Scenarios Simulation of Spatio-Temporal Land Use Changes for Exploring Sustainable Management Strategies

Gathered Village Location Optimization for Chinese Sustainable Urbanization Using an Integrated MODM Approach under Bi-Uncertain Environment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About