Assessment framework and empirical analysis of the ecological protection importance for key town agglomerations in China

Li, Zhigang; Zhong, Jialong; Yang, Jie; Zhang, Dong; He, Shan

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133682

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“…Therefore, maintaining the appropriateness of urban population size can alleviate the consumption of natural capital stock [51]. A suitable factor identification method is the cornerstone of a comprehensive evaluation study [52], and the research method in this paper may provide a basis for constructing an evaluation system for regional sustainable development research.…”

Section: The Main Factors Affecting Ecological Sustainabilitymentioning

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Assessment of Urban Agglomeration Ecological Sustainability and Identification of Influencing Factors: Based on the 3DEF Model and the Random Forest

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Zhong

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The evaluation of ecological sustainability is significant for high-quality urban development and scientific management and regulation. Taking the Chengdu urban agglomeration (CUA) as the research object, this paper combined the three-dimensional ecological footprint model (3DEF) and random forest to evaluate the ecological sustainability of the study area and identify the influencing factors. The study results indicate that: (1) From 2000 to 2019, the ecological sustainability of Chengdu urban agglomeration was divided into four types, and the overall ecological sustainability of this region showed a downward trend. The areas with higher ecological sustainability were mainly distributed in the northern part of the urban agglomeration (Mianyang City) and the southern part (Leshan City and Ya’an City), while the cities in the central region (Chengdu City, Meishan City, and Ziyang City) had lower ecological sustainability. (2) The main factors affecting the ecological sustainability of urban agglomerations are industrial wastewater discharge, industrial smoke (powder) dust discharge, and green coverage of built-up areas, followed by urbanization and population size. Through this study, we have two meaningful findings: (a) Our research method in this paper provides a new way to study the factors affecting the ecological sustainability of urban agglomerations. (b) The results of the identification of influencing factors might be the reference for urban environmental infrastructure construction and urban planning.

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Assessment of Urban Agglomeration Ecological Sustainability and Identification of Influencing Factors: Based on the 3DEF Model and the Random Forest

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“…A healthy economic system, high-quality infrastructure, and a good living environment are all necessary for high-quality urbanization [9]. To promote the citizenship of the agricultural population in coordination with the integrated development of urban and rural areas, to continuously improve the comprehensive carrying capacity of large cities, and to make up for the short boards of infrastructure, cultural construction, education, and medical care in small and medium-sized cities, to attract the citizenship of the agricultural population close to the city [10].…”

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Research on the Path of Integrating Ecological Culture into the High-Quality Development of Henan Urbanization in the Era of Big Data

Wang

2024

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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With the requirements of a high-quality development strategy, new urbanization also takes high quality as the development goal. This paper utilizes Henan Province as the spatial research carrier to screen and construct a model for urbanization high-quality development and ecological and culturally coordinated development. Comprehensive use of ArcGIS spatial analysis, coupled coordination degree model, synchronicity model and Markov chain and other methods and other methods of the main system, to analyze the regional differences in the level of high-quality and coordinated development of urbanization in Henan Province and the spatial evolution process. It also explores the evolutionary characteristics and functional interaction between urbanization and ecological culture in Henan from the perspective of high-quality development. The results show that the level of urbanization in Henan Province under the integration of ecological culture has been steadily increasing, but there is a large gap between the urbanization levels of various regions. Significant differences exist between the high-quality synergistic development of urbanization in Zhengzhou at the highest level of 0.7782 in the 2022 time period and the low level of only 0.33. This study can provide corresponding policy recommendations for the high-quality development of urbanization in Henan Province, as well as a reference for other provinces with similar urbanization processes as Henan Province.

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“…Today, people are increasingly moving to cities, causing the expansion of urban areas around the world [ 1 ]. About 54% of the world’s population lives in cities, and the UN expects that figure to rise to 66% by 2050 [ 2 , 3 ]. Population growth has increased the intensity of human activity, and urbanization poses increasingly serious problems.…”

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Analysis of the Impact of Landscape Patterns on Urban Heat Islands: A Case Study of Chengdu, China

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Li²,

Zhong³

2022

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The urbanization process, such as population growth and the expansion of roads, railways, residential areas, and industrial areas, causes severe landscape fragmentation and changes in the surface temperature balance, resulting in the heat island effect. This study used Landsat data to study the impact of landscape patterns on urban heat islands (UHIs) and temporal-spatial change characteristics. In addition, spatial correlation analysis was employed to detect the relationships between land surface temperature (LST) and landscape patterns. The results showed that the impervious surfaces landscape area increased significantly, and the Woodland landscape area increased. However, the bare land, cropland, and water body area decreased. The cohesion of cropland and woodland landscape in the suburb decreased, and there was a high degree of fragmentation. The difference between the contributions of the central city and suburbs to the whole region is narrowing, and the expansion of urban heat islands is shifting from the central city to the suburbs. The percentage of landscape index (PLAND) and the patch cohesion index (COHESION) of woodland, water body, and cropland were negatively correlated with LST. Meanwhile, the PLAND and COHESION of impervious surface and bare land were positively correlated with LST, and the splitting index (SPLIT) was the opposite of the PLAND and COHESION. The fragmentation of impervious surfaces and bare land landscapes reduces the UHI effect. Based on these results, countermeasures to mitigate the heat island effect are proposed. These measures will play an essential role in improving urban ecology and the environmental quality of human settlements.

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Assessment framework and empirical analysis of the ecological protection importance for key town agglomerations in China

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Assessment of Urban Agglomeration Ecological Sustainability and Identification of Influencing Factors: Based on the 3DEF Model and the Random Forest

Assessment of Urban Agglomeration Ecological Sustainability and Identification of Influencing Factors: Based on the 3DEF Model and the Random Forest

Research on the Path of Integrating Ecological Culture into the High-Quality Development of Henan Urbanization in the Era of Big Data

Analysis of the Impact of Landscape Patterns on Urban Heat Islands: A Case Study of Chengdu, China

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