Integrating Sustainability Assessment into Decoupling Analysis: A Focus on the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomerations

Huang, Yijia; Zhang, Jiaqi; Wu, Jinqun

doi:10.3390/su12197872

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“…(2016) was not a simple adoption of the mainstream methods but instead proposed a useful quantification approach that was more appropriate than mainstream methods for their specific study area and research purpose. We also found that studies performed at smaller scales could reveal the changes in the water PB and state as well as the water‐use sustainability over time (Dong et al., 2021; Y. J. Huang et al., 2020; Yang & Cheng, 2021); these factors are relatively difficult to assess at larger scales.…”

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confidence: 83%

Review of Quantitative Applications of the Concept of the Water Planetary Boundary at Different Spatial Scales

Han

Leng

2023

Water Resources Research

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With the advent of the Anthropocene (Lewis & Maslin, 2015), many critical Earth-system processes have been significantly impacted, thus placing the system at great risk of reaching a dangerous level (Steffen et al., 2018). The "planetary boundary" (PB) concept was proposed (Rockstrom et al., 2009a(Rockstrom et al., , 2009b to define a safe operating space for humanity without destabilizing critical planetary processes, with the Holocene baseline corresponding to the optimal planetary state (O'Neill et al., 2018). Specifically, nine PBs have been defined, and climate change and biodiversity integrity have been identified as two core PBs due to the significant impacts of these factors on the Earth system (Steffen et al., 2018). By emphasizing the urgency of taking appropriate actions to defend the Earth against the risks of crossing the "tipping point," PB research has had a considerable impact on global policy-making (Galaz et al., 2012).As an essential part of the PB framework, the water PB provides a global limitation to human manipulation of the water cycle (Rockstrom et al., 2009a). The initial determination of the water PB was made by Rockstrom et al. (2009a), who adopted a blue-water (i.e., water in aquifers, lakes, and dams) use magnitude of 4,000 (4,000-6,000) km 3 /yr as the water PB. A subsequent revision was made by Gerten et al. (2013), who proposed a blue-water use magnitude of 2,800 (1,100-4,500) km 3 /yr as the water PB. In the latest version of the PB framework (Steffen et al., 2015), proposed a two-level water PB, including a global-scale PB and a basin-scale PB. Recently, Gleeson, proposed a series of subboundaries to better examine the role of water-cycle modifications in Earth system resilience. Zipper et al. (2020) further explored how to integrate the water PB with water management from the local to global scales by harmonizing the quantification approaches of fair shares (top-down) and local safe operating spaces (bottom-up). In addition to the blue water-based PB, Wang-Erlandsson et al. (2022) attempted to quantify the water PB from the green water (i.e., terrestrial precipitation, evaporation, and soil moisture) perspective, and indicated a transgression of the green water PB.

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confidence: 83%

Review of Quantitative Applications of the Concept of the Water Planetary Boundary at Different Spatial Scales

Han

Leng

2023

Water Resources Research

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“…With the acceleration of urbanization, urban agglomeration has gradually become an important development model, and more and more scholars have studied the sustainable development of a certain region or urban agglomeration (Tan et al, 202;Zinatizadeh et al, 2017), mainly focusing on China's Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration (Huang et al, 2020), Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration (Chen et al, 2019), Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration (Cheng et al, 2020), the Yangtze River urban agglomeration (Gu et al, 2015;Luo et al, 2021), etc. In addition, in recent years, research on the sustainable development of foreign urban agglomerations has gradually emerged (Butsch et al, 2017).…”

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Evaluation of the Sustainable Development of the Social-Economic-Natural Compound Ecosystem in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Urban Agglomeration (China): Based on Complex Network Analysis

Zhao

Chen

Cai

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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In the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), a series of natural environmental, economic, and social issues have emerged sequentially in the process of rapid economic and social development. Therefore, for the sustainable development of the GBA, how to closely integrate nature protection with economic and social development to improve the sustainable development level of the social-economic-natural compound ecosystem, and realize the coordinated development of the system is particularly important. Based on the perspective of complex network and the theory of compound ecosystem, this study proposes a set of sustainable development evaluation model based on complex network modeling to evaluate the sustainable development level of compound ecosystem in GBA from 2014 to 2018, and further analyze the coupling coordination degree. The major findings include: 1) For the sustainable development in the GBA, the development of the natural subsystem is an important foundation, and the synchronous development of the social and economic subsystems are the main driving force. 2) The sustainable development level in the GBA shows an overall steady upward trend; the average level of the compound ecosystem’s coupling coordination development is in a “good” state, and it shows an evident upward trend. 3) Whether it is within the GBA or the GBA and its surrounding regions, there are problems of unbalanced and insufficient regional development. Policy recommendations include increasing the emphasis on the sustainable development of the natural subsystem, promoting the coordinated development of the economic, social, and natural subsystems, and promoting the balanced development of cities within the GBA, as well as the GBA and surrounding regions.

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“…There is now a modest growth industry in downscaled PBs, DPBs [71][72][73], which have been proposed as ways of distributing responsibility for the planet down to regional and local levels where citizens might more readily become engaged: "Think globally, act locally." As with sustainability indicators, a literature assessing DPBs is emerging [64,74].…”

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Resource Scarcity and Sustainability—The Shapes Have Shifted but the Stakes Keep Rising

Randall

2021

Sustainability

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The objective is to provide an interpretive reading of the literature in resource scarcity and sustainability theory from the nineteenth century to the present time, focusing on shifts that have occurred in problem definition, conceptual framing, research tools applied, findings, and their implications. My reading shows, as one would expect, that the discourse has become more technical and the analysis more sophisticated; special cases have been incorporated into the mainstream of theory; and, where relevant, dynamic formulations have largely supplanted static analysis. However, that is barely scratching the surface. Here, I focus on more fundamental shifts. Exhaustible and renewable resource analyses were incorporated into the mainstream theory of financial and capital markets. Parallels between the resources and environmental spheres were discovered: market failure concepts, fundamental to environmental policy, found applications in the resources sector (e.g., fisheries), and renewable resource management concepts and approaches (e.g., waste assimilation capacity) were adopted in environmental policy. To motivate sustainability theory and assessment, there has been a foundational problem shift from restraining human greed to dealing with risk viewed as chance of harm, and a newfound willingness to look beyond stochastic risk to uncertainty, ambiguity, and gross ignorance. Newtonian dynamics, which seeks a stable equilibrium following a shock, gave way to a new dynamics of complexity that valued resilience in the face of shocks, warned of potential for regime shifts, and focused on the possibility of systemic collapse and recovery, perhaps incomplete. New concepts of sustainability (a safe minimum standard of conservation, the precautionary principle, and planetary boundaries) emerged, along with hybrid approaches such as WS-plus which treats weak sustainability (WS) as the default but may impose strong sustainability restrictions on a few essential but threatened resources. The strong sustainability objective has evolved from maintaining baseline flows of resource services to safety defined as minimizing the chance of irreversible collapse. New tools for management and policy (sustainability indicators and downscaled planetary boundaries) have proliferated, and still struggle to keep up with the emerging understanding of complex systems.

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Integrating Sustainability Assessment into Decoupling Analysis: A Focus on the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomerations

Cited by 7 publications

References 64 publications

Review of Quantitative Applications of the Concept of the Water Planetary Boundary at Different Spatial Scales

Review of Quantitative Applications of the Concept of the Water Planetary Boundary at Different Spatial Scales

Evaluation of the Sustainable Development of the Social-Economic-Natural Compound Ecosystem in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Urban Agglomeration (China): Based on Complex Network Analysis

Resource Scarcity and Sustainability—The Shapes Have Shifted but the Stakes Keep Rising

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