Sustainable Urban Development Capacity Measure—A Case Study in Jiangsu Province, China

Liang, Xuedong; Zhang, Weiwei; Chen, Lei; Deng, Fumin

doi:10.3390/su8030270

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“…For example, during the survey a number of villas were under construction along the sides of the road on the edge of the northern Qin-Ba mountainous area. The largest construction projects among them are the "Qinlingshanshui", "Gaoshanliushui" and "Andeluxiya" villa communities covering a total area of 1.008 km 2 and forming large clusters of properties as shown in Figure 8. However, the occupancy rates of the built-up villas are very low.…”

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“…Human activities including land development ranging from farming, grazing, logging, infrastructure construction, nature conservation and utilization are affecting the environment and biodiversity [1,2]. Land development on the one hand promotes economic growth, improves urban infrastructure and provides accommodation to a growing urban population, etc.…”

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Impacts of Mining and Urbanization on the Qin-Ba Mountainous Environment, China

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Sun

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Abstract:The Qin-Ba Ecological Functional Zone is a component of China's ecological security pattern designed to protect the regional ecosystem and maintain biodiversity. However, due to the impact of mining and urban encroachment, the plight of a sustainable ecosystem in the Qin-Ba mountainous area is deteriorating. This paper has used a remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) to examine the impacts of mining and urban encroachment on the environment in the Qin-Ba mountainous area. The results indicate that the total mined area in 2013 was 22 km 2 and is predicted to escalate. Results also show that the ecosystems in Fengxian County, Shaanxi Province and Baokang County, Hubei Province were most severely affected by mining. Urbanization in the Qin-Ba mountainous area has seen an increase of 85.58 km 2 in urban land use from 2010 to 2013. In addition, infrastructure development including airport construction, tourism resorts and real estate development in the Qin-Ba mountainous area has intensified environmental and biodiversity disturbances since large areas of forest have been cleared. Our results should provide insight and assistance to city planners and government officials in making informed decisions.

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Section: Real Estate Development In Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Impacts of Mining and Urbanization on the Qin-Ba Mountainous Environment, China

Cai

Sun

et al. 2016

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“…Friendly economic growth emphasizes the importance of protecting the environment, and the coordinated economic development of urban agglomeration concerns the development gap among cities in urban agglomerations [17,18]. This paper employs spatial econometric methods and social network analysis in the GIS environment, in order to reveal the impact of environmental regulation on economic growth as well as the spillover effects due to disparity in environmental regulation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Environmental Regulation, Economic Network and Sustainable Growth of Urban Agglomerations in China

Chong

Cheng-lin

2016

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Abstract:In this paper, we examine the influence of environmental regulation on sustainable economic growth from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Our research is twofold. First, we apply a modified NEG (New Economic Geography) model to analyze how environmental regulation influences firms' location choices and cities' sustainable economic growth. Second, we test a spatial econometric model employing panel data of the three largest urban agglomerations in China from 2003 to 2013 to study the relationship between environmental regulation and sustainable economic growth as well as the spillover channels of economic activities. The results reveal a remarkable negative effect of environmental regulation on economic growth. In addition, we find no sufficient evidence to prove the existence of long-term effects of environmental regulation on economic growth in the three urban agglomerations. Furthermore, using different weight matrices to illustrate the different economic networks of the urban agglomeration, we validate the difference in spillover mechanisms across these three urban agglomerations. Specifically, the disparity in environmental regulation acts as a spillover channel for the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, while it is not significant for Jing-Jin-Ji.

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“…The PCA methodology has been used for other authors such as [41]. The environmental dimension (ED) considers four components: pollution; water consumption; waste management and land uses, each measured by a set of indicators ( Table 1).…”

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A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach

2017

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Urban sustainability is a key factor that must be considered at the local level, however, there are few studies that consider sustainability using the triple bottom line approach and apply it to a large number of cities. In this paper, we develop a sustainability city index based on the triple bottom line using an intellectual capital approach that attempts to solve the negative aspects identified in the main indices proposed in the existing literature, such as the use of: subjective weightings, an arithmetic average or index that is not comparable. Here, we have used information available in the Urban Audit database for 2009. The results for 158 cities in 24 European countries show that the cities with the best positions are in the northern European countries. German cities occupied the best positions in the three dimensions of sustainability, albeit with a slightly worse performance in the social dimension. Moreover, the proposal index is consistent, without redundancy among the variables considered in the three dimensions.

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Sustainable Urban Development Capacity Measure—A Case Study in Jiangsu Province, China

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

Impacts of Mining and Urbanization on the Qin-Ba Mountainous Environment, China

Impacts of Mining and Urbanization on the Qin-Ba Mountainous Environment, China

Environmental Regulation, Economic Network and Sustainable Growth of Urban Agglomerations in China

A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach

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