Urban-Rural Dependencies and Opportunities to Design Nature-Based Solutions for Resilience in Europe and China

Banzhaf, Ellen; Anderson, Sally; Grandin, Gwendoline; Hardiman, R. T.; Jensen, Anne; Jones, Laurence; Knopp, Julius; Levin, Gregor; Russel, Duncan; Wu, Wanben; Yang, Jun; Zandersen, Marianne

doi:10.3390/land11040480

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“…The focus on long-term built-up areas also provides insight into the status and recovery of ES in urban centers that are not subject to urban sprawl or in the post-urbanization phase, and, as revealed in China, that there is potential to retrospectively improve GI provision at large scale within existing urban areas. For example, the values and distributional balance of GI and ES in long-term built-up areas in Beijing and Shanghai, China, improved between 2010 and 2020, indicating a return to green in these cities, which is a direct outcome of government policies [1].…”

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“…The higher the population density, the more important are the supplies of services, and this is especially the case in urbanized regions. ES provided by the hinterlands surrounding cities, and within cities by green and blue spaces, both have benefits for the urban population [1]. However, rapid urbanization and population growth can easily lead to the exploitation and degradation of ecosystems [2], witnessed by findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment [3,4], which showed most ES having been in decline over the past years due to human activities [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

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A European-Chinese Exploration: Part 2—Urban Ecosystem Service Patterns, Processes, and Contributions to Environmental Equity under Different Scenarios

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Urban expansion and ecological restoration policies can simultaneously affect land-cover changes and further affect ecosystem services (ES). However, it is unclear whether and to what extent the distribution and equity of urban ES are influenced by the stage of urban development and government policies. This study aims to assess the quantity and equity of ES under different scenarios in cites of China and Europe. Firstly, we used the Conversion of Land Use and its Effects at Small regional extent (CLUE-S) model to simulate future land cover under three scenarios: business-as-usual (BAU), a market-liberal scenario (MLS), and an ecological protection scenario (EPS). Then using ecosystem service model approaches and the landscape analysis, the dynamics of green infrastructure (GI) fraction and connectivity, carbon sequestration, and PM2.5 removal were further evaluated. The results show that: (1) over the past 20 years, Chinese cities have experienced dramatic changes in land cover and ES relative to European cities. (2) Two metropolises in China, Shanghai and Beijing have experienced an increase in the fraction and connectivity of GI and ES in the long-term built-up areas between 2010 and 2020. (3) EPS scenarios are not only effective in increasing the quantity of ES but also in improving the equity of ES distribution. The proposed framework as well as the results may provide important guidance for future urban planning and sustainable city development.

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A European-Chinese Exploration: Part 2—Urban Ecosystem Service Patterns, Processes, and Contributions to Environmental Equity under Different Scenarios

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“…The study of cultural landscape heritage has attracted extensive attention from scholars all over the world. David Jacques called the 1990s “the rise of cultural landscape” [ 6 ]. The distribution of word culture landscape heritage in various regions is extremely uneven.…”

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“…As cultural landscape heritage becomes part of the world’s heritage, its effective management has been causing concerns worldwide.In 1969, L. McHarg published Design with Nature, in which he discusses environmental issues from the perspectives of nature, history and humanity, and explains how natural procedure guides land development [ 6 ]. After decades of work, various countries have combined the regional protection of cultural heritage with the national and local development of culture and ecology, society, and other aspects, and they have also rationally set up relevant cultural heritage reserves.…”

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Sustainable Development Efficiency of Cultural Landscape Heritage in Urban Fringe Based on GIS-DEA-MI, a Case Study of Wuhan, China

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Liu

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Cultural landscape heritage refers to the rare and irreplaceable cultural landscapes recognized by UNESCO and the World Heritage Committee. It is recognized as a “common works of nature and human beings” of outstanding significance and universal value, and is a type of world heritage. Dueto construction, land isincreasingly limited in urban and rural areasin the process of urbanization, and cultural landscape heritage faces a huge threat, especially larger culturallandscapeheritagelocated at the edgesof cities. However, most of the existing studies have mainly focused on the material protection of heritage but have not paid enough attention to the non-material aspects of heritage sites, failing to reveal the inseparable nature of heritage and land. Therefore, this study takes sustainable development efficiency as its analysis tool, examines two pieces of cultural landscape heritage (the Panlongcheng site and the Tomb of the King of the Ming Dynasty) in the urban edge area of Wuhan, China as examples, innovates and establishes a multidimensional evaluation method based on the GIS-DEA-Ml model, and compares the dynamic changes of the spatial development efficiency and non-spatial development efficiency of the above two cultural landscape heritage cases. The results show that: both the spatial development efficiency and non-spatial development efficiency of Panlongcheng from 2010 to 2019 are significantly higher than that of the Tomb. This method makes up for the deficiency of traditional subjective qualitative analysis. It can be used to study the development efficiency of cultural landscape heritage more objectively and comprehensively, and promote the overall sustainable development of material and intangible cultural heritage. It can provide the basis for early decision-making and post-implementation evaluation for the preservation and utilization of cultural landscape heritage under the background of urban renewal.

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“…The concept of urban–rural resilience [ 15 ] focuses on the urban–rural dependencies and partnerships to enhance resilience [ 16 ] and also suits the need for urban–rural integration. Land use data are used in this study to represent the urban–rural system [ 17 ].…”

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Urbanization Impact on Regional Sustainable Development: Through the Lens of Urban-Rural Resilience

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Zhu

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The urban–rural system is an economically, socially, and environmentally interlinked space, which requires the integration of industry, space, and population. To achieve sustainable and coordinated development between urban and rural systems, dynamic land use change within the urban–rural system and the ecological and social consequences need to be clarified. This study uses system resilience to evaluate such an impact and explores the impact of land use change, especially land conversion induced by urbanization on regional development through the lens of urban–rural resilience. The empirical case is based on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration (BTHUA) in China from 2000 to 2020 when there was rapid urbanization in this region. The results show that along with urbanization in the BTHUA, urban–rural resilience is high in urban core areas and low in peripheral areas. From the urban core to the rural outskirts, there is a general trend that comprehensive resilience decreases with decreased social resilience and increased ecological resilience in this region. Specifically, at the city level, comprehensive resilience decreases sharply from the urban center to its 3–5 km buffer zone and then remains relatively stable in the rural regions. A similar trend goes for social resilience at the city level, while ecological resilience increases sharply from the urban center to its 1–3 km buffer zone, and then remains relatively stable in the rural regions in this region, except for cities in the west and south of Hebei. This study contributes to the conceptualization and measurement of urban–rural resilience in the urban–rural system with empirical findings revealing the impact of rapid urbanization on urban–rural resilience over the last twenty years in the BTHUA in China. In addition, the spatial heterogeneity results could be used for policy reference to make targeted resilience strategies in the study region.

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Urban-Rural Dependencies and Opportunities to Design Nature-Based Solutions for Resilience in Europe and China

Cited by 12 publications

References 77 publications

A European-Chinese Exploration: Part 2—Urban Ecosystem Service Patterns, Processes, and Contributions to Environmental Equity under Different Scenarios

A European-Chinese Exploration: Part 2—Urban Ecosystem Service Patterns, Processes, and Contributions to Environmental Equity under Different Scenarios

Sustainable Development Efficiency of Cultural Landscape Heritage in Urban Fringe Based on GIS-DEA-MI, a Case Study of Wuhan, China

Urbanization Impact on Regional Sustainable Development: Through the Lens of Urban-Rural Resilience

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