An integrated sustainable development approach to modeling the eco-environmental effects from urbanization

Liu, Yaobin; Chengsheng, Yao; Wang, Guixin; Bao, Shuming

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.04.004

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“…In 2003, Kalnay and Cai published a study entitled "Impact of Urbanization and Land-Use Change on Climate", also in Nature, which argued that the contribution of urbanization and land-use change to global climate change over the past century was 0.35°C. Liu et al (2011) also found a close correlation between temperature rises in cities and the speed of urbanization. In addition, rapid urbanization has been found to pose an enormous threat to forests, grasslands, wetlands and other natural ecosystems (Falcucci et al, 2007;Ficetola et al, 2010;Magura et al, 2004;Oliver et al, 2014;Ortega-Álvarez et al, 2009;Pekin et al, 2012;Pereira et al, 2010;.…”

Section: Interactive Coupling Between Urbanization and Climatementioning

confidence: 87%

“…On the basis of this, interactive coupling laws for urbanization and the eco-environment, including coupling fission law, dynamic hierarchical law, random fluctuation law, non-linear collaborative law, threshold law and warning law were summarized (Fang and Yang, 2006). Liu et al used collaborative learning and grey relational analysis to construct correlation degree and coupling degree models, which revealed the major factors in the coupling between urbanization and the eco-environment in Chinese provinces, and analyzed the spatiotemporal layout of the coupling degree between urbanization and the eco-environment in China Liu et al, 2011).…”

Section: Dynamic and Control Mechanisms And Phased Coupling Laws Of Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Filatova et al systematically summarized the theories and conceptual models of coupled social-ecological systems, reviewed changes to, and the evolution of, models and emphasized regime shifts in statistical modeling, system dynamics, and equilibrium and agent-based modeling (Filatova et al, 2015;Polhill et al, 2016). Liu et al (2011) used an inclusive sustainable development model, interpretive structural model and grey relational technology to evaluate the coupling relationship between urbanization and the eco-environment, and used systems dynamics and artificial neural networks to simulate future environmental changes. Wang et al (2014b), meanwhile, used a double exponential curve model and took the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration as an example to verify the interactive coupling relationship between urbanization and eco-environmental systems.…”

Section: Quantitative Modeling Of Interactive Coupling Between Urbanimentioning

confidence: 99%

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International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

2016

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Global urbanization is exerting severe stress and having far-reaching impacts on the eco-environment, and yet there exists a complex non-linear coupling relationship between the two. Research on the interactive coupling effect between urbanization and the eco-environment will be a popular area of study and frontier in international earth system science and sustainability science in the next 10 years, while also being a high-priority research topic of particular interest to international organizations. This paper systematically collates and summarizes the international progress made in research on interactive coupling theory, coupling relationships, coupling mechanisms, coupling laws, coupling thresholds, coupling models and coupling optimization decision support systems. The research shows that urbanization and eco-environment interactive coupling theories include the Kuznets curve theory, telecoupling theory, planetary boundaries theory, footprint family theory and urban metabolism theory; most research on interactive coupling relationships is concerned with single-element coupling relationships, such as those between urbanization and water, land, atmosphere, climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity; the majority of research on interactive coupling mechanisms and laws focuses on five research paradigms, including coupled human and nature systems, complex social-ecological systems, urban ecosystems, social-economic-natural complex ecosystems, and urbanization development and eco-environment constraint ring; the majority of interactive coupling simulations use STIRPAT models, coupling degree models, multi-agent system models and big data urban computer models; and research has been carried out on urbanization and eco-environment coupling thresholds, coercing risk and optimal decision support systems. An objective evaluation of progress in international research on interactive coupling between urbanization and the eco-environment suggests that there are six main research focal points and six areas lacking research: a lot of research exists on macroscopic coupling effects, with little research on urban agglomeration and scale coupling effects; considerable research exists on sin-

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Section: Interactive Coupling Between Urbanization and Climatementioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Dynamic and Control Mechanisms And Phased Coupling Laws Of Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Quantitative Modeling Of Interactive Coupling Between Urbanimentioning

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“…Given limited agglomeration effects for single cities as well as imbalanced spatial distribution of resources and environmental conditions, Chinese governments emphasize the significance and urgency of taking urban agglomeration (UA) as a main form of new-type urbanization [1,7]. Urbanization in UA areas will have a profound impact on economic growth Instead, only a few scholars paid attention to the constraining effect of the environmental change on urbanization [24,25]. There was even less literature [15,22] focusing on the bidirectional relationship between U and E. As pointed out in the literature, such as Dinda [31] and Fang [2], this bidirectional influence mechanism between the eco-environment and urbanization has been ignored by most studies.…”

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Identifying Spatiotemporal Interactions between Urbanization and Eco-Environment in the Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, China

Tong

Tang

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:Urban agglomeration has become a crucial topic in order for the Chinese government to promote new-type urbanization in China, and its urbanization will greatly affect China's eco-environment. Existing literature on bidirectional influence between urbanization and eco-environment from the perspective of urban agglomeration is, however, limited. This study establishes a conceptual framework to identify bidirectional relationships between urbanization and eco-environment in urban agglomerations. After evaluating urbanization level and eco-environment quality for each city in an urban agglomeration, this framework determines key interaction factors, and employs a global regression approach to quantify the coercing effects of urbanization on eco-environment and constraining effects of eco-environment on urbanization. Spatial heterogeneity of bidirectional interactions is then examined using local regression, represented by geographically weighted regression. The case study in the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River from 2000 to 2015 indicated the existence of bidirectional interactions and coercing threat that was stronger than constraining pressure in this region. The coercion that urbanization posed on the eco-environment began to vary in space significantly from 2010, whereas the constraint of eco-environment on urbanization was spatially stationary. This study will help policy-makers to develop sustainable policies to balance urban development and eco-environment conservation.

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“…Evaluation indicator system approaches are another big part of the methodologies. Although several studies have quantified environmental impacts based on similar indicator system (Li et al 2009;Liu et al 2011;Li et al 2012), the adoption of suitable indicators and reliable methods still requires attention to provide a basis for a more accurate understanding of environmental effects from urbanization. Moreover, studies that have integrated the sustainable development approach to modeling environmental effects from urbanization with investigation of the coupling model of coordination between urbanization and the environment have generally focused on individual cities or regions (Liu et al 2011;Li et al 2012).…”

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Environmental Impacts of China’s Urbanization from 2000 to 2010 and Management Implications

Lan

Crittenden

et al. 2015

Environmental Management

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Rapid urbanization in China during the first decade of the twenty first century has brought about profound environmental changes at citywide and regional scales. In this paper, we present a comprehensive set of indicators and put forward a new evaluation method for measuring environmental impacts of urbanization from 2000 to 2010. We compared these impacts among 286 cities in mainland China and found that the overall quantity of pollutant discharge decreased as cities became more economically developed during the years 2000-2010. However, larger and denser cities, and wealthier cities in the eastern part of China tended to have larger quantities of pollutant discharge, resource consumption, and changes in land use (i.e., expansion of the built environment). The discharge increase occurred despite these cities having increased their investment in pollution control and construction of municipal environmental infrastructure. The negative impact from the intensity of pollutant discharge (i.e., discharge per unit of economic output) was generally less in more developed cities, although this was not always the case. Some cities, such as resource-based cities and old industrial cities, had both larger quantities of pollutant discharge and greater pollution intensity compared to other types of cities, indicating that environmental impacts did not necessarily decrease with increasing urbanization. The results of this study provide a promising basis for decisionmaking to reduce the impacts for different types of cities in the decades to come.

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An integrated sustainable development approach to modeling the eco-environmental effects from urbanization

Cited by 127 publications

References 31 publications

International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

Identifying Spatiotemporal Interactions between Urbanization and Eco-Environment in the Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, China

Environmental Impacts of China’s Urbanization from 2000 to 2010 and Management Implications

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