Catalyzing sustainable urban transformations towards smarter, healthier cities through urban ecological infrastructure, regenerative development, eco towns and regional prosperity

Zhang, Xiaoling; Hes, Dominique; Wu, Yuzhe; Hafkamp, Wim; Lu, Weisheng; Bayülken, Boğaçhan; Schnitzer, Hans; Li, Feng

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.02.038

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“…Improving the efficiency of land use would be a better choice for future land use planning. New urbanization development zones should maintain a certain proportion of ecological land, which can facilitate the functionality, sustainability and vitality of urban ecosystems (Zhang et al, 2016). To control the proportion of each land use type, ecological land protection policies in China, such as setting the "ecological control line" (Hong et al, 2017) should also be implemented in Zengcheng.…”

Section: Linking Land Use Strategies and Ecological Engineering Measures With Multiple Essmentioning

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Spatiotemporal assessment and trade-offs of multiple ecosystem services based on land use changes in Zengcheng, China

Sun

2017

Science of The Total Environment

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Driven by rapid urbanization, land use change has become a significant factor influencing ecosystem services (ESs). To support the decision-making process of city planners and policy makers, assessing the spatiotemporal changes associated with multiple ESs is vital. In this study, we developed a general structure to assess the changes of multiple ESs in Zengcheng, China. A new index also was developed to measure the comprehensive ecosystem service (CES). Trade-offs of various ESs were analyzed by using correlation analysis. We then designed four alternate scenarios to explore the optimal land use strategies to increase the CES value and minimize trade-offs among various ESs. Results demonstrated that rapid expansion of built-up land and traffic land resulted in a decrease of CES in Zengcheng from 2003 to 2013. Although the water supply, water purification, and vegetable and fruit production services increased, the climate regulation, soil conservation, biodiversity protection, recreation opportunity and grain production services decreased during the ten-year period. Government should implement land use policies and ecological engineering measures to improve soil conservation in the northern region; recreation opportunity in the central region; and carbon storage, water purification, biodiversity protection and recreation opportunity in the southern region. Among all alternative scenarios, woodland buffer and soil conservation scenarios exhibit the highest CES values, indicating that policies such as the "Ecological corridor construction" project and the "Grain for Green" project should be implemented. However, a caveat is that these policies improve the ESs at the expense of food production due to significant trade-off relationships. To minimize the trade-offs, a more sustainable intensification of agriculture should be adopted to increase food production without decreasing other ESs or occupying additional land. The land use strategies and ecological engineering measures in this study can provide a reliable reference for sustainable development of other urbanized regions in China.

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Section: Linking Land Use Strategies and Ecological Engineering Measures With Multiple Essmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatiotemporal assessment and trade-offs of multiple ecosystem services based on land use changes in Zengcheng, China

Sun

2017

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Today, the smart transport concepts seem to pay more attention towards offering ecological [8][9][10][11] and economic development [12][13][14][15] and quality of living products using the abilities of innovative technologies [16][17][18][19][20]-perhaps as, in the close future, these are more gainful and remarkable tasks to deliver [21]. The concept of smart transport has been recognized by Smith et al [22], where a critical level of participation among its experts and community can lead to approval of a desirable future place to make joint and shared means of action.…”

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Smart Cities in Turkey: Approaches, Advances and Applications with Greater Consideration for Future Urban Transport Development

Bıyık

2019

Energies

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The smart city transport concept is viewed as a future vision aiming to undertake investigations on the urban planning process and to construct policy-pathways for achieving future targets. Therefore, this paper sets out three visions for the year 2035 which bring about a radical change in the level of green transport systems (often called walking, cycling, and public transport) in Turkish urban areas. A participatory visioning technique was structured according to a three-stage technique: (i) Extensive online comprehensive survey, in which potential transport measures were researched for their relevance in promoting smart transport systems in future Turkish urban areas; (ii) semi-structured interviews, where transport strategy suggestions were developed in the context of the possible imaginary urban areas and their associated contextual description of the imaginary urban areas for each vision; (iii) participatory workshops, where an innovative method was developed to explore various creative future choices and alternatives. Overall, this paper indicates that the content of the future smart transport visions was reasonable, but such visions need a considerable degree of consensus and radical approaches for tackling them. The findings offer invaluable insights to researchers inquiring about the smart transport field, and policy-makers considering applying those into practice in their local urban areas.

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“…At present, cities are facing complicated pressures and expectations, and the relationships among the different systems of residents, ecology, economy, society, and politics must be re-conceptualized and re-structured. To respond to the development and expectation of urban sustainable development, there is a need to rely more on the characteristics and opportunities of urban life [3].…”

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A Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework for Urban Sustainable Development

Wang

Peng

2020

Mathematics

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With the rapid transformations of living environments, urban sustainable development has become an important global issue for urban growth and management. In order to effectively implement urban sustainable development, it is necessary to establish an operational action model based on its nature. This study first clarifies the core value of urban quality of life (QOL), and proposes the corresponding concept of Life-City. A variety of factors may affect the content of Life-City, and when assessing the objectives of sustainable development, there are uncertain properties and value judgments. Therefore, Life-City evaluation is a fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis (FMCDA) problem. This study constructs the dimensions and the possible impact factors for urban QOL development. The fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) is employed to screen evaluation criteria and develop the overall evaluation framework. In order to effectively convert the subjective and perceptual issues in the framework into objective and quantitative processing, this study adopts the extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP (EAFAHP) to aggregate experts' comments as empirical evaluation. The research results can convert the abstract concept of sustainability to the evaluation of Life-City specific operation, and serve as guidance for self-examination of current status and future policy development.Keywords: quality of life (QOL); Life-City; fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis (FMCDA); fuzzy Delphi method (FDM); fuzzy extent analytic hierarchy process (FEAHP)

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Catalyzing sustainable urban transformations towards smarter, healthier cities through urban ecological infrastructure, regenerative development, eco towns and regional prosperity

Cited by 19 publications

References 10 publications

Spatiotemporal assessment and trade-offs of multiple ecosystem services based on land use changes in Zengcheng, China

Spatiotemporal assessment and trade-offs of multiple ecosystem services based on land use changes in Zengcheng, China

Smart Cities in Turkey: Approaches, Advances and Applications with Greater Consideration for Future Urban Transport Development

A Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework for Urban Sustainable Development

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