DOI: 10.14264/uql.2017.408
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Enhancing the Understanding of Urban Systems for Sustainability Transition: A Study of Urban Environmental Management in the Natural Resource-Based Industrial City of Jinchang, China

Abstract: Rapid world urbanisation calls attention to the issue of sustainable urban development. Urbanisation problems are especially pressing in the industrial cities of China, where environmental conditions have deteriorated with rapid economic and urban development. This study is an exploration of sustainability in an urban context using the natural resource-based industrial city of Jinchang in N.W.China as a case study. The main objective of this study has been to gain a better understanding of urban systems and po… Show more

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“…The JC government has also been making active efforts to control and reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture. The consumption amounts of fertilizer in JC have decreased yearly, and the amount of fertilizer application per mu (1 mu = 666.667 m 2 ) in the whole city decreased from 0.12 t/mu in 2015 to 0.09 t/mu in 2019 [28,42]. Furthermore, the JC government has actively carried out recycling work for waste agricultural plastic film in recent years, implemented the Demonstration County Project of Waste Agricultural Plastic Film Reutilization, and built nine recycling and processing enterprises and seventeen agricultural film recycling outlets.…”
Section: Analysis Of Carbon Indicatorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The JC government has also been making active efforts to control and reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture. The consumption amounts of fertilizer in JC have decreased yearly, and the amount of fertilizer application per mu (1 mu = 666.667 m 2 ) in the whole city decreased from 0.12 t/mu in 2015 to 0.09 t/mu in 2019 [28,42]. Furthermore, the JC government has actively carried out recycling work for waste agricultural plastic film in recent years, implemented the Demonstration County Project of Waste Agricultural Plastic Film Reutilization, and built nine recycling and processing enterprises and seventeen agricultural film recycling outlets.…”
Section: Analysis Of Carbon Indicatorsmentioning
confidence: 99%