Evolutionary trends of urban expansion and its sustainable development: Evidence from 80 representative cities in the belt and road initiative region

Wei, Guoen; He, Bao‐Jie; Sun, Pingjun; Liu, Yaobin; Li, Ruzi; Ouyang, Xiao; Luo, Kang; Li, Shuoshuo

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104353

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“…Numerous scholars have extensively explored the social, economic, and environmental consequences of urban land expansion from a global perspective [37,38]. Wei et al [39] focused on cities within the "Belt and Road" regions experiencing rapid urbanization. Their investigation delves into the evolutionary patterns of urban expansion, adopting a perspective grounded in global land optimization management and sustainable development.…”

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Examining the Decoupling of Economic Growth with Land Expansion and Carbon Emissions in Zhejiang Province, China

Li,

Lu,

et al. 2023

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Coordinating the interrelationships among economic growth, land resource utilization, and carbon emissions is critical for promoting high-quality economic growth and achieving sustainable urban progress. According to the gravity model and the Tapio decoupling model, this study examined the decoupling relationships of economic growth with land expansion and carbon emissions in Zhejiang Province during the period of 2002–2017. We found that (1) The economic gravity center and the built-up area gravity center generally shifted towards the northwest; however, the carbon emission gravity center initially shifted towards the northwest and then towards the southwest. The spatial coupling between the economic gravity center and the built-up area gravity center exhibited a tendency of ‘first weakening, then strengthening, and last weakening’, whereas the spatial coupling between the economic gravity center and the carbon emission gravity center displayed a tendency of ‘first strengthening and then weakening’. (2) The decoupling of economic growth and land expansion is weak at every stage with effective controls on land expansion. However, in recent years, the phenomenon of ‘expansive negative decoupling’ has become prevalent in counties and cities surrounding the central city. The decoupling of economic growth and carbon emissions steadily increased at each stage, first ‘expansive coupling and expansive negative decoupling’, then ‘weak decoupling’, and finally ‘strong decoupling’. The urban low-carbon transformation effect is remarkable. (3) Zhejiang Province should prioritize addressing the regional imbalance and state instability in the decoupling relationships. It is crucial to comprehensively consider the natural resource endowment, macro-policy factors, and urban development orientation of counties and cities while implementing differentiated planning and control strategies, which will promote regional coordination and comprehensive, high-quality development in all areas.

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Examining the Decoupling of Economic Growth with Land Expansion and Carbon Emissions in Zhejiang Province, China

Li,

Lu,

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“…PM 2.5 pollution is generally not restricted by any boundaries. It may come from local pollution sources or it may be transmitted from pollution sources in other regions [40,47,48]. Therefore, Global Moran's I is used to assess whether there is a significant spatial correlation in PM 2.5 concentrations within the YREB.…”

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“…Existing research showed that point estimation would lead to parameter estimation errors, so they proposed a partial differential method to make up for it, decomposing the estimation results into local effects, spillover effects, and total effects. Taking SPDM as an example [8,37,48], it can be transformed into (I n − ρW)Y = i n µ 0 + βX + θWX + ε, and order P(W) = (I n − ρW) −1 , and Q m (W) = P(W) × (I m β m + θ m W), which translates to the following:…”

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Multi-Scale Analysis of PM2.5 Concentrations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: Investigating the Combined Impact of Natural and Human Factors

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Liu

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Air pollutants, primarily PM2.5, have inflicted significant harm on public health and sustainable urban development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB). Previous studies often neglected the coordinated measurement of PM2.5 human and natural factors in this area. Therefore, this paper focuses on the YREB. Using a geographic information system (GIS) platform, along with remote sensing and statistical data spanning from 2000 to 2020, this study employs spatial analysis to uncover the spatial-temporal characteristics of PM2.5 and its spatial agglomeration patterns. Furthermore, this study further employs the spatial panel Durbin model to investigate the natural and anthropogenic factors driving PM2.5 concentrations across multiple scales. The analysis of the results reveals an “M”-shaped change trend in PM2.5 concentrations within the YREB. PM2.5 concentrations exhibit significant spatial agglomeration characteristics, whereby most urban agglomerations are high-pollution areas. Moreover, the changes in PM2.5 concentrations are jointly influenced by several factors, including the secondary industry, urban built-up area, population density, annual precipitation, and NDVI. Furthermore, the dominant factors influencing PM2.5 concentrations in the three major urban agglomerations exhibit both similarities and differences. In addition, for effective governance coordination across regions, policymakers should diligently consider both the shared predominant factors and the varying factors specific to each region in the future. This study expands the research content of watershed PM2.5 collaborative governance, and further provides practical support for other watershed environmental governance and urban sustainable management.

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“…Due to the current circumstances of uncontrolled urban growth and climatic emergency [1,2], the demand for a more accurate understanding of underground reality in urban environments has become a major challenge [3]. Not only does this challenge require the provision of useful tools for the design of new constructions, but it also needs to focus on certain major issues such as sustainability, metropolitan planning, and preventive conservation of built heritage.…”

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Evaluation of Open Geotechnical Knowledge in Urban Environments for 3D Modelling of the City of Seville (Spain)

Soriano-Cuesta,

Romero-Hernández,

Mascort-Albea

et al. 2023

Remote Sensing

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The need for sustainable urban growth management and preventive conservation of built elements constitute the key factors in today’s increasing demand for the better understanding of subsoil. This information, mainly available from geotechnical surveys, can be integrated into spatial databases to produce operational models. Aiming to generate strategies that enable the visualisation of underground properties in highly anthropised environments, the following four-phase methodology has been proposed: (a) Gathering of geotechnical data; (b) Spatial and statistical analysis; (c) Database design; (d) Generation of 2D and 3D models. Following the aforementioned criteria and using open sources, a spatial dataset of 650 points located within the historical centre of Seville (Spain) has been developed. This urban area is characterised by the heterogeneous distribution of its soil layers and their geotechnical properties. The results show that the application of this method enables a prompt and efficient display of the distribution of geotechnical layers in urban and metropolitan environments, by considering the variations in their mechanical properties. This simplified approach therefore establishes a new starting point for the development of predictive strategies based on approaches of a more complex nature that facilitate the analysis of the interactions between subsoil, buildings, and infrastructures.

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Evolutionary trends of urban expansion and its sustainable development: Evidence from 80 representative cities in the belt and road initiative region

Cited by 40 publications

References 48 publications

Examining the Decoupling of Economic Growth with Land Expansion and Carbon Emissions in Zhejiang Province, China

Examining the Decoupling of Economic Growth with Land Expansion and Carbon Emissions in Zhejiang Province, China

Multi-Scale Analysis of PM2.5 Concentrations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: Investigating the Combined Impact of Natural and Human Factors

Evaluation of Open Geotechnical Knowledge in Urban Environments for 3D Modelling of the City of Seville (Spain)

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