How does regional integration policy affect urban resilience? Evidence from urban agglomeration in China

Jiang, Nana; Jiang, Wei

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2023.107298

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“…The framework aids scholars and policymakers in understanding and implementing resilient strategies across various urban scales. Jiang and Jiang [32] examined how regional integration policies (RIPs) in China impact urban resilience, finding a significant 8.6% improvement overall, particularly in economic aspects, driven by agglomeration and urban innovation, yet with varied effects across dimensions and city types.…”

Section: Urban Resiliencementioning

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Navigating Climate Change Challenges through Smart Resilient Cities: A Comprehensive Assessment Framework

Khatibi,

Wilkinson,

Sweya

et al. 2024

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The rapid increase in the global population is contributing to the urgent challenges we face in ensuring the sustainability of our planet. This demographic shift, which gained momentum in the 1990s, is closely linked to a surge in natural disasters, both in terms of their frequency and severity. The quest for resources and improved quality of life, including the need for housing and essential services, has compounded these challenges. With the world’s population projected to double by 2050, and approximately two-thirds of this population expected to reside in urban areas, we are facing a complex web of interconnected issues that will significantly magnify the impacts of climate change-induced disasters. It is imperative that we build resilient cities capable of withstanding and adapting to these changes. However, the growing complexity of urban services and the necessity for integrated management raise questions about the preparedness of these resilient cities to comprehend and address the multifaceted challenges posed by climate change. In response to these critical concerns, this study endeavors to address the intersection of resilience and climate change. We propose the development of a Smart Resilient City Assessment Framework, comprising two core components: resilience re-evaluation and smartness evaluation. Each component consists of eight essential steps. The culmination of these steps results in a semi-quantitative index that accurately reflects the city’s position regarding resilience and smartness in the face of climate change-related disasters. To demonstrate the framework’s practicality and suitability, we present results from a hypothetical scenario focusing on water supply management, a critical aspect of climate change adaptation. The framework equips city managers with the necessary tools to re-evaluate their cities’ resilience, evaluate their capacity to address climate change-induced challenges, and make informed decisions on integrating resilience and smart solutions to pave the way for a more sustainable and climate-resilient future.

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Section: Urban Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating Climate Change Challenges through Smart Resilient Cities: A Comprehensive Assessment Framework

Khatibi,

Wilkinson,

Sweya

et al. 2024

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“…The second aspect is influencing factors and internal mechanism of regional integration. Scholars have carried out extensive discussions on the impact of regional integration on economic infrastructure, urban resilience and sprawl, green innovation, and income gap [51][52][53][54]. For example, by building a multidimensional infrastructure index, Saima [51] confirmed that the complementarity of infrastructure with institutions and regional integration are factors that play a stimulating role in improving the spillover effects of infrastructure.…”

Section: Regional Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, by building a multidimensional infrastructure index, Saima [51] confirmed that the complementarity of infrastructure with institutions and regional integration are factors that play a stimulating role in improving the spillover effects of infrastructure. An empirical study by Jiang [54] showed that RIPs have a significant influence, improving urban resilience by 8.6%; RIPs could thus enhance economic resilience remarkably without any obvious effect on society and infrastructure. The third aspect is the evaluation of regional integration.…”

Section: Regional Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Regional Integration Policies Enhance the Win–Win Situation of Economic Growth and Environmental Protection? New Evidence for Achieving Carbon Neutrality Goals

Lv,

Zhu,

2024

Sustainability

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In the pursuit of carbon neutrality goals, local governments usually face the dilemma of whether to focus on economic development or environmental protection. Regional integration is a beneficial policy solution to address the challenges inherent to this dilemma. This research considers the expansion of the Urban Economic Coordination Committee in the Yangtze River Delta as a quasi-natural experiment in regional integration. It employs the difference-in-differences model to assess its potential for fostering a win–win situation in terms of economic growth and environmental protection, with the results showing that regional integration has a significantly positive impact on attaining this win–win situation. Inhibiting pollution transfer and promoting green transformation are crucial mechanisms by which regional integration can help strike a balance between economic growth and environmental protection. However, the effects of both regional integration and win–win mechanisms are heterogeneous across cities. The conclusion suggests that the government should accelerate the implementation of regional integration policies across a wider range, recognize and maximize the important role of intermediate mechanisms, and encourage cities to adopt different strategies according to their heterogeneous characteristics, forming a high-level collaborative development pattern.

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“…The abundant research results regarding urban resilience provide theoretical and methodological references for investigating the resilience of urban human settlement systems. On the one hand, a city with a high level of resilience can face sudden disasters without difficulty, while on the other hand, it can quickly adapt to the increasingly complex social and economic environment, thus ensuring the healthy development of the urban system [30]. In recent years, resilient cities have gradually attracted the attention of the Chinese government.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In 2020, China's "14th Five-Year Plan" outlined the construction of resilient cities as a national strategy for sustainable development [31]. At the same time, in order to enhance the resilience of Chinese cities, pilot projects such as adaptive cities and sponge cities have been introduced [30]. However, due to the late start of the concept of resilient cities in China, both its theory and practice are not sufficient at present.…”

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The Spatial and Temporal Evolution Pattern and Influencing Factors of Urban Human Settlement Resilience in Three Provinces of Northeast China

Liu,

Li,

Liu

et al. 2023

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It is widely recognized that urban resilience is one of the core goals of urban development. As an important part of a city, the resilience level of urban human settlements directly affects the development trend of urban resilience. However, at present, research results on the resilience of urban human settlements are very rare, are mainly concentrated in the central region of China, and rarely take into account the economically backward northeastern region. Therefore, in order to better improve the anti-risk ability of the urban human settlement environment system in three provinces of Northeast China, fully implement the strategic goal of “Comprehensive Revitalization of Northeast China”, and achieve high-quality urban development, this paper focuses on 34 prefecture-level cities in three provinces of Northeast China and proposes an urban human settlement resilience evaluation system with 36 indicators in five dimensions, namely, the natural system, human system, housing system, supporting system, and social system. Using the entropy weight method, the Dagum Gini coefficient, and a geographical probe model, the changes in the resilience level of each city from 2005 to 2020 were measured, and the urban living environment was assessed in terms of the adaptability and resilience of the development level in each subsystem based on the temporal and spatial evolution law and its influencing factors. The following conclusions were drawn: (1) The development level of urban human settlement resilience in the three provinces in Northeast China showed an N-shaped development trend from 2005 to 2020, but the regional differences were significant, and the overall spatial pattern was “high in the south and low in the north”. (2) In terms of the overall difference, the overall difference in urban human settlement resilience in the three northeastern provinces of China was small: the inter-regional difference was the main source of the difference, and the intra-regional difference was the secondary source. The regional differences were in the order of Heilongjiang Province > Liaoning Province > Jilin Province, indicating that Jilin Province had the smallest difference and that the resilience level of urban human settlements does not show a balanced development trend. In terms of the average Gini coefficient between regions, the order of difference was Liaoning Province–Heilongjiang Province > Jilin Province–Liaoning Province > Jilin Province–Heilongjiang Province, indicating that the difference between Liaoning Province and Heilongjiang Province was the most significant. (3) The “natural system”, “human system”, “living system”, “supporting system”, and “social system” had significant spatial and temporal heterogeneity and significantly affected the resilience level of urban human settlements in the three provinces in Northeast China. Among them, the “social system” has always been the main factor affecting the resilience level of urban human settlements.

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How does regional integration policy affect urban resilience? Evidence from urban agglomeration in China

Cited by 25 publications

References 74 publications

Navigating Climate Change Challenges through Smart Resilient Cities: A Comprehensive Assessment Framework

Navigating Climate Change Challenges through Smart Resilient Cities: A Comprehensive Assessment Framework

Can Regional Integration Policies Enhance the Win–Win Situation of Economic Growth and Environmental Protection? New Evidence for Achieving Carbon Neutrality Goals

The Spatial and Temporal Evolution Pattern and Influencing Factors of Urban Human Settlement Resilience in Three Provinces of Northeast China

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