Learning from best practices in sustainable urbanization

Ochoa, J. Jorge; Tan, Yongtao; Qian, Queena K.; Shen, Liyin; Moreno, Eduardo López

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2018.05.013

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“…According to UNDESA (2015), the proportion of urban population in the world has increased from 29% in 1950 to 55% in 2015. It has been projected that this figure will reach to 70% by 2050, indicating that 6.3 billion people will be living in cities (Ochoa et al, 2018).…”

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A lessons mining system for searching references to support decision making towards sustainable urbanization

Wang

Shen

Ren

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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The recurrence of similar problems caused by human errors in urbanization process is common throughout the world. However, the knowledge learnt from these problems should become lessons as references for decision-making to avoid the recurrence of these problems, thus the results of urbanization are sustainable. It is considered of imperative importance to incorporate the lessons experienced into the decisionmaking process in a way that can help foresee the potential problems and take proper measures for addressing the problems. There is little existing study on how previous lessons are mined and incorporated in foreseeing the potential problems in future. The lack of this mining mechanism presents a significant barrier for decision makers to learn from the existing lessons thus to have references of how to make better decisions for future urbanization practices. This paper presents a Lessons Mining System (LMS) to assist in mining lessons experienced from previous practices. The system includes five components, namely, Lessonscase Representation , Lessons-case Store, Lessons-case Retrieval, Lessons-case Application, and Lessons-case Update. LMS can facilitate decision makers to understand what potential problems might occur from their current actions by referring to the lessons experienced previously in similar circumstances. This understanding can help decision makers take preventive measures to mitigate the potential problems. In other words, the use of LMS can send alarming messages to decision makers about what possible problematic consequence may occur thus they can modify their actions before too late. The establishment of LMS is based on Casebased Reasoning (CBR) theory and the similarity matching principles. A demonstration of Yangwu Town is presented to show the application of the system, and the result shows that the lessons mined can provide valuable references for the government of Yangwu Town to improve their decisionmaking quality.

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A lessons mining system for searching references to support decision making towards sustainable urbanization

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Ren

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“…Wang, Hui, Choguill, & Jia, ). Moreover, the balanced and strategic provision of public services in the urbanization process is an essential component for successfully achieving urban sustainability goals (Ochoa, Tan, Qian, Shen, & Moreno, ). Challenges to sustainability within the people‐oriented urbanization include manpower constraints and investments in technology advancement, which put pressure on the financing capacity of the people‐oriented urbanization to meet demands (Wong et al, ).…”

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“…However, investment in PPPs should not be too concentrated on one or more requirement sectors that have a high level of priority. The success of investment actions in one social requirement sector is highly dependent on the actions in other social requirement sectors (Ochoa et al, ). For instance, a single‐targeted intervention of a best practice focused on providing health care to local residents contributes to improving their quality of life.…”

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Evaluating the regional social sustainability contribution of public‐private partnerships in China: The development of an indicator system

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Zhang

Tan

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Sustainable Development

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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been increasingly adopted in China. Sustainability of PPPs has become a priority for a sustainable development of PPPs. Most prior studies focus on sustainable implementation of PPP projects. Few research efforts have been done to examine the impacts of PPPs to sustainability from an external perspective and a more macro geographical scale. Meanwhile, the social aspect of the sustainability of PPPs has not been widely studied. Therefore, this study aims to propose a social sustainability contribution evaluation system (SSCES) for PPPs to evaluate PPPs' contribution to regional social sustainability at the institutional level. An indicator system of the SSCES for PPPs was developed, which included 8 requirements for socially sustainable development and 33 social sustainability indicators. The weights of indicators were determined by using the analytic hierarchy process method. The results indicate that, in the context of China, promoting peopleoriented urbanization in PPPs can help enhance regional social sustainability. This study provides a useful evaluation tool for various stakeholders to evaluate the sustainability of PPPs from an institutional level, especially for local governments to review current PPP polices and make improvements.

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“…At the same time, along with the deepening of the concept of global sustainable development, foreign scholars began to study the interaction between urbanization and ecological environment from different perspectives, and proposed new ideas that keep pace with the times. For example, Zhongjie Lin, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, proposed ecocity urbanism by comparing the origins, policies, and measures of eco-city construction between China and Japan in the Asian region [5]; J. Jorge Ochoa thinks, by analyzing the successful construction of 185 cities around the world under the guidance of the theory of sustainable development, it is clearly pointed out that community participation, urban volume, education and work innovation and other factors play an important role in urbanization and ecological environmental protection [6].…”

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Research on Coordination Relationship between Ecological Environment and Urbanization in Kunming Based on Coupling Model

Xia¹,

Yan²,

Li³

2019

IJESD

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Along with the process of globalization, how to coordinate the development of urbanization and ecological environment has become an important issue for the current academic circles. Kunming is located in the southwestern part of China and belongs to the plateau lakeside city and the ecological environment is fragile. Taking the data of urbanization and ecological construction in Kunming from 2007 to 2016 as a sample, this paper designs the Kunming urbanization and ecological environment evaluation index system based on the situation of Kunming City, and adopts the entropy weight method and the linear weighting method to evaluate the urbanization of Kunming. The research results show that the urbanization process of Kunming City climbed up, indicating that Kunming's urban construction achievements were remarkable from 2007 to 2016. However, the ecological environment of Kunming is not optimistic, showing a fluctuating trend. The coordination degree between the two systems has experienced three stages of antagonism, integration and coordination. How to protect the ecological environments has become a key issue that must be faced and solved in the current urban development of Kunming.

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Learning from best practices in sustainable urbanization

Cited by 68 publications

References 26 publications

A lessons mining system for searching references to support decision making towards sustainable urbanization

A lessons mining system for searching references to support decision making towards sustainable urbanization

Evaluating the regional social sustainability contribution of public‐private partnerships in China: The development of an indicator system

Research on Coordination Relationship between Ecological Environment and Urbanization in Kunming Based on Coupling Model

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