Sustainability Investigation of Resource-Based Cities in Northeastern China

Lu, Chunxia; Xue, Bing; Lu, Chenyu; Wang, Ting; Jiang, Lu; Zhang, Zilong; Ren, Wanxia

doi:10.3390/su8101058

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“…Finally, using a multiple criteria decision method they measured and ranked the sustainability of these cities and with a geographical information system they mapped the sustainability in terms of the spatial effects among these cities [31]. In the same geographical area but with 15 different Sub-Provincial Cities in China, proposed a novel urban green economy evaluation model [32].…”

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A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach

2017

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Urban sustainability is a key factor that must be considered at the local level, however, there are few studies that consider sustainability using the triple bottom line approach and apply it to a large number of cities. In this paper, we develop a sustainability city index based on the triple bottom line using an intellectual capital approach that attempts to solve the negative aspects identified in the main indices proposed in the existing literature, such as the use of: subjective weightings, an arithmetic average or index that is not comparable. Here, we have used information available in the Urban Audit database for 2009. The results for 158 cities in 24 European countries show that the cities with the best positions are in the northern European countries. German cities occupied the best positions in the three dimensions of sustainability, albeit with a slightly worse performance in the social dimension. Moreover, the proposal index is consistent, without redundancy among the variables considered in the three dimensions.

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A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach

2017

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“…For city sustainability evaluation, the selection of sustainable indicators is a key factor influencing the conclusions of the evaluation. The three-pole or three-pillar model that combines social system, economic system, and environment system together are widely used because of its concise and comprehensive features [19][20][21][22][23]. Ding et al indicate that the sustainable development of the city is a harmonious and comprehensive development of the three elements [24].…”

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“…Yi et al develop the deviation maximization weighting method to observe the sustainable levels of 17 cities in Shandong Province, China [11]. Several studies on city sustainability evaluation can be found, and the related literature can be grouped into three categories, i.e., evaluation indicators selection [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28], indicators' weights setting [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43] and information aggregation [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]. A detailed review of the related work is shown in Section 2.…”

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Evaluation of City Sustainability from the Perspective of Behavioral Guidance

Zhou

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High-quality evaluation of city sustainability is an important part of city policy making and development. In this paper, we evaluated the sustainability of the 14 cities in Liaoning, China, from 2015 to 2017. Based on the comprehensive consideration of the interactions among the social, economic and environmental systems, the traditional evaluation indicator system is refined. We incorporate the attitude of decision makers into the evaluation model and propose an objective weighting method by considering data distribution to objectively guide the cities to develop towards the established goals. The empirical research results show that cities located in eastern Liaoning performed the best and in western Liaoning performed the worst. The performances of the 14 cities in Liaoning were not perfect. Both the evaluation values and growth rates of 7 cities (accounting for 50.00%) were lower than the overall average level. The evaluation values of the three systems of the 14 cities were not balanced. The evaluation values of the social, economic and environmental systems fluctuated within the range of [0.0159, 0.0346], [0.0151, 0.0677] and [0.0123, 0.0483], respectively. The social and economic systems of most cities supplied more for the environmental system than for the other system. Cities with higher environmental base rankings offered less supply to other systems. At the same time, we also provide some individualized and concrete suggestions for the guidance of city sustainable development. By comparing the empirical data with the reality, it confirms the credibility of the method and the recommendations in this paper.

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“…Lin et al selected entropy as the basic method used to analyze the sustainability of urban ecosystems in Guangzhou, China [25]. Lu et al used the coefficient-variation method to determine criteria weights in the process of investigating the sustainability of resource-based cities in Northeastern China [26]. Van de Kerk et al constructed a sustainable society index with equal weights to measure sustainable development in the country region [27].…”

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Assessment of City Sustainability Using MCDM with Interdependent Criteria Weight

Zhang

2019

Sustainability

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The Capital Economic Circle is an important planning project in China. Sustainability is a key factor for the long-term development of the Capital Economic Circle. In this paper, we investigated the sustainability of 13 cities in the Capital Economic Circle using three dimensions: economy, society, and environment. The induced ordered weighted averaging (IOWA) operator was used for the aggregation of criteria data. The order-inducing variable in the IOWA operator was measure by the correlation degree of a criterion and all the other criteria. Criteria with larger order-inducing values were given more weight as they provided more support for the development of other criteria. The assessment results indicate that the sustainable development of most of the cities, except for Beijing and Tianjin, is poor, with performance values below 0.5. By comparing the development using three dimensions, it was found that poor performances of economic sustainability were the main reason for this. Additionally, all of the cities showed a sound momentum of sustainable growth even though the sustainable levels of most of the cities were not high. In terms of sustainable development across the three dimensions, the cities had the highest levels of environmental sustainability. The social sustainability of the cities, except for Beijing and Tianjin, was better than their economic sustainability. However, more than half of the cities (accounting for 53.8%) showed a decline in social sustainability, especially for Zhangjiakou, which had the highest degree of decline of 4.00%. Some suggestions have been provided on the basis of the main assessment results. For example, Beijing should invest more in education as well as further easing transportation pressure. There is room for further improvement of the social and environmental sustainability of Tianjin. The other cities should focus on developing economic sustainability as well as preventing the decline of social sustainability.

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Sustainability Investigation of Resource-Based Cities in Northeastern China

Cited by 59 publications

References 39 publications

A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach

A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach

Evaluation of City Sustainability from the Perspective of Behavioral Guidance

Assessment of City Sustainability Using MCDM with Interdependent Criteria Weight

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