Sustainable Urbanization Synergy Degree Measures—A Case Study in Henan Province, China

Jiao, Leilei; Deng, Fumin; Liang, Xuedong

doi:10.3390/su10010009

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“…The order degree not only depends on the number of order parameters, but it is also closely related to their combination (Qiao et al, 2017). In this paper, the linear weighted summation method (Jiao et al, 2018) is used to calculate the order degree of the subsystem, which can be written as Eq. ( 2): μ i (e i ) is the system order degree of subsystem S i .…”

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Impacts of the integral development of agriculture and tourism on agricultural eco-efficiency: a case study of two river basins in China

Wang

Zhou

Xie

et al. 2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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The integral development of agriculture and tourism heavily depends on natural resources, especially agricultural resources, and it also may contribute to the sustainability of agriculture. The sustainability of agriculture is usually measured by the agricultural eco-efficiency. The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate the impact of the agriculture and tourism integration on agricultural eco-efficiency, so as to reflect the role of the agriculture and tourism integration on promoting agricultural sustainability. Applying panel data of 19 provinces in Yangtze River Basin and Yellow River Basin in China from 2008 to 2019, this paper uses a PSTR model to demonstrate the impact of agriculture and tourism integration on agricultural eco-efficiency and its mechanisms. It is found that in the study area, the integration of agriculture and tourism can contribute to improvements in agricultural eco-efficiency, and when levels of integration are high, the promotional effect is enhanced. However, impacts vary among different regions to some extent. In terms of influencing mechanisms, inputs of agricultural labor, sown crop area, effective irrigation area and other factors decrease with continuous improvements of integration. The input of pesticides, fertilizers and other factors does not decrease in the initial stage of integration but undergoes a rapid decrease after crossing a threshold value. And it demonstrates that the integration of agriculture and tourism is beneficial for improving the agricultural eco-efficiency, so that it will contribute to agricultural sustainability. Meanwhile, this paper offers a new research perspective for discovering effects of agriculture and tourism integration, providing implications for formulating regional policies for the integration.

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Impacts of the integral development of agriculture and tourism on agricultural eco-efficiency: a case study of two river basins in China

Wang

Zhou

Xie

et al. 2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Qiao et al regarded the urban water system landscape as a composite ecosystem composed of environment, economy, and society, found the key factors that affect the synergy of various subsystems based on synergy theory [19]. Jiao et al studied the synergy of sustainable urbanization in the same process [20]. Cui took the supply and demand coordinated development mechanism of a regional logistics system as the research goal, and analyzed the coordinated development mechanism of the regional logistics supply and demand coupling system [21].…”

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Synergy Degree Evaluation of Container Multimodal Transport System

Fang

Zhi-ya

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Logistics activities are an important source of energy consumption and environmental issues. Research conclusions and practical experience show that promoting the development of container multimodal transport is an effective way to reduce the level of carbon footprint. The key to influencing the development of container multimodal transport lies in the cooperation of all participants and links (modes of transport, transport businesses). Evaluating the synergy degree is a key step in this development process. This paper takes the whole process of container multimodal transportation as the research perspective, analyzes the operation process, and treats the process as a production system composed of four subsystems: facilities and equipment, organizational management, business operations, and information interactions. Through in-depth interviews and an analysis of the academic literature and policy documents, we establish a synergy degree evaluation index system and measurement model of container multimodal transport based on synergy theory and case studies. The research results are consistent with the actual situation. From 2015 to 2018, the synergy of container multimodal transport system of China's G port developed slowly, but generally moved in a more orderly direction.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1487 2 of 26 of cargo transportation; by 2020, the volume of port railway collection and distribution and container multimodal transport will increase significantly. Multimodal container operation is an important economic activity and plays a vital role in transportation and low-carbon development.In actual operation, logistics companies tend to choose a single mode of transport when conditions permit. The reason is that the participants and links (modes of transport, transport businesses) are not coordinated, due to the following: (1) There is a lack of effective connection between infrastructures. For example, many ports have no dedicated railway lines, which greatly increases transportation costs.(2) There is no uniform standard for equipment. The size standards of road trucks are different from the standards of railway loading units, and the conversion is very troublesome, requiring loading and unloading, resulting in increased costs. (3) The devices are not completely intelligent. The development of special railway wagons, railway dual-use trailers, and river-sea combined carriers is lagging, and the connection efficiency is low. (4) There is a lack of multimodal transport integration service providers. Due to the lack of a large logistics network platform and effective deployment, small transportation companies are blind, and there is often repeated transportation and wasting of resources. (5) Information docking and sharing are difficult. There is no uniform information exchange standard and format between enterprises, and each enterprise is an information island. In addition, there is a lack of effective connection between multiple modes of transport, and the costs of short barges, reloading, loading and unloading...

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“…By 2014, half the world’s people were living in towns and cities, and it is predicted that 66% of the world’s population will live in urban areas till 2050 (United Nations, 2014). Sustainable urbanization includes many aspects, such as maintaining biodiversity and environment, increasing social benefits, efficient use of land, developing economy, and so on (Gan et al, 2017; Jiao et al, 2018; Tan et al, 2016), and sustainable cities should be those succeeding in these dimensions. Therefore, it is important for us to measure whether cities develop these dimensions harmoniously and coordinatively to enhance the effectiveness of sustainable urbanization of the cities efficiently and comprehensively.…”

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Coordinated Interactions of Sustainable Urbanization Dimensions: Case Study in Hunan, China

Geng

Zhang

2021

Sage Open

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Within the sustainable urbanization framework, two dimensions, namely, social urbanization and environmental urbanization, have complex coordinated interactions. To better understand the coordinated interaction status between the two dimensions of sustainable urbanization, an empirical study was carried out in the 14 cities of Hunan Province, China, from 2011 to 2019. This study establishes an integrated measurement framework, uses the coupling coordination degree model, information entropy weight analysis approach, and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution method to analyze the development degrees and coordinated interaction degrees of the two dimensions. The results show that the quality and efficiency of leisure facilities and water use have the greatest impacts on the coordinated interactions between the two dimensions. Besides, the development degrees of social urbanization and environmental urbanization are not consistent. What is more, the spatial noncorrelation of the coordinated interaction status demonstrates that the “high-quality development” tactics aiming to promote balanced development of dimensions among cities in China is feasible. Furthermore, corresponding suggestions are proposed, providing references for governments’ planning and decision-making processes.

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Sustainable Urbanization Synergy Degree Measures—A Case Study in Henan Province, China

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

Impacts of the integral development of agriculture and tourism on agricultural eco-efficiency: a case study of two river basins in China

Impacts of the integral development of agriculture and tourism on agricultural eco-efficiency: a case study of two river basins in China

Synergy Degree Evaluation of Container Multimodal Transport System

Coordinated Interactions of Sustainable Urbanization Dimensions: Case Study in Hunan, China

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