The sustainability of China's major mining cities

Yu, Jing; Zhang, Zhongjun; Zhou, Yifan

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2007.10.001

Cited by 54 publications

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“…Mineral resource-based cities are those whose development mainly depends on the exploitation of mineral resources, and mineral resource-based industries are the predominant part of their economic systems (Yu et al, 2008). Most of these cities are still at the stage of mining and producing primary mineral products (Cun et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Improving resource utilization efficiency in China's mineral resource-based cities: A case study of Chengde, Hebei province

Jia

et al. 2015

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Improving resource utilization efficiency in China's mineral resource-based cities: A case study of Chengde, Hebei province

Jia

et al. 2015

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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“…Because the ultimate goal of the transition of resource-based cities is to achieve sustainable development, we develop the concept of sustainability to evaluate the urban transition performance of resource-based cities. Early examples of sustainability assessment indexes include sustainable economic welfare, ecosystem well-being, human well-being and ecological footprint [22]. In 1997, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was launched with the goal of "enhancing the quality, rigor and utility of sustainability reporting".…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some empirical research from various regional scales has been performed. Yu et al measured the sustainability of China's major mining cities and contrasted them with other types of cities [22]. Wang et al and Dong et al researched the sustainable development of resource-based cities in China at the provincial level and individual city level, respectively [23,24].…”

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The Urban Transition Performance of Resource-Based Cities in Northeast China

Tan

Zhang

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:Resource-based cities face unique challenges when undergoing urban transitions because their non-renewable resources will eventually be exhausted. In this article, we introduce a new method of evaluating the urban transition performance of resource-based cities from economic, social and eco-environmental perspectives. A total of 19 resource-based cities in Northeast China are studied from 2003 to 2012. The results show that resource-based cities in Jilin and Liaoning provinces performed better than those in Heilongjiang province. Liaoyuan, Songyuan and Baishan were ranked as the top three resource-based cities; and Jixi, Yichun and Heihe were ranked last. Multi-resource and petroleum resource-based cities performed better than coal and forestry resource-based cities. We also analyzed the factors influencing urban transition performance using the method of the geographic detector. We found that capital input, road density and location advantage had the greatest effects on urban transition performance, followed by urban scale, remaining resources and the level of sustainable development; supporting policies and labor input had the smallest effects. Based on these insights, we have formulated several recommendations to facilitate urban transitions in China's resource-based cities.

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“…Hashimoto et al (2009) classified the material inputs of an economic society into four categories; this framework captures the key sustainable issues in the industry, but all of the mining and minerals issues must be converted into sustainable development indicators. There is an absence of literature on sustainable development indicators (SDIs) and economic studies on the construction mining industry in China (Basu et al, 2006;Yu et al, 2008;Nikolaou and Evangelinos, 2010;Tseng, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%