Wuhan, China and Pittsburgh, USA: Urban Environmental Health Past, Present, and Future

Ali, Robbie; Zhao, Hong

doi:10.1007/s10393-008-0172-2

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“…The participants of the Wuhan study were mainly composed of university students and workers either from enterprise or from public and governmental organizations and were comprised of mainly young people (91% under 45 years). This represents the age structure of the general population in Wuhan (e.g., 0 -14 (9.98%); 15 -64 (81.89%); 65 (8.13%)) [21]. Such results were also highlighted in a study of public perception in the Jin-Jing-Ji region in China [19].…”

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Public Perception Survey Study on Air Quality Issues in Wuhan, China

Liu¹,

Kobernus²,

Hong³

2017

JEP

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In 2013, a survey on air quality (AQ) was conducted in Wuhan, China. The aim was to investigate public awareness of air pollution, and its epidemiological effect. This survey targeted both suburban and central city regions of Wuhan city, between August and December of 2013, where it engaged 1225 participants. Approximately 65% perceived AQ in Wuhan to be "bad". Over 95% recognized a causal association between air pollution and human health. About 65% were unaware of any action taken by the government to mitigate the air pollution situation. 84% indicated that the government should shut down highly polluting enterprises, while 95% expressed willingness to reduce private use of vehicles if required. The results demonstrate that the citizens of Wuhan are concerned about air pollution issues, and agree that improving AQ is the obligation of all citizens. Further, they called for concrete actions to improve AQ. The survey emphasized the need for better education and more activities to raise environmental awareness. The innovative aspects of this survey were the exploration of participants' perceptions of AQ issues and the survey results may influence local government to impose stricter regulations, and to develop more effective programs involving citizens.

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confidence: 66%

Public Perception Survey Study on Air Quality Issues in Wuhan, China

Liu¹,

Kobernus²,

Hong³

2017

JEP

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“…JCQ is defined as the area affected by construction in urban areas and has been collated and reported by NBSC (Socioeconomic Statistical Yearbook for China's Counties and Cities) since the early 1980s (Deng et al, 2010). However, the expanding urban area is mostly around the periphery of the city center, while other cities or towns in urban agglomeration lag behind to a great extent (Ali & Zhao, 2008;Wang et al, 2013). Moreover, there is a substantial proportion of floating population in urban areas with rural Hukou in Wuhan in the context of dual-track household registration system, though not as striking as the rural migration in Beijing and Guangzhou (Chan, 2010a(Chan, ,b, 2012.…”

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Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Zeng

An-lu

2016

Habitat International

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a b s t r a c tUrbanization in China has been closely associated with urban sprawl, rural migration and the role of government has been more direct and powerful in setting it in motion. In 2014, the New Urbanization Planning in China has been released in which the development of urban agglomeration and smallmedium cities has been highlighted. In this context, we decompose urbanization into populationoriented and land-centered archetypes and devise spatial models in multiple strategies embedded with different spatial relations to unfold the underlying driving forces using Wuhan agglomeration as the case. In addition to the identification of major driving forces which are gross domestic product (GDP), income, fixed asset investment and the transportation construction, the major contributions of our study lie in the gauge on administrative influence, to be more specific, the status of urban district, city-level county and county, through incorporating different spatial weight matrix in different scenarios in spatial modeling. It found out that 1) both non-agricultural population and urban land exhibit significant spatial autocorrelation and the superiority in the city center is evident; 2) socio-economic development and transportation construction significantly influence urbanization whereas the personal income and fixed asset investment accounting for a large proportion being the most powerful factors; 3) different administrative status at the county level is an unneglectable factor and urban area has higher probability to expand when urban district is adjacent to county-level city; 4) the magnitude of this administrative status influence generally grows to a certain level and then reaches to a plateau. These findings provide theoretical basis for understanding the administrative dimension in new urbanization and have important policy implications on administrative adjustment and urban agglomeration.

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“…It has also experienced a rapid economic development and GDP has reached 69.24 billion Euro in 2010, over 30 times than that in 1990. Over hundreds of years, because of its geographic position at the confluence of two large rivers and in central China, the city is a major hub of trade and transportation surrounded by farmland and forests [32].…”

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A Multi-Level and Multi-Dimensional Measuring on Urban Sprawl: A Case Study in Wuhan Metropolitan Area, Central China

Zeng

Cui

2014

Sustainability

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Chinese cities are experiencing rapid urban expansion and being transformed into more dispersed urban form which necessitate the quantification of fine-scale intra-urban characteristics for sustainable urban development. We propose an integrated multi-level and multi-dimensional method to characterize urban sprawl and apply it to Wuhan, a typical metropolitan area in central China from 1996 to 2006. The specifications of levels are parcel at micro-level, district at meso-level and metropolitan area at macro-level. The measurements are implemented in seven dimensions: composition, configuration, gradient, density, proximity, accessibility and dynamics. Metrics are assigned to each dimension and innovative metrics such as derived contagion index, distance-based correlation coefficient and weighted centroid migration are defined to quantify the sprawling process. This bottom-up approach is capable of exploring spatio-temporal variation of urban growth at finer scales, capturing the multi-dimensional features of urban sprawl and providing policy implications for authorities at different levels. The results reveal that industrial sites and built-up land for special use are the most scattered and randomly distributed land use types, parcels and districts at the urban fringe present higher fragmentation than those in the urban core areas and urban expansion is largely enforced by assigning development zones. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2014, 6 3572

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Wuhan, China and Pittsburgh, USA: Urban Environmental Health Past, Present, and Future

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

Public Perception Survey Study on Air Quality Issues in Wuhan, China

Public Perception Survey Study on Air Quality Issues in Wuhan, China

Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

A Multi-Level and Multi-Dimensional Measuring on Urban Sprawl: A Case Study in Wuhan Metropolitan Area, Central China

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