Integrating Sustainability Assessment into Decoupling Analysis: A Focus on the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomerations
| العنوان: | Integrating Sustainability Assessment into Decoupling Analysis: A Focus on the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomerations |
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| المؤلفون: | Jiaqi Zhang, Jinqun Wu, Yijia Huang |
| المصدر: | Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7872, p 7872 (2020) Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 19 |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Urban agglomeration, Geography, Planning and Development, the Yangtze River Delta, lcsh:TJ807-830, lcsh:Renewable energy sources, urbanization, 010501 environmental sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 01 natural sciences, decoupling, Urbanization, Planetary boundaries, environmental sustainability, Environmental planning, lcsh:Environmental sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Sustainable development, lcsh:GE1-350, Land use, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants, footprint, boundary, lcsh:TD194-195, Greenhouse gas, Sustainability, Environmental science, Decoupling (electronics) |
| الوصف: | Rapid urbanization has led to a growing number of environmental challenges in large parts of China, where the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) urban agglomerations serve as a typical example. To evaluate the relationship between environmental sustainability gaps and urbanization in 26 cities of the YRD, this study revisited the environmental sustainability assessment (ESA) by combining the metrics of environmental footprints and planetary boundaries at the city level, and then integrated the footprint-boundary ESA framework into decoupling analysis. The results demonstrated considerable spatiotemporal heterogeneity in the environmental sustainability of water use, land use, carbon emissions, nitrogen emissions, phosphorus emissions and PM2.5 emissions across the YRD cities during the study period 2007&ndash 2017. Decoupling analysis revealed a positive sign that more than half of the 26 cities had achieved the decoupling of each category of environmental sustainability gaps from urbanization since 2014, especially for nitrogen and phosphorus emissions. On the basis of ESA and decoupling analysis, all the cities were categorized into six patterns, for which the optimal pathways towards sustainable development were discussed in depth. Our study will assist policy makers in formulating more tangible and differentiated policies to achieve decoupling between environmental sustainability gaps and urbanization. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2071-1050 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::7cbd2dc541d5b205f664b503fcdb0950 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/19/7872 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....7cbd2dc541d5b205f664b503fcdb0950 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20711050 |
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