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The 21st century is the critical period that the development strategy of urbanization of China to implement, urbanization's success is a direct impact on the healthy economic and social development of China, but the accelerating urbanization causes a severe challenge to the sustainable development. The eastern coastal regions' economic development is the most rapid one of China, and its urbanization...
Can you imagine the future image of the cities without implementation of sustainable development? Nowadays, sustainable development is one of the most important issues that its social and physical aspects are strongly recommended. Formation of social sustainability depends on sustainable social relations, which in the field of urban design, emphasis on the space as a platform for the formation of...
In modern conditions high quality of a life can be provided only under condition of natural systems preservation and quality of environmentmaintenance. Maintenance of harmonious economic social-natural interaction is offered by the sustainable development concept. A basis of transition to a new trajectory of development is change of public institutes. One of such institutes of functioning of a society...
The purposes of this paper are to analyze sustainable improvement processes for old urban communities and to establish a resident participation mechanism for community improvement. In China, particularly in cities with a long history, there exist many old urban communities with environmental, social and economical problems against the background of rapid urbanization. Although the policies endeavored...
Coastal cities are developing rapidly in recent years, but serious broken eco-environment, irrational marine industrial structure; unsound regulations hinder marine economic development. Therefore, this paper studies the EBM (Ecosystem-based Management) and suggests improving the environment, management and marine industrial structure. These suggestions have important significance all-round coordinated...
China's arable land resource is scarce. To protect the arable land, China carries out a basic farmland protection system. Arable lands with best natural qualities, location conditions and larger areas are protected as basic land. It's specifically stipulated that the basic farmland should be determined in the general land use planning. A certain quality and quantity of basic farmland is not only a...
Waste pickers are very important for the management system of MSW in a city, which is a part of urban management. A good management system of MSW can produce an effective urban management in a city. This paper is a case study of waste pickers and urban management in Beijing, analyzing the characteristics, the impacts and the importance of waste pickers for a city on the base of field investigation...
Aiming at the problem of the low rate of land utilization, poor living conditions in rural residential area, this paper puts forward the concept of new rural residential area construction which of the characteristics such as clear aim, sustainable development, systematic construction, regional differences, urban-rural coordination, and diversity of subjects. It also analyzes the problems and the reasons...
Conflicts among population, resources and environment are becoming increasingly serious with the growth of population, as well as the developments of economy and society. As a result, resource scarcity and environment destruction caused researchers' and decision makers' attentions worldwide. Evaluating the development level of society has been concerned as a promising way to urge it to be resource-...
Global warming has been a serious threat to the sustainable development of human society. Reducing the large-scale emissions of greenhouse gases in the process of economic development and developing low-carbon economy have become necessary requirements for the national economic and social sustainable development. In this paper, combining the status quo of China's economic development with the example...
This paper is concerned mainly on the integration of different points of view, and bridging the gap between urban infrastructure stakeholders and citizens. First, we defined a large set of indicators of sustainability for urban infrastructure (energy, transport, waste disposal, water resources and wastewater treatment). Due to the complex nature of the sustainability paradigm, we take into consideration...
The article used Chenery standard method to measure the level of urbanization and industrialization coordination. Through the comparison of the relationship changes between industrialization and urbanization recent years in Heilongjiang Province, the study found that at present there are some problems in urbanization and industrialization coordination. If these questions can not be effectively resolved...
This paper discusses the situation of interactive development between coastal cities in Liaoning province. The whole paper consists of 4 parts, the background and meaning of the research is introduced at fist; then in the second part, an empirical analysis is made to find out the current situation of interactive development, which is unfolded by three section: resources, industries and markets; after...
In this paper, we focused on the dynamic evaluation of sustainable development capacity for mining cities in China. The indicator system of sustainable development capacity for mining cities was constructed from the aspects of resources, environment, economy and social development. BP neural network method was adopted to dynamically predict the capacity for sustainable development system of Panjin...
As source-separation has been proposed as a sustainable alternative to the current wastewater treatment strategy, the improvement in sustainability associated with such transition needs to be evaluated. However, given the difficulties and uncertainty in both technological and social aspects, such transition will most probably be happening gradually, step by step. Here with a computational case study...
Under the background of global economic crisis, more and more local governments regard city marketing as a significant mode for urban development so as to strengthen urban competitiveness for more external development resources. However, since the social economic system of China is currently in a transitional period, decentralization, marketization and globalization urge the local governments to bear...
Urban domestic sewage treatment industry is a very important part of municipal public utility, and bears some economic characteristics of natural monopoly, quasi-public goods, regional production. The supply out of the modes of investment, operation and charging adopted in traditional urban domestic sewage treatment tends to be more and more incompatible with the demand brought about by speeding-up...
The purpose of this document is to communicate an economic vision for Urban Economics. Solving the environmental problems associated with urbanization requires lateral thinking, or rather vertical thinking. Problems abound when considering the environmental challenges of an increasingly urban society. Among these are a decreasing vegetation cover of the soil, water absorption capacity, shade and temperature...
Water is a sort natural resource that can't be replaced. It is also one of the important supports for the sustainable development of society and economy. According to characteristics of urban water resources system, an optimal allocation modal of water resources is built considering coordinative development among multi-objective and regions such as the production, living and ecology. Taking gray theory...
The imbalance of regional economic development in China is increasingly intensifying in recent years. The gap of regional technological innovation efficiency is the important appearance and deep reason of the regional economic development imbalance. C2R model of DEA and super-efficiency model are used to calculate the technological innovation efficiency of eleven provinces and cities in eastern China...
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