TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring sustainable urbanization in China: A case study of the coastal Liaoning area
AU - Liu, Shiwei
AU - Zhang, Pingyu
AU - Jiang, Xiaoli
AU - Lo, Kevin
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41071108); the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-342); the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences “Grain security situation simulation study for northeast of China”; and the National Key Technologies R&D Program (2008BAH31B06).
Publisher copyright:
© 2012, Springer Japan
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - The global urbanization process poses a serious challenge to achieving sustainable development. The significance of sustainable urbanization has been increasingly appreciated, yet, very little empirical evidence has been provided for this prospect. In this paper, we use the Human Development Index and the ecological footprint to measure the sustainability of the coastal Liaoning area. We then use the quadrant map approach to determine the relationship between sustainability and urbanization. The results show that the coastal area has made progress in sustainable urbanization in the social dimension. Improvement in the environmental dimension has been dynamic. Our results indicate that sustainable urbanization is a dynamic, multi-dimensional progress that requires regular monitoring and reevaluation. This paper also highlights the importance of choosing more complete indicators for measuring the sustainability of urbanization, as no single model or measurement is sufficient for quantifying the different dimensions of sustainability.
AB - The global urbanization process poses a serious challenge to achieving sustainable development. The significance of sustainable urbanization has been increasingly appreciated, yet, very little empirical evidence has been provided for this prospect. In this paper, we use the Human Development Index and the ecological footprint to measure the sustainability of the coastal Liaoning area. We then use the quadrant map approach to determine the relationship between sustainability and urbanization. The results show that the coastal area has made progress in sustainable urbanization in the social dimension. Improvement in the environmental dimension has been dynamic. Our results indicate that sustainable urbanization is a dynamic, multi-dimensional progress that requires regular monitoring and reevaluation. This paper also highlights the importance of choosing more complete indicators for measuring the sustainability of urbanization, as no single model or measurement is sufficient for quantifying the different dimensions of sustainability.
KW - Sustainable urbanization
KW - Urbanization velocity
KW - Sustainability velocity
KW - Ecological footprint
KW - Human Development Index
KW - Northeast China
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U2 - 10.1007/s11625-012-0193-1
DO - 10.1007/s11625-012-0193-1
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1862-4065
VL - 8
SP - 585
EP - 594
JO - Sustainability Science
JF - Sustainability Science
IS - 4
ER -