Evaluating urban resource and environment carrying capacity by using an innovative indicator system based on eco-civiliz
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Evaluating urban resource and environment carrying capacity by using an innovative indicator system based on eco-civilization—a case study of Guiyang Tao Peng 1,2 & Hongwei Deng 1 Received: 6 May 2020 / Accepted: 27 September 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract A city’s sustainable development should occur via harmonious development of urban resource and environment carrying capacity (URECC) and economic growth. By following laws of harmonious development of man, nature, and society, ecological civilization refers to the sum total of material, spiritual, and institutional achievements made by mankind in promoting social, economic, and cultural development. It is an important way of realizing sustained development in China, which has been taken as an important way and method for solving the conflict between environmental problems and resources. In this study, an indicator system of URECC was built based on ecological civilization, which included 18 indicators chosen from 5 kinds of carrying capacities, which are water, land, atmospheric environment, energy, and solid waste. Then, the built index system was applied in a case study to evaluate URECC. Results showed that the indicator system could not only reveal the development tendency of URECC but also reveal changing situations of original bearing capacity, allowing the administration to take appropriate measures to improve URECC. Therefore, it can be guaranteed that economic and social development does not exceed URECC. It provides a good basis for building a more scientific, accurate, and comprehensive future assessment indicator system and also provides guidance and reference for rapid urban development. Consequently, this method not only addresses deficiencies in the existing researches but also provides a new method for assessing URECC. Keywords Urban resource and environment carrying capacity (URECC) . An innovative indicator system . Ecological civilization . Guiyang
Introduction In the last few decades, China has undergone phenomenal economic development and rapid transformation from agriculture to industry and from rural to urban areas. Therefore, as a developing country who owns the most population in the world, now China is confronting with many fateful environmental challenges. They exert a huge impact on human health and life quality. The worst geo-environmental problems are
Responsible Editor: Philippe Garrigues * Hongwei Deng [email protected] 1
School of Resources & Safety Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, People’s Republic of China
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Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang 550003, Guizhou, People’s Republic of China
the exhaustion of drinking water resources, underground water contamination, excessive use of existing farmland, and geological hazards induced by human activities (Wu et al. 2011; Dai et al. 2019). In China, the average coverage of forest for each person is only one in six and personal average freshwater resource is only one in four of the glo
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