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The comprehensive evaluation of China’s urbanization and effects on resources and environment
Received date: 2009-07-08
Revised date: 2009-09-10
Online published: 2010-02-15
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 40871071; No.40771207
This paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system for the urbanization level in China in terms of four aspects of urbanization connotation: population, economy, society, and land. A comprehensive measurement is carried out for the Chinese urbanization between 1981 and 2006 based on the Entropy method. The results show that the comprehensive level of urbanization in China has a continuous increase with the major features of economic growth and a rapid evolution of the geographical landscape, followed by population urbanization and then social urbanization of health care standard; the distinguished evolutional characteristics can also be found in each of the subsystems. The integrated evolution of urbanization has a profound effect on the resources, energy and the environment, making the land resources and energy security situation under severe pressure. The environment pressure is also increased further.
Key words： urbanization; comprehensive evaluation; resources; environment; Entropy method; China
CHEN Mingxing, LU Dadao, ZHA Liangsong . The comprehensive evaluation of China’s urbanization and effects on resources and environment[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2010 , 20(1) : 17 -30 . DOI: 10.1007/s11442-010-0017-0
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