Assessment of Urban Ecological Resilience Based on PSR Framework in the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. UER Evaluation Framework Construction
2.3. Methods of Evaluating UER Indicators
2.3.1. Evaluating Morphological Resilience
2.3.2. Evaluating Density Resilience
2.3.3. Evaluating Economic Resilience
2.3.4. Evaluating Comprehensive UER
3. Results
3.1. Morphological Resilience
3.2. Density Resilience
3.3. Economic Resilience
3.4. Comprehensive UER
4. Discussion
4.1. Framework of UER Evaluation
4.2. Evaluation and Spatial Difference of UER Indicators
4.3. Policy Implications for Improving UER
4.4. Limits of This Study
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Indicator | Data | Data Source |
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MR | Land use data | Geographic Data Sharing Infrastructure, Resource and Environment Science and Data Center (http://www.resdc.cn) (accessed on date 14 May 2023) Guangdong Statistical Yearbook 2021 (http://stats.gd.gov.cn/) (accessed on date 14 May 2023) |
DR | Average food consumption; fossil energy consumption; number of permanent residents; various types of land use. | |
ER | Proportion of GDP of tertiary industry (30%); per capita GDP (30%); total retail sales of social consumer goods (15%); education investment (10%); science and technology investment (15%). | Guangdong Statistical Yearbook 2021 (http://stats.gd.gov.cn/) (accessed on date 14 May 2023) |
MR | DR | ER | CER | |||||
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Mean | Std | Mean | Std | Mean | Std | Mean | Std | |
PRD | 1.443 | 0.716 | 0.407 | 0.542 | 0.318 | 0.151 | 0.617 | 0.249 |
Guangzhou | 1.035 | 0.385 | 0.090 | 0.110 | 0.428 | 0.115 | 0.591 | 0.153 |
Shenzhen | 0.874 | 0.414 | 0.017 | 0.014 | 0.418 | 0.202 | 0.556 | 0.302 |
Foshan | 1.177 | 0.690 | 0.328 | 0.307 | 0.278 | 0.084 | 0.470 | 0.155 |
Dongguan | 0.884 | / | 0.041 | / | 0.260 | / | 0.317 | / |
Huizhou | 1.642 | 0.491 | 0.408 | 0.289 | 0.264 | 0.111 | 0.538 | 0.172 |
Zhongshan | 1.131 | / | 0.063 | / | 0.290 | / | 0.392 | / |
Zhuhai | 1.712 | 0.161 | 0.113 | 0.109 | 0.293 | 0.170 | 0.537 | 0.168 |
Jiangmen | 1.814 | 0.261 | 0.756 | 0.538 | 0.244 | 0.052 | 0.653 | 0.188 |
Zhaoqing | 2.369 | 0.861 | 1.227 | 0.605 | 0.198 | 0.115 | 0.927 | 0.256 |
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Zhang, Q.; Huang, T.; Xu, S. Assessment of Urban Ecological Resilience Based on PSR Framework in the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China. Land 2023, 12, 1089. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051089
Zhang Q, Huang T, Xu S. Assessment of Urban Ecological Resilience Based on PSR Framework in the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China. Land. 2023; 12(5):1089. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051089
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Qiongrui, Tao Huang, and Songjun Xu. 2023. "Assessment of Urban Ecological Resilience Based on PSR Framework in the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China" Land 12, no. 5: 1089. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051089
APA StyleZhang, Q., Huang, T., & Xu, S. (2023). Assessment of Urban Ecological Resilience Based on PSR Framework in the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China. Land, 12(5), 1089. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051089