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Urban Ecological Security and Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2023) | Viewed by 3845

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Xiangrong Wang

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Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
Interests: ecological security assessment; ecological and environmental assessment and planning; climate change and ecosystem response; ecosystem restoration; environmental sustainability
Dr. Yujing Xie

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Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
Interests: geographic information systems; remote sensing; urban planning; eco-tourism; urban ecology; machine learning; spatial statistics and big data
Dr. Lei Fang

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Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
Interests: geographic information systems; remote sensing; urban planning; eco-tourism; urban ecology; machine learning; spatial statistics and big data

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The process of urbanization worldwide has been accelerating in recent decades. The United Nations estimates that the average rate of urbanization in the world's developed countries will increase greatly in 2050. At the same time, under the background of global climate change, the rapid urbanization seen worldwide will have to face the severe challenges related to environmental pollution, ecosystem degradation, ecological security, climate change and sustainability. The theme of this Special Issue of Sustainability is Urban Ecological Security and Sustainability, based on the proceedings of three previous sessions of the International Workshop on between scholars and researchers from Chinese and American Universities, Institutes and Governmental Agencies, etc. The proceedings also present the important results of China’s National 13th Five-year Plan Key R&D Project entitled Research and Demonstration of Key Technologies of Ecological Security Guarantee for Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration. It will be of great significance to explore the ecological security path and the security countermeasures in this Special Issue, which will cover the following principal subtopics: (1) Urban eco-security assessment: technology and methodology; (2) urban eco-planning and sustainability; (3) climate change and ecosystem response; (4) eco-restoration and resilient cities; (5) big data collection and application for sustainability; (6) policy and governance for urban ecological sustainability.

You are welcome to submit your manuscripts, in order to contribute and share your academic achievements and insights!

Prof. Dr. Xiangrong Wang
Dr. Yujing Xie
Dr. Lei Fang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • urban eco-security
  • urbanization
  • urban ecological sustainability
  • ecosystem restoration
  • ecological and environmental planning
  • climate change and resilient city

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A CLUMondo Model-Based Multi-Scenario Land-Use Change Simulation in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China
by Yanhua Zhao, De Su, Yang Bao, Wei Yang and Yibo Sun
Sustainability 2022, 14(22), 15336; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215336 - 18 Nov 2022
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Land-use changes have profound effects on both socio-economic development and the environment. As a result, to optimize land-use planning and management, models are often employed to identify land-use patterns and their associated driving forces. In this work, physical and socioeconomic factors within the [...] Read more.
Land-use changes have profound effects on both socio-economic development and the environment. As a result, to optimize land-use planning and management, models are often employed to identify land-use patterns and their associated driving forces. In this work, physical and socioeconomic factors within the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration (YRDUA) from 2000 to 2015 were identified, integrated, and used as the foundation for a CLUMondo model. Subsequently, the Markov model and the CLUMondo model were combined to predict land-use changes in 2035. Natural growth (NG), economic development (ED), ecological protection (EP), and coordinated social and economic development (CSE) scenarios were set according to the land-use date in the assessment. Results showed that: (1) From 2000 to 2015, urban land increased by 8139.5 km2 (3.93%), and the paddy field decreased by 7315.8 km2 (8.78%). The Kappa coefficient of the CLUMondo model was 0.86, indicating that this model can be used to predict the land-use changes of the YRDUA. (2) When this trend was used to simulate landscape patterns in 2035, the land-use structure and landscape patterns varied among the four simulated urban development scenarios. Specifically, urban land increased by 47.6% (NG), 39.6% (ED), 32.9% (EP), and 23.2% (CSE). The paddy field was still the primary landscape, with 35.85% NG, 36.95% ED, 37.01% EP, and 36.96% CSE. Furthermore, under all four scenarios, the landscape pattern tended to simplify and fragment, while connectivity and equilibrium diminished. The results provided herein are intended to elucidate the law of urban agglomeration development and aid in promoting urban sustainable development. Full article
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Maintenance and Optimization of Ecological Space in Natural Resource-Advantaged Cities: A Case Study in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province
by Yan Liu and Meichen Ding
Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 11952; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141911952 - 22 Sep 2022
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Natural resources are the material basis of urban construction, as well as a crucial factor that determines the livability and employment opportunities of a given city. Under the traditional development model, cities rely on their natural resources to develop their regional economy. However, [...] Read more.
Natural resources are the material basis of urban construction, as well as a crucial factor that determines the livability and employment opportunities of a given city. Under the traditional development model, cities rely on their natural resources to develop their regional economy. However, this is always accompanied by environmental impacts. Maintaining and optimizing the ecological environment of such cities during economic development is not only related to the sustainable development and transformation of resource-based cities, but also affects the overall status of sustainable urbanization and construction. This study takes Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, as a typical case to analyze the characteristics and status of urban ecological space. We explored a positioning and optimization strategy based on the proper management of urban ecological space systems in the future. The morphological spatial pattern analysis method (MSPA) and the minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model were used to identify the urban ecological sources and extract the potential ecological corridors between the ecological sources. Ecological corridors were constructed by quantitatively analyzing their importance with a gravity model. Our findings indicated that the ecological area and the construction land area in Zhangzhou present a significant opposition. We identified 18 important core areas and 21 important corridors, which are concentrated in the west and north of Zhangzhou. Based on these findings, our suggestion is to maintain the status quo of urban ecology, set up ecological rest spaces around important roads, and increase the number of green facilities in the city. Full article
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