Abstract
City disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness are two representative indicators used to assess the safety of human settlements in China’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). Traditional research on SDGs mainly concentrated at large-scale spatial level, such as global level or national level. It brings unclear significance to the implementation of SDGs in the county-level. The goal of this paper is to find a new calculation method to apply the index of urban disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness to the evaluation of county-level areas. A localization of county-level city disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness based on Deqing County’s situation was carried out. With quantification and projections of local data, the assessments of city disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness have completed. The evaluation showed that city disaster resilience is maintained at a low level, while indicators of urban cleanliness are lower than standards. The prediction of urban per capita environmental impact index based on Grey Time-Series Prediction Model was finished. The forecast showed that the urban per capita impact indicators in the next three years have not exceeded the standard line. The two indicators used to assess the safety of human settlements were consistent with the sustainable development of urban settlement. Partial results of this research were reported as a “county sample” at the first UN Geographic Information Conference held in Deqing in 2018.
Highlights
Natural ecosystems were once considered an inexhaustible resource [1], but with the advent of industrial societies, this traditional cognition has been challenged
To better promote the realization of Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), China has released its national plan for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Through the integration and analysis of the relevant SDG indicators, the research based on city disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness will be further deepened, and a more complete, systematic and targeted sustainable development construction scheme will be obtained
Summary
Natural ecosystems were once considered an inexhaustible resource [1], but with the advent of industrial societies, this traditional cognition has been challenged. Many problems emerged because of industrial expansion and urbanization, especially in developing countries [2]. Thriving urbanization in those countries brought environmental pollution and ecological damage. The sustainable development of urban settlement has attracted a lot of attention [3,4]. The Agenda is a global action plan to seek sustainability in all countries [6], guided by the 17 SDGs, managing all aspects of the economy, society and the environment [7,8,9]. In the 2030 Agenda, human settlements are illustrated as an important indicator of the ability of cities to sustain their development
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