An implementation evaluation framework of ecological spatial planning based on multi-dimensional data: A case study in China

Abstract

With the continuous advancement of global urbanization and increasingly serious ecological problems, ecological space protection has gradually become one of the concerns of urban planning. Although some cities worldwide have relatively robust urban planning implementation systems, due to the different planning means and methods of ecological space protection, there lacks a set of standards for the evaluation and inspection of ecological spatial planning implementation, and the traditional evaluation method has some obvious shortcomings, such as low efficiency, poor accuracy, and one-sided comparison. Therefore, the content of this paper includes the following. (1) An evaluation framework for the implementation of ecological spatial planning is proposed, and was constructed from the following four dimensions: ecological index control, spatial form evolution, ecological reserve control, and policy implementation. (2) To verify the operability of the framework, the implementations of the ecological spatial planning of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, three cities in China characterized by rapid urbanization processes, were analyzed and compared. The results show that Guangzhou has the best implementation performance, followed by Beijing with a small gap, while Shanghai lags behind the former two with a large gap. The proposed evaluation framework provides a multi-dimensional and comprehensive evaluation method for the implementation of ecological spatial planning, as well as a certain reference for the evaluation of rapidly urbanizing areas worldwide.