Abstract
As urban land use is facing more and more severe sustainability challenges, it is essential to make effective and scientific evaluation on relationship between urban land use and economic development. With a series of indicators that drawn from previous literatures and data collected from Wuhan Metropolitan Area, this paper evaluated the degree of harmony, which characterizes the level of sustainable in the eight cities. By methods of cluster analysis and grey rational analysis, degree of harmony was categorized and calculated. Results revealed that harmony degree of different cities had certain gaps which were continually widening and can be divided into four categories. Relative scores on harmony of them are almost consistency with the category. It is found that the difference on land use put significant on the degree of harmony. Some other characteristics including city administrative status, comparative regional advantages also have a large impact. These findings lead further suggestions and recommendations for governments to design relevant policy.
Highlights
Urbanization promotes rapid social and economic development, and leads to many problems, such as resource shortages and environmental pollution (Savard, Clergeau & Mennechez, 2000; Van Herzele & Wiedemann, 2003)
With a series of indicators that drawn from previous literatures and data collected from Wuhan Metropolitan Area, this paper evaluated the degree of harmony, which characterizes the level of sustainable in the eight cities
This paper aims to analyze the degree of harmony in the relationship between land use and economic development in Wuhan Metropolitan Area by establishing an alternative indicator framework
Summary
Urbanization promotes rapid social and economic development, and leads to many problems, such as resource shortages and environmental pollution (Savard, Clergeau & Mennechez, 2000; Van Herzele & Wiedemann, 2003). This paper aims to analyze the degree of harmony in the relationship between land use and economic development in Wuhan Metropolitan Area by establishing an alternative indicator framework. Based on the four indicators drawn from the previous literature, we further defined the harmonious relationship between land use and economic development, to gauge the extent of situation in Wuhan Metropolitan Area. Wuhan Metropolitan Area is located in Hubei province and in the middle of the Yangtze River basin, whose population is concentrated in urban areas, with better opportunities for economic development and strong infrastructure. It contains Wuhan along with eight cities, including Huangshi, Ezhou, Huanggang, Xiaogan, Xianning, Xiantao, Qianjiang and Tianmen.
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