Abstract
In this paper, we analyzed a fresh conception of the urban comprehensive carrying capacity in the context of ecosystem, economy and social dimensions. Based on the AHP methodology, the author constructs the urban comprehensive carrying capacity hierarchical structure model for the chosen ten regions in Inner Mongolia, China. The findings are a better reflection that the urban comprehensive carrying capacity is a complex chaos interconnected with the ecological, economic and social throughputs of the development-oriented regions, and it is an entangled combination of three self-organizing non-equilibrium systems with all concepts fundamental to sustainable urbanization process.
Highlights
Urbanization is a typical epoch evolved along with industrial and technological revolutions, and a process of clusters of production factors and culture charms, leads to the explicit and ineradicable changes in society associated with economic structure, space layout of rural and urban areas, living styles and behaviors of the new inhabitants, and the development of large-scale coordinated activities etc
(2) The urban comprehensive carrying capacity hierarchical structure model is constructed, which outlines the key indicators in three differentiated layers and pioneers in the research perceptions
The pace of the economy development of a specific urban region must be considered for an urban comprehensive carrying capacity
Summary
Urbanization is a typical epoch evolved along with industrial and technological revolutions, and a process of clusters of production factors and culture charms, leads to the explicit and ineradicable changes in society associated with economic structure, space layout of rural and urban areas, living styles and behaviors of the new inhabitants, and the development of large-scale coordinated activities etc. The urbanization rate ascends to 46.6%, averaged at 0.9% since 2006--the starting point of the Outline of China’s the Eleventh Five-year Plan for Economic and Social Development. Endowed with rich natural resources and vulnerable ecosystem, accompanied with cultural complexity, poverty and high rate if illiteracy, the ethnic regions owe a comparatively slower pace of urbanization. This study is focused on controversies surrounding the process of urbanization that more and more scholars have recognized the limitations and constraints of the carrying capacity of the cities, yet they are rather confined within the one-sidedness of the research from the single-element perspective in ecosystem, environment, resources as land, water or talents etc. (2) The urban comprehensive carrying capacity hierarchical structure model is constructed, which outlines the key indicators in three differentiated layers and pioneers in the research perceptions. The first section of the study encompasses an introduction to the conceptual framework of the comprehensive carrying capacity, and lists its enriched definition with ecological, economic and social ties
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