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Sustainable Urban Development and Land Use Policy

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 March 2023) | Viewed by 5655

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Zhigang Chen

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School of Government, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Interests: urban and rural governance; land use policy; natural resources management
Prof. Dr. Xiao Lyu

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School of Humanities and Law, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China
Interests: land policy evaluation and analysis; land use and urban-rural development
Dr. Yi Li

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Guest Editor
School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Interests: land development and governance

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, the rapid growth of urbanisation and globalisation has resulted in cities around the world facing many challenges in the economic, social and ecological spheres. Sustainable urban development has undoubtedly become the key to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Land resources are the foundation of urban development, essential for the industrial growth, infrastructure development, housing affordability and ecological environment of cities. Therefore, the sustainable management of land resources is an important issue in the field of sustainable urban development.

While land resources support urban development, their utilisation structure, spatial layout, quality and ecology are often transformed, given the restless changes of urban development drivers. Coordinating the relationship between urban development and land use through the integrated use of market, planning and other multiple tools and perspectives has, hence, become a key to promoting sustainable urban development. In particular, the government's efforts to maintain the dynamic balance between the urban economic–social–ecological system and the integrated development of urban and rural areas through innovative land use policies are also important issues that require urgent attention. Therefore, it is important to frame the relationship between sustainable urban development and land use from the economic, social and ecological perspectives, and to innovate market operation and governance mechanisms in the context of urban land use transformation trends for sustainable urban development.

This Special Issue aims to assemble innovative research findings in the field of sustainable urban development and related land use policies. The research topics include, but are not limited to, the following: the relationship between urban development and land use change; economic, social and ecological effects of urban land use and policy responses; market mechanisms and governance in urban land development, land policy regulation for integrated urban–rural development, etc.

Dr. Zhigang Chen
Prof. Dr. Xiao Lyu
Dr. Yi Li
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • urban land use
  • land use policy
  • urban development
  • land use efficiency
  • land market
  • land use structure
  • ecological and environmental effects of urban land use
  • the social impact of urban land use
  • integrated urban–rural development

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The Demarcation of Urban Development Boundary Based on the Maxent-CA Model: A Case Study of Wuxi in China
by Jiaying Zhang, Yi Chen, Xuhong Yang, Wenyi Qiao and Danyang Wang
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11426; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811426 - 12 Sep 2022
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With the rapid development of urbanization, the demarcation of the urban development boundary (UDB) is of great practical significance to curb the disorderly spread of urban land, avoid losing control of urban development space, and build a barrier to green development space. In [...] Read more.
With the rapid development of urbanization, the demarcation of the urban development boundary (UDB) is of great practical significance to curb the disorderly spread of urban land, avoid losing control of urban development space, and build a barrier to green development space. In this paper, we propose a method to support the demarcation of the UDB by combining the Maxent model and the cellular automata (CA) model. This approach comprehensively considers the relationship between urban construction suitability, neighborhood effect, spatial constraint, and random interference based on a spatio-temporal dynamic simulation. This contributes to the analysis of the driving mechanism and distribution pattern of urban expansion. According to the principle of scale expansion and centralization, the simulation result is modified to demarcate the UDB. The following conclusions are drawn: the Maxent-CA model can intuitively reflect the driving mechanism and accurately simulate urban expansion in specific cities, which contributes to demarcating the UDB. Considering that this method fully embodies the principle of combining top-down and bottom-up approaches in the demarcation of UDB, we argue that the Maxent-CA model is of vital importance for the sustainable development of the living environment and is of great reference value for territorial spatial planning. Full article
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Land Comprehensive Carrying Capacity of Major Grain-Producing Areas in Northeast China: Spatial–Temporal Evolution, Obstacle Factors and Regulatory Policies
by Jia Gao, Rongrong Zhao and Yuxin Zhan
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11322; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811322 - 9 Sep 2022
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Major grain-producing areas in Northeast China serve as a significant national commodity in their role as grain bases. In order to achieve sustainable land use in such areas and ensure national food security, it is critical to understand the spatial–temporal evolution features of [...] Read more.
Major grain-producing areas in Northeast China serve as a significant national commodity in their role as grain bases. In order to achieve sustainable land use in such areas and ensure national food security, it is critical to understand the spatial–temporal evolution features of the land comprehensive carrying capacity of such areas, ascertain major obstacle factors and propose regulatory policies for effectively improving the land comprehensive carrying capacity. In this paper, a TOPSIS model based on grey relational entropy weight is developed to analyze the spatial–temporal evolution features of the land comprehensive carrying capacity of major grain-producing areas in Northeast China from 2000 to 2020, and an obstacle degree model is employed to determine the main obstacles to improving the land comprehensive carrying capacity of major grain-producing areas in Northeast China. The study results show the following: (1) The land comprehensive carrying capacity of major grain-producing areas in Northeast China is at a low level, showing an N-shaped trendline, and its spatial–temporal evolution features are subject to changes in land food carrying capacity, land economic carrying capacity and land ecological carrying capacity.(2) The main obstacle factors for improving the land comprehensive carrying capacity of major grain-producing areas in Northeast China are urbanization rate, gross industrial output per hectare and industrial solid waste emission per hectare. Cultivated land area per capita, grain output per hectare and industrial wastewater discharge per hectare have recently become obstacle factors for the land comprehensive carrying capacity of the study areas. Based on these results, the paper proposes regulatory strategies for stabilizing agricultural population transfer to avoid its reversal, exploring the optimization and upgrading of secondary sector structures to promote a low-carbon transition to green industries, and implementing cultivated land protection policies to steadily boost cultivated land grain productivity, with a view to increasing the land comprehensive carrying capacity of major grain-producing areas in Northeast China. The findings of this study act as a scientific reference for enhancing the land comprehensive carrying capacity of major grain-producing areas in Northeast China, which is crucial for ensuring national food security. Full article
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