Sustainable Urban Development and Land Use Change—A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta in China
This paper introduces a sustainability assessment method for the rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta in China addressing the role of land use pattern. We first calculated the sustainability component scores of 16 cities in the area in 2000 and 2005. The results showed that socioeconomic and envir...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2011-07-01
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| Series: | Sustainability |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/7/1074/ |