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Previous studies show that urban parks have an amenity effect, which increases the willingness of homebuyers to pay for houses located close to these parks. However, the impact of urban park quality, especially perceived quality, on willingness to pay is relatively underexamined. We estimate the natural and perceived qualities of urban parks in the downtown area of Tianjin where recently implemented urban green policies favoured the development of large urban parks. To measure perceived quality, we construct a multi-dimensional scale item and test its reliability and validity. Using spatial econometric and multi-level models, we assess if and to what extent perceived urban park quality affects the value of nearby houses and the interaction effect between urban park quality and proximity. Results show that an urban park with high natural quality may not have high perceived quality. Amongst those factors determining perceived quality, perceived quality on naturalness positively influences property value, whereas other perceived factors are unimportant in residents’ willingness to pay. Relative to natural quality, a higher perceived quality further increases the residents’ willingness to pay. Moreover, the effect of nearest (within 400 m) urban park availability is influenced by urban park quality. Our findings contribute to urban green policymaking in Tianjin where policymakers are choosing between building new urban parks and developing existing ones or allocating more funds to the development of community-level parks. Housing markets reject the former strategy yet support those policies that focus on the perceived quality of lower-level urban parks highly appreciated by urban residents.
Kehao Zhou; Yan Song; Ronghui Tan. Public perception matters: Estimating homebuyers’ willingness to pay for urban park quality. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 2021, 64, 127275 .
AMA StyleKehao Zhou, Yan Song, Ronghui Tan. Public perception matters: Estimating homebuyers’ willingness to pay for urban park quality. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 2021; 64 ():127275.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKehao Zhou; Yan Song; Ronghui Tan. 2021. "Public perception matters: Estimating homebuyers’ willingness to pay for urban park quality." Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 64, no. : 127275.
Land-use intensity (LUI) is one of the most direct manifestations of regional land use efficiency. The study of cross-administrative LUI in urban agglomerations is of great importance for the sustainable development of land, new urbanization, and territorial spatial planning. In this study, the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China was used as the case study area to explore the spatial spillover effect through the administrative division, underlying driving mechanism, and spatial interactions or constraints of LUI. First, LUI was measured using the index of the proportion of construction land to the total area of the administrative region. Second, the adjacency relationship of the county-level administrative units was identified on the basis of the queen-type adjacency criterion under the county-level administrative division system. Thereafter, spatial weight matrix for spatial modeling was constructed. Last, a spatial model using the “Spatial adjacency matrix” was devised to examine the influencing factors and the potential spatial interactions or constraints of administrative units. Results revealed that the level of LUI of different county-level administrative units were quite different, and the gap of LUI among county-level administrative units widened from 2010 to 2017. The fixed asset investment per land (FAIL), gross domestic product per capital (PGDP), and proportion of tertiary sector (PTS) are the driving factors of LUI. County-level administrative units not only had a significant and increasing spatial interaction effect based on the relationship of cooperation, but also had an influence of restraint mutually which was caused by the competition. The direct spatial spillover effect was remarkable. In the future, the effect of interaction among administrative units under the administrative division should be considered to promote the reasonable use and optimal layout of regional urban land to realize the optimal allocation of land resources.
Pengrui Wang; Chen Zeng; Yan Song; Long Guo; Wenping Liu; Wenting Zhang. The Spatial Effect of Administrative Division on Land-Use Intensity. Land 2021, 10, 543 .
AMA StylePengrui Wang, Chen Zeng, Yan Song, Long Guo, Wenping Liu, Wenting Zhang. The Spatial Effect of Administrative Division on Land-Use Intensity. Land. 2021; 10 (5):543.
Chicago/Turabian StylePengrui Wang; Chen Zeng; Yan Song; Long Guo; Wenping Liu; Wenting Zhang. 2021. "The Spatial Effect of Administrative Division on Land-Use Intensity." Land 10, no. 5: 543.
Green innovation and pollutant emissions are currently among the hottest topics in corporate environmental behavior (CEB) research. However, a few previous studies have examined these two concepts together at the choice level of CEB. This paper discusses the internal selection logic of CEB by using multinomial logit (MNL) models that consider the choices of enterprises in green innovation and illegal emissions, both across China and separately in different regions. The objective of this paper is to consider the four choices available to heavily polluting enterprises’ dual-target corporate environmental behavior (DTCEB), including alienated, conservative, contradictory, and intimate environmental behaviors. The results of this study show that, under various external pressures, 61.2% of heavily polluting enterprises choose conservative environmental behavior. There is also generally a lack of synchronization between the goals of short-term economic and long-term social benefits. At the current stage, environmental regulation measures should focus on guiding enterprises to change from alienated, conservative, and contradictory behaviors, to intimate. Instead of only focusing on monitoring pollution emissions, the government should focus on green innovation guidance to effectively promote the transformation and upgrading of heavily polluting enterprises. A moderate adjustment of the intensity of command regulation may lead to better regulatory effects. Specifically, the enforcement of laws across China should be slowed; efforts should be made to increase the focus of public participation in the eastern region; the importance of incentive-based tax rate preferences should be increased in the central region, and the intensity of legislation should be strengthened in the western region. Compared with the emphasis on environmental performance in other literature, this article uses comparative thinking to explore the choice logic of the DTCEBs, which attaches different degrees of importance to long-term social benefits and short-term economic benefits.
Jing Peng; Yan Song; Guoping Tu; Yanhong Liu. A study of the dual-target corporate environmental behavior (DTCEB) of heavily polluting enterprises under different environment regulations: Green innovation vs. pollutant emissions. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 297, 126602 .
AMA StyleJing Peng, Yan Song, Guoping Tu, Yanhong Liu. A study of the dual-target corporate environmental behavior (DTCEB) of heavily polluting enterprises under different environment regulations: Green innovation vs. pollutant emissions. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021; 297 ():126602.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJing Peng; Yan Song; Guoping Tu; Yanhong Liu. 2021. "A study of the dual-target corporate environmental behavior (DTCEB) of heavily polluting enterprises under different environment regulations: Green innovation vs. pollutant emissions." Journal of Cleaner Production 297, no. : 126602.
This paper corrected the long-term misunderstanding of the land utilization efficiency concept. The Undesirable-Window-DEA model, Dagum Gini coefficient, and spatial panel autoregressive model with fixed effect were used to explore the spatial heterogeneity and influencing factors of urban construction land utilization efficiency in China from 2004 to 2016. The results show the following: (1) China’s overall utilization of urban construction land is still at a low level. It decreased first and then rose, with a “flat V-shaped” evolution pattern. (2) During the study period, the Gini coefficient of urban construction land utilization efficiency for all provinces decreased first, then rose, and decreased again. The utilization efficiency Gini coefficients within provincial grouping were eastern region (0.063), central region (0.101), and western region (0.128). The Gini coefficients within provincial grouping were central versus western (0.121), eastern versus western (0.161), and eastern versus central (0.168). For the contribution to overall inequality of land utilization efficiency, the inequality within groups contributes the most (57.57%), and the inequality between groups accounts for about 25.62%. The overall efficiency is improved, with an evolution pattern of “difference narrowed–differences expanded–difference narrowed.” (3) “economic development,” “industrial structure,” “research development investment,” and “land urbanization level” have significantly positive effect on urban construction land utilization efficiency, while other factors have a negative effect, including “urbanization level of population,” “urban population density,” “cultivated field resources level,” “government influence level,” “land urbanization level,” and “financial dependence level.” This study could provide theoretical support for the implementation of cross-provincial/regional urban construction land quotes reallocation and differential construction land management policies.
Qingfeng Zhou; Xianqiang Wu; Xian Zhang; Yan Song. Investigating the Spatiotemporal Disparity and Influencing Factors of Urban Construction Land Utilization Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Panel Data of China. Advances in Civil Engineering 2021, 2021, 1 -17.
AMA StyleQingfeng Zhou, Xianqiang Wu, Xian Zhang, Yan Song. Investigating the Spatiotemporal Disparity and Influencing Factors of Urban Construction Land Utilization Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Panel Data of China. Advances in Civil Engineering. 2021; 2021 ():1-17.
Chicago/Turabian StyleQingfeng Zhou; Xianqiang Wu; Xian Zhang; Yan Song. 2021. "Investigating the Spatiotemporal Disparity and Influencing Factors of Urban Construction Land Utilization Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Panel Data of China." Advances in Civil Engineering 2021, no. : 1-17.
With the increasing number of people starting to attach importance to urban green space (UGS), estimating urban residents’ demand for UGS has become critical. Previous studies have estimated residents’ demands for UGS in different cities using the Rosen–Roback model. However, there has been little analysis of the renters’ requirements for UGS or the dynamic and heterogeneous demands for UGS by residents in cities with varying characteristics. In this study, the prefecture-level cities in China were selected as the object of study for their wide representation of various city characteristics, and the Rosen–Roback model was used to address the abovementioned issues. Residents’ demand for UGS in 285 prefecture-level cities was assessed from 2010 to 2017. The results confirm our hypothesis that when UGS increases by 1%, house prices will increase by about 3% and rents will increase by about 7%, and the demand continues to grow. We also analyzed the heterogeneous demands for UGS by urban residents in different types of cities from three aspects: population density, economic level, and the effects of the National Forest City policy. Finally, we provided suggestions based on empirical results for planning and managing UGS.
Tianzheng Zhang; Yingxiang Zeng; Yingjie Zhang; Yan Song; Hongxun Li. Dynamic and Heterogeneous Demand for Urban Green Space by Urban Residents: Evidence from the Cities in China. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9384 .
AMA StyleTianzheng Zhang, Yingxiang Zeng, Yingjie Zhang, Yan Song, Hongxun Li. Dynamic and Heterogeneous Demand for Urban Green Space by Urban Residents: Evidence from the Cities in China. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9384.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTianzheng Zhang; Yingxiang Zeng; Yingjie Zhang; Yan Song; Hongxun Li. 2020. "Dynamic and Heterogeneous Demand for Urban Green Space by Urban Residents: Evidence from the Cities in China." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9384.
Many studies have confirmed that there is demand among urban residents and renters for urban parks. Moreover, as renters and home buyers have very different levels of ownership over their housing resources, their demands for amenities can be heterogenous. To discover and identify such heterogeneous demands is worthy of attention. Using the micro-housing resale transactions and listing data for housing leases in Beijing during 2019, this paper explores the difference between the demand for urban parks among home buyers and renters outside the community from the perspective of the internal quality of the community by using the hedonic price model (HPM). Specifically, from the dimension of the property management service fee and greening rate, we find that for home buyers, compared to residents living in relatively poor-quality communities, a better-quality community will reduce the demand for urban parks outside the community. Conversely, for renters, the higher the quality of the community is, the higher the demand for urban parks outside the community will be.
Tianzheng Zhang; Yingxiang Zeng; Yingjie Zhang; Yan Song; Hongxun Li. The Heterogenous Demand for Urban Parks between Home Buyers and Renters: Evidence from Beijing. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9058 .
AMA StyleTianzheng Zhang, Yingxiang Zeng, Yingjie Zhang, Yan Song, Hongxun Li. The Heterogenous Demand for Urban Parks between Home Buyers and Renters: Evidence from Beijing. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (21):9058.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTianzheng Zhang; Yingxiang Zeng; Yingjie Zhang; Yan Song; Hongxun Li. 2020. "The Heterogenous Demand for Urban Parks between Home Buyers and Renters: Evidence from Beijing." Sustainability 12, no. 21: 9058.
Farmland property rights allocation such as farmland transfer has an important impact on economic development in rural areas and farmers’ livelihoods in developing countries. Examining the impacts of the external socioeconomic conditions helps realize the desired farmland transfer. This study attempts to analyze the underlying influencing factors of farmland transfer in urbanizing China. In particular, 18 underlying influencing factors are selected to describe urbanization and natural condition. Pearson correlation coefficients are computed to measure the linear relationships between underlying influencing factors and farmland transfer. The geographical detector method is further employed to quantify the individual effects of urbanization on farmland transfer and the interaction effects of urbanization on farmland transfer by assessing the degrees of spatial stratified heterogeneity. We discover that the effects of urban–rural basic living allowance gap, regional GDP per capita, urban population proportion on the proportion of transferred farmland area, proportion of farmland transferred to non-farmer users and proportion of transferred farmland cultivated non-grain crop are the strongest, respectively. The indices of urbanization level present have higher effects on farmland transfer than those of the urban–rural gap. Meanwhile, the interaction effect between two urbanization indices enhances the effect on the farmland transfer. Our study is believed to deepen the understanding of urbanization on farmland property rights allocation in rapidly urbanizing areas. It offers new insights into realizing the sustainable land use strategy in the socioeconomic transition in developing countries.
Heyuan You; Shenyan Wu; Xin Wu; Xuxu Guo; Yan Song. The underlying influencing factors of farmland transfer in urbanizing China: implications for sustainable land use goals. Environment, Development and Sustainability 2020, 23, 8722 -8745.
AMA StyleHeyuan You, Shenyan Wu, Xin Wu, Xuxu Guo, Yan Song. The underlying influencing factors of farmland transfer in urbanizing China: implications for sustainable land use goals. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 2020; 23 (6):8722-8745.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHeyuan You; Shenyan Wu; Xin Wu; Xuxu Guo; Yan Song. 2020. "The underlying influencing factors of farmland transfer in urbanizing China: implications for sustainable land use goals." Environment, Development and Sustainability 23, no. 6: 8722-8745.
Recently, the environmental and resource crisis caused by excessive energy consumption has aroused great concern worldwide. China is a major country of energy consumption and carbon emissions, and has attempted to build a carbon emission trading market to reduce carbon emissions. This practice helps to promote the carbon trading projects for both regional carbon emission reduction and sustainable development in the pilot areas, as well as having important theoretical and practical significance for the further improvement of carbon emission trading policies. In this study, we first used the difference-in-difference (DID) model to evaluate the impact of carbon emission trading on the carbon emission intensity of construction land (CEICL). The results showed that the carbon emission trading policy can significantly reduce CEICL in the pilot areas. Furthermore, we adopted the quantile regression model to explore the mechanism and acting path of carbon emission trading on CEICL. The results show that the increase in carbon trading volume (CTV) can effectively reduce the CEICL. However, a high carbon trading price (CTP) tends to reduce the suppressing effect of carbon emission trading on CEICL. Additionally, carbon emission trading also affects CEICL through the indirect acting paths of industrial structure and energy intensity. Finally, we propose to promote regional low-carbon development from the perspective of developing a carbon emission trading market nationwide, rationalizing the carbon quota and trading price mechanism, optimizing the regional industrial structure, and improving the energy consumption structure.
Lu Li; Jie Dong; Yan Song. Impact and Acting Path of Carbon Emission Trading on Carbon Emission Intensity of Construction Land: Evidence from Pilot Areas in China. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7843 .
AMA StyleLu Li, Jie Dong, Yan Song. Impact and Acting Path of Carbon Emission Trading on Carbon Emission Intensity of Construction Land: Evidence from Pilot Areas in China. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (19):7843.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLu Li; Jie Dong; Yan Song. 2020. "Impact and Acting Path of Carbon Emission Trading on Carbon Emission Intensity of Construction Land: Evidence from Pilot Areas in China." Sustainability 12, no. 19: 7843.
Urban village redevelopment has multidimensional impacts on resettled households. These impacts can reflect the sustainability of urban village redevelopment. This study empirically compares the gains and losses of the welfare in economic conditions, living conditions, natural environment, psychological conditions, and social security in bottom-up and top-down urban village redevelopment cases in Wuhan, China. The results show that a bottom-up redevelopment mode with participative residents caused negative effects in economic welfare but positive effects on living conditions, natural environment, and psychological condition, thus promoting higher comprehensive welfare and satisfaction. Top-down redevelopment led by the government provides villagers with shared dividends through collective economic reform and thus, contributes to gains in economic conditions and social security. However, top-down redevelopment with less participation of residents leads to welfare losses in living conditions, natural environment, and psychological conditions, which results in lower welfare and satisfaction levels overall. Therefore, a middle-out redevelopment mode with a combination of government efforts and public participation are proposed as a solution for sustainable urban redevelopment.
Qing Yang; Yan Song; Yinying Cai. Blending Bottom-Up and Top-Down Urban Village Redevelopment Modes: Comparing Multidimensional Welfare Changes of Resettled Households in Wuhan, China. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7447 .
AMA StyleQing Yang, Yan Song, Yinying Cai. Blending Bottom-Up and Top-Down Urban Village Redevelopment Modes: Comparing Multidimensional Welfare Changes of Resettled Households in Wuhan, China. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (18):7447.
Chicago/Turabian StyleQing Yang; Yan Song; Yinying Cai. 2020. "Blending Bottom-Up and Top-Down Urban Village Redevelopment Modes: Comparing Multidimensional Welfare Changes of Resettled Households in Wuhan, China." Sustainability 12, no. 18: 7447.
As a rural development approach, concentrated rural settlement (CRS) was used for rural reconstruction when Wenchuan earthquake opened the opportunity window of quick and wide implementation. Although CRS has both proponents and critics, few studies have investigated the recovery success of villages reconstructed with CRS. This research gap has resulted in insufficient theoretical guidance for the practice of CRS and inefficient summarization and transfer of relevant experiences. This study therefore aims to measure the recovery success of three villages reconstructed with CRS located in the hardest-hit areas of the Wenchuan earthquake. Full-permutation polygon synthetic indicator method is adopted to evaluate the recovery success of the three case villages from the economic, social, environmental and disaster relief aspects. It is found that the three case villages have good overall recovery performances as economic, social, and environmental aspects improved a lot from 2008 to 2015, whereas the disaster relief recovery performance increased at the first several years but dramatically decreased at the later years. The implications inferred from the case studies are discussed in detail. This study provides a reference to local governments for monitoring CRS development and for improving recovery of villages reconstructed with CRS.
Yi Peng; Xinbing Gu; Xiaoting Zhu; Fuyin Zhang; Yan Song. Recovery evaluation of villages reconstructed with concentrated rural settlement after the Wenchuan earthquake. Natural Hazards 2020, 104, 139 -166.
AMA StyleYi Peng, Xinbing Gu, Xiaoting Zhu, Fuyin Zhang, Yan Song. Recovery evaluation of villages reconstructed with concentrated rural settlement after the Wenchuan earthquake. Natural Hazards. 2020; 104 (S1):139-166.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYi Peng; Xinbing Gu; Xiaoting Zhu; Fuyin Zhang; Yan Song. 2020. "Recovery evaluation of villages reconstructed with concentrated rural settlement after the Wenchuan earthquake." Natural Hazards 104, no. S1: 139-166.
The elderly population have a high incidence of cardiovascular disease and are the main users of green spaces, such as city parks. Creating supportive green spaces for exercise for the elderly is of great significance to promote their cardiovascular health. The winter cities have a severely cold climate and high incidence of cardiovascular disease, while the elderly, especially those with cardiovascular disease, face more challenges when participating in exercise in the green spaces. In the context of the winter cities, the kinds of exercise the elderly participate in are more conducive to their cardiovascular health, and determining the factors of the green spaces that are supportive for exercise for cardiovascular health in the winter are of particular interest. Taking Harbin, a typical winter city in China, as an example, this study aims to identify the exercise characteristics of elderly residents in the green spaces in winter, to link them with the principles and contents of exercise prescription for cardiovascular health, to identify the deficient factors of the green spaces in supporting exercise for cardiovascular health, and to put forward optimization design implications. Mixed qualitative methods including interviews, a questionnaire, and field observation were used to identify special behavioral characteristics and spatial factors involving winter exercise in the green spaces among the elderly. The results showed that: (1) about 42.4% of the participants had a gap with the principles of exercise prescription for cardiovascular health. Their exercise items were generally consistent with the principle of low-intensity exercise, but some of them had the problems regarding early exercise time and insufficient exercise duration and frequency. (2) Insufficient supportive factors of the green spaces mainly included facilities allocation, comfort, safety, accessibility, and air quality. Facilities allocation involved walking paths, rehabilitation facilities, auxiliary facilities, and guidance facilities; comfort involved sunlight conditions of the exercise areas; safety involved slippery roads and sites with ice and snow and medical accidents; accessibility involved the proximity, the safety of connecting roads, and the movement of the elderly; air quality involved the planting of evergreen trees. Accordingly, the design implications were given in order to bridge the supportive gap of the green spaces for exercise for cardiovascular health in the elderly population.
Hong Leng; Shuyuan Li; Huimin Zhao; Yan Song; Qing Yuan. Planning for Supportive Green Spaces in the Winter City of China: Linking Exercise of Elderly Residents and Exercise Prescription for Cardiovascular Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 5762 .
AMA StyleHong Leng, Shuyuan Li, Huimin Zhao, Yan Song, Qing Yuan. Planning for Supportive Green Spaces in the Winter City of China: Linking Exercise of Elderly Residents and Exercise Prescription for Cardiovascular Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (16):5762.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHong Leng; Shuyuan Li; Huimin Zhao; Yan Song; Qing Yuan. 2020. "Planning for Supportive Green Spaces in the Winter City of China: Linking Exercise of Elderly Residents and Exercise Prescription for Cardiovascular Health." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 16: 5762.
Developing countries generally face the problem of sustainable agricultural production during the process of agricultural modernization. Farmland trusteeship is an emerging mode of sustainable agricultural production and has played an important role in China. At present, the Chinese government has taken it as a pilot mode, but its effect also depends on the extensive participation of peasants. Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and structural equation model (SEM) method, the paper analyzed peasants’ participation intention, behavior, drivers, and the influence of policy support on peasants’ participation behavior, using survey data of Jiangsu province and peasants’ participation variables. The results suggest that: (1) The behavioral attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control variables of peasants’ participation in farmland trusteeship have a significant direct impact on peasants’ willingness to participate, and these three factors indirectly influence peasants’ participation behavior by influencing peasants’ intention; (2) perceptual behavioral control variables such as the size of farmland trusteeship organization had no significant influence on peasants’ participation behaviors; (3) government policy support has a direct and significant impact on peasants’ participation behaviors. These findings not only generate broad direct implications for Chinese policymakers to improve peasants’ participation for sustainable agricultural production, but also provide lessons for other developing countries for agricultural modernization.
Jianying Xiao; Yan Song; Heyuan You. Explaining Peasants’ Intention and Behavior of Farmland Trusteeship in China: Implications for Sustainable Agricultural Production. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5748 .
AMA StyleJianying Xiao, Yan Song, Heyuan You. Explaining Peasants’ Intention and Behavior of Farmland Trusteeship in China: Implications for Sustainable Agricultural Production. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (14):5748.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJianying Xiao; Yan Song; Heyuan You. 2020. "Explaining Peasants’ Intention and Behavior of Farmland Trusteeship in China: Implications for Sustainable Agricultural Production." Sustainability 12, no. 14: 5748.
The contradiction between economic development and environmental protection has become a major concern in many developing countries. To resolve environmental issues, political and technical measures must be considered. However, because of geographical, climatic, and economic differences, ecological issues need to be resolved at the regional level. This study proposes a complex eco-efficiency (EE) system composed of multidimensional components with entropy flows for an economic region, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, in China. There were distinct disparities of eco-efficiency in urban cluster, with the higher efficiency in the central cities and the lower efficiency in the satellite cities. Based on the periodic characteristics of eco-efficiency, two distinct periods, 2008–2012 and 2013–2016, were found. The relationships among environmental regulation (ER), green technological innovation (GTI), and EE varied in different regions and periods because of the “innovative compensation”, “compliance cost”, and “energy rebound” effects. When GTI efficiently improved the EE, inappropriate ER weakened the marginal benefits of GTI. When an “energy rebound effect” occurred, moderate ER was found to assist in reducing the harmful influence of GTI. A “race to the top” phenomenon was found to be more likely in developed areas, while a “race to the bottom” effect was found in the western urban clusters. Differentiated sustainable environmental policies of integrating institutional and free-market approaches are provided.
Yunqiang Liu; Jialing Zhu; Eldon Y. Li; Zhiyi Meng; Yan Song. Environmental regulation, green technological innovation, and eco-efficiency: The case of Yangtze river economic belt in China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2020, 155, 119993 .
AMA StyleYunqiang Liu, Jialing Zhu, Eldon Y. Li, Zhiyi Meng, Yan Song. Environmental regulation, green technological innovation, and eco-efficiency: The case of Yangtze river economic belt in China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2020; 155 ():119993.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYunqiang Liu; Jialing Zhu; Eldon Y. Li; Zhiyi Meng; Yan Song. 2020. "Environmental regulation, green technological innovation, and eco-efficiency: The case of Yangtze river economic belt in China." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 155, no. : 119993.
Urbanization leads to the continuous expansion of urban built-up areas and the erosion of green space in urban fringe areas, leading to the continuous decline of biodiversity. Urban planners and managers need corresponding decision support tools to coordinate the contradiction between the utilization and protection of green space, ensure the maintenance capacity of biodiversity in green space, and realize the sustainable development of regional economy, society and ecology. Therefore, based on the Hellwig Method, this study designed a decision-making method of green space utilization and protection in urban fringe areas and applied the method to the decision simulation of single or multiple green space utilization and protection modes. In the decision simulation of a green space utilization mode, we evaluated the Hk values of one or several green space sample units, respectively. The smaller the Hk value, the smaller the influence of the green space unit on the biodiversity maintenance function of the whole green space in the region, so the green space unit can be selected first when making green space utilization planning decisions in the urban fringe. In the decision simulation of green space protection mode, the higher the Hk value of single green space sample unit combination or multiple green space sample unit combination, the greater the influence of the green space unit in the combination on the maintenance function of the overall green space biodiversity in the region. Then, when planning the green space protection in the urban fringe, the combination of such green space sample units should be given priority as the key protection and control objects. As a decision support tool for optimal scheme of green space utilization and protection in urban fringe areas, the method is practical, instructive, reasonable, operable, flexible, and universal.
Haijiao Liu; Yonghong Ma; Qing Liu; And Yan Song. Decision-Making of Green Space Utilization and Protection in Urban Fringe Based on Biodiversity Trade-Off. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1373 .
AMA StyleHaijiao Liu, Yonghong Ma, Qing Liu, And Yan Song. Decision-Making of Green Space Utilization and Protection in Urban Fringe Based on Biodiversity Trade-Off. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (4):1373.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHaijiao Liu; Yonghong Ma; Qing Liu; And Yan Song. 2020. "Decision-Making of Green Space Utilization and Protection in Urban Fringe Based on Biodiversity Trade-Off." Sustainability 12, no. 4: 1373.
With the unprecedented urbanization during the past three decades, air quality in many Chinese cities has been a serious issue which poses great challenges for urban sustainability. This study examines the health consequences of development patterns in China by establishing the linkage between urban form, air pollution level, and cardiorespiratory mortality rate. We assembled a dataset by compiling a series of variables from multiple sources, including China’s Disease Surveillance Points (DSP) system, which forms a nationally representative sample of mortality for the year 2005, Chinese census, satellite imagery, and the Chinese National Land Use Database. After controlling for local climate, demography, socioeconomics, and other pollution factors, this study finds that urban form elements (e.g., urban density, fragmentation level, forest/green space ratio) have significant influences on PM2.5 (atmospheric particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers) concentration, thus influencing the incidence of cardiorespiratory mortality at the county level. These results may help explain how the type and pattern of development shape public health by influencing air quality and form an evidence-based land use policy to improve environmental quality and public health.
Chaosu Li; Yan Song; Li Tian; Wei Ouyang. Urban Form, Air Quality, and Cardiorespiratory Mortality: A Path Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 1202 .
AMA StyleChaosu Li, Yan Song, Li Tian, Wei Ouyang. Urban Form, Air Quality, and Cardiorespiratory Mortality: A Path Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (4):1202.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChaosu Li; Yan Song; Li Tian; Wei Ouyang. 2020. "Urban Form, Air Quality, and Cardiorespiratory Mortality: A Path Analysis." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 4: 1202.
Differences in housing prices and rental prices across cities or regions and the relationship between prices and socioeconomic fundamentals are frequent research foci in urban and real estate economics, but the existing studies on China's housing market rarely consider both housing price and rent. This study provides a framework for a quantitative analysis of a country's housing market from the perspective of supply and demand, and takes China's housing market as a case study. The current study first explores the key factors that affect housing prices and rental prices using data from 202 cities and collected from 2011 to 2014. Then, theoretical values of housing prices and rental prices in each city are estimated, and the spatiotemporal characteristics of deviation of housing prices and rental prices are analysed. The empirical findings of the current study mainly reveal the following three points. First, the determinants of housing prices and rental prices have similarities. Second, the effect of above factors shows obvious spatial heterogeneity. The coefficients of the variables are different between coastal and inland regions, indicating different demand and supply elasticities across regions. Third, the price deviation presents significant spatial agglomeration. Cities with higher price deviations are clustered in the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, while the price deviations are relatively mild in the Pearl River Delta region.
Xiaoping Zhou; Zhenyang Qin; Yingjie Zhang; Linyi Zhao; Yan Song. Quantitative Estimation and Spatiotemporal Characteristic Analysis of Price Deviation in China's Housing Market. Sustainability 2019, 11, 7232 .
AMA StyleXiaoping Zhou, Zhenyang Qin, Yingjie Zhang, Linyi Zhao, Yan Song. Quantitative Estimation and Spatiotemporal Characteristic Analysis of Price Deviation in China's Housing Market. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (24):7232.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXiaoping Zhou; Zhenyang Qin; Yingjie Zhang; Linyi Zhao; Yan Song. 2019. "Quantitative Estimation and Spatiotemporal Characteristic Analysis of Price Deviation in China's Housing Market." Sustainability 11, no. 24: 7232.
Neighborhood built environment may influence residents’ physical activity, but evidence of non-major Chinese cities is lacking. We investigated the impact of five socio-demographic characteristics, 10 objectively assessed environment characteristics, eight perceived neighborhood attributes, and social environment on physical activity and health outcomes (sense of community, body mass index, as well as self-reported health status). We also examined (1) five conceptually comparable perceived neighborhood attributes as mediators of the relationship between objective environment attributes and physical activity; (2) other perceived indicators and social environment as moderators of those relationships, using the mediation analysis in regression. Objectively assessed residential density, land use mix, street connectivity, and accessibility were curvilinearly and/or linearly related to physical activity. The slope of terrain was inversely associated with body mass index (BMI). None of the perceived attributes were found as mediators probably due to the weak associations between subjective and objective environments. High density facilitated physical activity but hindered the sense of community. Further, the perceived aesthetic and safety were associated with physical activity. Additionally, social environment moderated the positive associations of all perceived environments (except for slope) and sense of community. The present study demonstrated that both physical and social environment attributes significantly correlated with physical activity in Dalian.
Peijin Sun; Wei Lu; Yan Song; Zongchao Gu. Influences of Built Environment with Hilly Terrain on Physical Activity in Dalian, China: An Analysis of Mediation by Perceptions and Moderation by Social Environment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 4900 .
AMA StylePeijin Sun, Wei Lu, Yan Song, Zongchao Gu. Influences of Built Environment with Hilly Terrain on Physical Activity in Dalian, China: An Analysis of Mediation by Perceptions and Moderation by Social Environment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (24):4900.
Chicago/Turabian StylePeijin Sun; Wei Lu; Yan Song; Zongchao Gu. 2019. "Influences of Built Environment with Hilly Terrain on Physical Activity in Dalian, China: An Analysis of Mediation by Perceptions and Moderation by Social Environment." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 24: 4900.
The primary objective of this paper is to systematically and quantitatively analyze the peculiarities of the mode of travel chosen by residents. More specifically, this study focuses on two major aspects: (1) shedding light on the prominent factors that affect choice of travel mode from an innovative perspective of the catchment areas (CAs) of urban rail transit (URT) stations; and (2) mining and comparing the features and advantages of a diverse range of travel modes. Furthermore, it puts forward some proposals for optimizing the structure of the urban transportation system available to the residents. Using a valuable, screened and discretized, survey dataset of good size (10,385 travel activities of 4,080 individuals in 1,454 households in Nanjing, China), two mixed-logit (ML) models are established. One is based on trip origins/destinations within the CAs of the URT stations. The other is based on residence locations. The modeling results reveal that most residents, except those who own a car and/or driving license, are inclined to choose a slow mode of transport (including walking and cycling). Travelers do not notably err towards walking and bus modes during the peak hours and/or when going to work or school instead of cycling. Residents adjacent to the CAs of URT stations are attracted away from other travel modes and have a tendency to select non-motorized modes to access the URT (metro). The contrastive analysis and discussion results can help to provide urban planners, managers, decision and policy makers with useful suggestions and data support for exploring the various factors (household properties, individual attributes, and trip information) affecting residents’ choice of travel mode and seeking the residents’ travel rules. Moreover, our findings have important implications with respect to improving the structure of the choice of travel modes made available to residents and simultaneously be important in maintaining green, low-carbon, and sustainable development of urban traffic systems.
Xin Luan; Lin Cheng; Yan Song; Jinbao Zhao. Better understanding the choice of travel mode by urban residents: New insights from the catchment areas of rail transit stations. Sustainable Cities and Society 2019, 53, 101968 .
AMA StyleXin Luan, Lin Cheng, Yan Song, Jinbao Zhao. Better understanding the choice of travel mode by urban residents: New insights from the catchment areas of rail transit stations. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2019; 53 ():101968.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXin Luan; Lin Cheng; Yan Song; Jinbao Zhao. 2019. "Better understanding the choice of travel mode by urban residents: New insights from the catchment areas of rail transit stations." Sustainable Cities and Society 53, no. : 101968.
This paper explores the coupling relationship between land use and rural development to improve the environmentally friendly level of land use and attain accelerated rural revitalization. On the basis of the coupling framework, the quantitative study included the dimensionless method, the entropy method, and the coupling measure model with an empirical study in the Hainan province of China. Specifically, we evaluated levels of environmental friendliness and rural revitalization, and further calculated the coupling degree, coupling coordination degree, and the relative development degree between the two. Results demonstrated that (1) both the levels of environmentally friendly land use and rural revitalization showed an upward trend; (2) the coupling degree between environmentally friendly land use and rural revitalization was always at a high level; (3) the coupling coordination degree was improved from reluctant coordination to a quality coordination level; and (4) the relative development degree has changed since 2014, and environmentally friendly land use began to lag behind rural revitalization. This study contributes to the literature by integrating the coupling model into the relationship between land use and rural development, and the results of the article can provide a reference for China and other developing countries to coordinate land use and rural development.
Pai Wang; Mengna Qi; Yajia Liang; Xuebing Ling; Yan Song. Examining the Relationship between Environmentally Friendly Land Use and Rural Revitalization Using a Coupling Analysis: A Case Study of Hainan Province, China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6266 .
AMA StylePai Wang, Mengna Qi, Yajia Liang, Xuebing Ling, Yan Song. Examining the Relationship between Environmentally Friendly Land Use and Rural Revitalization Using a Coupling Analysis: A Case Study of Hainan Province, China. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (22):6266.
Chicago/Turabian StylePai Wang; Mengna Qi; Yajia Liang; Xuebing Ling; Yan Song. 2019. "Examining the Relationship between Environmentally Friendly Land Use and Rural Revitalization Using a Coupling Analysis: A Case Study of Hainan Province, China." Sustainability 11, no. 22: 6266.
Promoting the development of collaborative innovation networks is crucial for cities to achieve sustainable innovation. Hangzhou was selected as a case study. Based on the cooperation patent data from 2000 to 2017, we examined the scale problem, calculated the topology, and analyzed the coordination mechanisms and spatial characteristics of the topology structure. The results show that in terms of the development trend, collaborative innovation is an important pathway for innovation, and multi-subject collaborative innovation is necessary. Collaborative innovation occurs between enterprises and between enterprises and universities. With regards to topological structure, we found “Zhejiang University as a center, other universities as cores”, with the characteristics of diffusion development and fragmentation. In terms of spatial structure, we observed a networked spatial organization model with multiple centers, such as universities and industrial parks. A circle with a radius of five kilometers around a university was found to be an area of highly concentrated innovation subjects that are synergistically associated with universities. On this basis, the laws are summarized and suggestions are provided to support the research and practice of urban innovation spatial planning in China.
Nina Liu; Jiwu Wang; Yan Song. Organization Mechanisms and Spatial Characteristics of Urban Collaborative Innovation Networks: A Case Study in Hangzhou, China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5988 .
AMA StyleNina Liu, Jiwu Wang, Yan Song. Organization Mechanisms and Spatial Characteristics of Urban Collaborative Innovation Networks: A Case Study in Hangzhou, China. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (21):5988.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNina Liu; Jiwu Wang; Yan Song. 2019. "Organization Mechanisms and Spatial Characteristics of Urban Collaborative Innovation Networks: A Case Study in Hangzhou, China." Sustainability 11, no. 21: 5988.