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Improving the green efficiency of industrial water resources (GEIWR) in the Poyang Lake region is an effective way to correct the inefficient use of regional water resources and mitigate severe industrial water pollution. In this paper, we use the super efficiency slack-based measure (SBM) model to analyze the spatial and temporal evolution of the GEIWR from 2005 to 2016, and we use the Tobit regression model to explore the factors affecting the GEIWR in the Poyang Lake region. The results are as follows: First, the average value of the GEIWR in the Poyang Lake region is 0.70, and the overall level is high, but the regional differences are palpable. Second, the overall GEIWR in the region show an increasing trend, but the development of various regions is uneven, and the difference in pure technical efficiency between regions is the main reason for the difference in the GEIWR from 2005 to 2016. Third, Jingdezhen is the city with the lowest GEIWR, and it is also the key to improving the overall efficiency of the region. Finally, the treatment capacity of industrial wastewater facilities, the government's deployment of science and technology expenditures and the degree of industrialization have a positive impact on the GEIWR, and the economic development level and industrial water intensity have no obvious correlation with the GEIWR in the Poyang Lake region.
Tiangui Lv; Wangda Liu; Xinmin Zhang; Lan Yao. Spatiotemporal evolution of the green efficiency of industrial water resources and its influencing factors in the Poyang Lake region. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 2021, 103049 .
AMA StyleTiangui Lv, Wangda Liu, Xinmin Zhang, Lan Yao. Spatiotemporal evolution of the green efficiency of industrial water resources and its influencing factors in the Poyang Lake region. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C. 2021; ():103049.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTiangui Lv; Wangda Liu; Xinmin Zhang; Lan Yao. 2021. "Spatiotemporal evolution of the green efficiency of industrial water resources and its influencing factors in the Poyang Lake region." Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C , no. : 103049.
The land topic has generally become a major socioeconomic issue that currently attracts attention globally. To explore the issue, various countries devote much attention to land use planning. This paper searches the Core Collection of the Web of Science and collects 1771 land use planning articles published between 1990 and 2019. The R software, biblioshiny package, and CiteSpace are applied in this paper. The results show the following: (1) the number of papers related to land use planning has shown an overall growth trend, which can be divided into the following four stages: initial exploration, preliminary growth, stable development, and rapid development; (2) the United States is in an absolute leading position as the primary research force among developed countries. The top 3 countries related to international cooperation are the United States, China, and Italy; (3) land use planning, land use, GIS, urban planning, China, spatial planning and climate change are some high-frequency keywords used in land use planning; (4) the current research hot spots mainly focus on the relationship between land use spatial planning and regional planning, land informatization development, public participation, urban sprawl, and sustainable development; (5) the themes show 8 evolutionary paths related to the following four topics: ecosystem protection, climate and natural change, urban sprawl and agricultural development, and GIS development; (6) this paper proposes that strengthening integration within disciplines, introducing new theories and methods, and sustainable land use will become future research directions requiring more land use planning attention.
Tiangui Lv; Li Wang; Hualin Xie; Xinmin Zhang; Yanwei Zhang. Exploring the Global Research Trends of Land Use Planning Based on a Bibliometric Analysis: Current Status and Future Prospects. Land 2021, 10, 304 .
AMA StyleTiangui Lv, Li Wang, Hualin Xie, Xinmin Zhang, Yanwei Zhang. Exploring the Global Research Trends of Land Use Planning Based on a Bibliometric Analysis: Current Status and Future Prospects. Land. 2021; 10 (3):304.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTiangui Lv; Li Wang; Hualin Xie; Xinmin Zhang; Yanwei Zhang. 2021. "Exploring the Global Research Trends of Land Use Planning Based on a Bibliometric Analysis: Current Status and Future Prospects." Land 10, no. 3: 304.
Land use/cover change is the main driving force of urban expansion which influences human–environment interactions. Generally, the formation of urban heat islands (UHIs) can be referred to as a negative “by-product” of urbanization. In the context of rapid urbanization, the present paper aims to capture the landscape changes and three patterns of urban expansion (i.e., infill, extension, and leapfrog), and provide a better understanding of the formation of the surface urban heat island (SUHI) in Dongguan, China, during the past 20+ years. Urban land increased from 28.87 × 103 ha in 1994 to 78.89 × 103 ha in 2005 and 101.05 × 103 ha in 2015, with a compound annual urban growth rate of 9.57% (1994–2005) and 2.51% (2005–2015), respectively. Based on the mean land surface temperature difference (Δ mean LST) between urban land (UL) and green space (GS), the SUHI intensity (SUHII) increased from 1.46 °C in 1994 to 2.32 °C in 2005 and 3.83 °C in 2015 in Dongguan. Overall, the Δ mean LST of urban areas increased from 2.61 °C (1994–2005) to 4.78 °C (2005–2015). The Δ mean LST between the city center and its surrounding areas decreased from 1994 to 2015, and the Δ mean LST between the city center and the suburbs gradually increased, primarily in 2015. In particular, both dense urban and the infill pattern of urban expansion had high mean LSTs in Dongguan, thus having negative impacts on sustainable urban development. The limited green space and open land should be strictly controlled or prohibited for transformation in urban areas. Particularly in dense regions, green roofs, green areas, and urban renewal actions could be considered for mitigating the urban heat island effect.
Xinmin Zhang; Ronald C. Estoque; Yuji Murayama; Manjula Ranagalage. Capturing urban heat island formation in a subtropical city of China based on Landsat images: implications for sustainable urban development. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 2021, 193, 1 -13.
AMA StyleXinmin Zhang, Ronald C. Estoque, Yuji Murayama, Manjula Ranagalage. Capturing urban heat island formation in a subtropical city of China based on Landsat images: implications for sustainable urban development. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 2021; 193 (3):1-13.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXinmin Zhang; Ronald C. Estoque; Yuji Murayama; Manjula Ranagalage. 2021. "Capturing urban heat island formation in a subtropical city of China based on Landsat images: implications for sustainable urban development." Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 193, no. 3: 1-13.
The issue of food security has been widely studied by the international community. To reveal the research situation as it pertains to food security objectively, this paper comprehensively utilizes bibliometrics techniques (i.e., Bibliometrix, VOSviewer, and CiteSpace) to explore the research status and development trends in the area of food security. The results show that: (1) food security research has shown an increasing trend during the past 30 years. The 2013–2019 period was shown to be an active period with a high yield of articles, which were published mainly in the developed regions of Europe and America. Particularly, the number of articles published in the United States was far ahead of other countries in the world. (2) Food security research involved agriculture, environmental science and ecology, food science and technology, and business economics. The research topic is an interdisciplinary subject with a good momentum of development and a large space remaining for research. (3) Climate change, poverty, gender, nutrition, and diet structure have been the focuses of food security research in recent years. Food security in China, India, and sub-Saharan Africa has attracted wide attention. (4) Food security research is becoming more and more mature. The research scope extended from food security to food security and water and land resource security. Research topics range from decentralized to systematic. (5) Food security research is likely to gain much attention in the future based on three pillars: food supply, food access, and food use. Sustainability and diversity of food supply, along with dietary restructuring and food conservation initiatives, are expected to be new trends in future research on land management.
Hualin Xie; Yuyang Wen; Yongrok Choi; Xinmin Zhang. Global Trends on Food Security Research: A Bibliometric Analysis. Land 2021, 10, 119 .
AMA StyleHualin Xie, Yuyang Wen, Yongrok Choi, Xinmin Zhang. Global Trends on Food Security Research: A Bibliometric Analysis. Land. 2021; 10 (2):119.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHualin Xie; Yuyang Wen; Yongrok Choi; Xinmin Zhang. 2021. "Global Trends on Food Security Research: A Bibliometric Analysis." Land 10, no. 2: 119.
This paper uses both fiscal expenditure policy and fiscal revenue policy as input indicators and selects environmental pollution control results reflecting different forms and sources of pollution as output indicators. The efficiency of fiscal policies for environmental pollution control (EFPE) of 30 provincial-level administrative divisions in China from 2007 to 2017 is measured by adopting the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method. Then, the spatial effect of fiscal decentralization on EFPE is empirically analyzed by using the spatial lag model (SLM). The results show that EFPE values in China have been greatly improved overall since 2014. The change in technical efficiency (TE) is caused mainly by the change in pure technical efficiency (PTE). EFPE values have regional heterogeneity and convergence. The eastern region has clearly higher EFPE values than other regions. The growth rate of the low efficient region is greater than that of the high efficient region. Fiscal expenditure decentralization has a direct negative effect and spatial spillover effect on EFPE values, while fiscal revenue decentralization has a non-significant effect. Based on these results, this paper proposes the following policy implications: increasing the level of fiscal expenditure of environmental pollution control and improving the central transfer payment system for environmental protection; reforming the government performance assessment system and innovating the conditions of government expenditure on environmental pollution control; and promoting horizontal fiscal cooperation in cross-regional environmental governance.
Caihua Zhou; Xinmin Zhang. Measuring the Efficiency of Fiscal Policies for Environmental Pollution Control and the Spatial Effect of Fiscal Decentralization in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 8974 .
AMA StyleCaihua Zhou, Xinmin Zhang. Measuring the Efficiency of Fiscal Policies for Environmental Pollution Control and the Spatial Effect of Fiscal Decentralization in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (23):8974.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCaihua Zhou; Xinmin Zhang. 2020. "Measuring the Efficiency of Fiscal Policies for Environmental Pollution Control and the Spatial Effect of Fiscal Decentralization in China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 23: 8974.
This paper examines the ecosystem service values of Jiangxi province, China using the benefit transfer approach. The land cover dynamics results show that cropland and forest are the main land cover types in Jiangxi province. Urban land drastically increased after 2000, expanding from 846.54 km2 in 2000 to 2317.48 km2 in 2015. Forest and water obviously decreased across the study periods. Consequently, the total ecosystem service values decreased from 37.91 × 1010 Yuan in 1995 to 35.27 × 1010 Yuan in 2015. The values showed a declining trend, especially during the 1995–2000 period. The largest declines in ecosystem service values were caused by decreases in forest and water cover. Regulating services experienced the largest declines in ecosystem services value. Moreover, water supply showed the largest decline in ecosystem service value between 1995 and 2015. Not surprisingly, food production increased in the whole period, especially in the 1995–2000 period. Forest and cropland played the most important roles in the total ecosystem service values of Jiangxi province. We then discussed the relationship among ecosystem services based on the ecosystem service trade-off degree. The results show that the dominant relationship among ecosystem services in Jiangxi province was synergy; thus synergy mostly occurred in all ecosystem services except for food production from 1995 to 2015. However, during the 1995–2000 period, trade-offs mainly existed in both food production and waste treatment. The proportion of synergy greatly increased in the 2000–2015 period, and the synergistic relationship between waste treatment and other ecosystem services increased. However, the trade-off relationship between food production and other ecosystem services still has not improved, which should be concerned in the future. Changes in the percentage share of cropland showed a declining trend; thus, the potential risk of cropland loss should be monitored.
Xinmin Zhang; Hualin Xie; Jiaying Shi; Tiangui Lv; Caihua Zhou; Wangda Liu. Assessing Changes in Ecosystem Service Values in Response to Land Cover Dynamics in Jiangxi Province, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 3018 .
AMA StyleXinmin Zhang, Hualin Xie, Jiaying Shi, Tiangui Lv, Caihua Zhou, Wangda Liu. Assessing Changes in Ecosystem Service Values in Response to Land Cover Dynamics in Jiangxi Province, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (9):3018.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXinmin Zhang; Hualin Xie; Jiaying Shi; Tiangui Lv; Caihua Zhou; Wangda Liu. 2020. "Assessing Changes in Ecosystem Service Values in Response to Land Cover Dynamics in Jiangxi Province, China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 9: 3018.
Satellite-derived land surface temperature (LST) reveals the variations and impacts on the terrestrial thermal environment on a broad spatial scale. The drastic growth of urbanization-induced impervious surfaces and the urban population has generated a remarkably increasing influence on the urban thermal environment in China. This research was aimed to investigate land surface temperature (LST) intensity response to urban land cover/use by examining the thermal impact on urban settings in ten Chinese megacities (i.e., Beijing, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Nanjing, Shenyang, Suzhou, Tianjin, and Wuhan). Surface urban heat island (SUHI) footprints were scrutinized and compared by magnitude and extent. The causal mechanism among land cover composition (LCC), population, and SUHI was also identified. Spatial patterns of the thermal environments were identical to those of land cover/use. In addition, most impervious surface materials (greater than 81%) were labeled as heat sources, on the other hand, water and vegetation were functioned as heat sinks. More than 85% of heat budgets in Beijing and Guangzhou were generated from impervious surfaces. SUHI for all megacities showed spatially gradient decays between urban and surrounding rural areas; further, temperature peaks are not always dominant in the urban core, despite extremely dense impervious surfaces. The composition ratio of land cover (LCC%) negatively correlates with SUHI intensity (SUHII), whereas the population positively associates with SUHII. For all targeted megacities, land cover composition and population account for more than 63.9% of SUHI formation using geographically weighted regression. The findings can help optimize land cover/use to relieve pressure from rapid urbanization, maintain urban ecological balance, and meet the demands of sustainable urban growth.
Fei Liu; Xinmin Zhang; Yuji Murayama; Takehiro Morimoto. Impacts of Land Cover/Use on the Urban Thermal Environment: A Comparative Study of 10 Megacities in China. Remote Sensing 2020, 12, 307 .
AMA StyleFei Liu, Xinmin Zhang, Yuji Murayama, Takehiro Morimoto. Impacts of Land Cover/Use on the Urban Thermal Environment: A Comparative Study of 10 Megacities in China. Remote Sensing. 2020; 12 (2):307.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFei Liu; Xinmin Zhang; Yuji Murayama; Takehiro Morimoto. 2020. "Impacts of Land Cover/Use on the Urban Thermal Environment: A Comparative Study of 10 Megacities in China." Remote Sensing 12, no. 2: 307.
Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of China, is located in the northeastern part of Jiangxi Province. This paper summarizes the historical development of Jingdezhen, dating back to the Han Dynasty—when pottery production first began in this city. It is worth mentioning that Jingdezhen has gradually become the world's porcelain manufacturing center, especially since the North Song Dynasty. The urban land increased greatly after the liberation in 1949, and the urban population had approximately 69.95% of the total population as of 2017. The market share of porcelain production in Jingdezhen has been threatened and divided by other cities. Additionally, the resources depletion in Jingdezhen makes the development of porcelain manufacturing face a bottleneck. Therefore, Jingdezhen exploits the advantages from its the abundant porcelain culture to promote industrial transformation and upgrading. Furthermore, in the future, Jingdezhen should vigorously develop itself based on “big porcelain”, incorporating tourism, culture, porcelain, and aviation manufacturing as entities to accelerate the development of its modern transition economy.
Xinmin Zhang; Hualin Xie; Caihua Zhou; Bindan Zeng. Jingdezhen: The millennium porcelain capital. Cities 2019, 98, 102569 .
AMA StyleXinmin Zhang, Hualin Xie, Caihua Zhou, Bindan Zeng. Jingdezhen: The millennium porcelain capital. Cities. 2019; 98 ():102569.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXinmin Zhang; Hualin Xie; Caihua Zhou; Bindan Zeng. 2019. "Jingdezhen: The millennium porcelain capital." Cities 98, no. : 102569.
The coordination relationship between land urbanization and population urbanization is crucial for achieving sustainable development under economic transition. Moreover, the balance between land urbanization and population urbanization is essential to guarantee the urbanization process of an entire city. This paper empirically analyzes the interaction between land urbanization and population urbanization in Nanchang from 2002 to 2017 based on the coupling coordination model (CCM). The impacts of the coordination degree on coordinated development are quantified by multivariate linear regression (MLR). The results show the following: (1) The indices of land urbanization and population urbanization in Nanchang showed an upward trend, and therefore the coordination degree in Nanchang increased significantly from 2002 to 2017. (2) The coordinated development of urbanization underwent two stages: disordered and moderately disordered. (3) The urban population proportion and the supporting capability of agricultural production had a positive impact on coordinated development. Meanwhile, the results also show that per capita education expenditures and the per capita public green area had negative impacts on the coordination degree, while economic development and the urban industrial structure were positive contributors to the coordination degree. Finally, this paper proposes that policies should be formulated to achieve coordinated development of urbanization. It can be concluded that the results regarding coordinated development of urbanization can help decision makers formulate effective measures to achieve coordinated development in the future.
Tiangui Lv; Li Wang; Xinmin Zhang; Hualin Xie; Hua Lu; Hongyi Li; Wangda Liu; Yanwei Zhang. Coupling Coordinated Development and Exploring Its Influencing Factors in Nanchang, China: From the Perspectives of Land Urbanization and Population Urbanization. Land 2019, 8, 178 .
AMA StyleTiangui Lv, Li Wang, Xinmin Zhang, Hualin Xie, Hua Lu, Hongyi Li, Wangda Liu, Yanwei Zhang. Coupling Coordinated Development and Exploring Its Influencing Factors in Nanchang, China: From the Perspectives of Land Urbanization and Population Urbanization. Land. 2019; 8 (12):178.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTiangui Lv; Li Wang; Xinmin Zhang; Hualin Xie; Hua Lu; Hongyi Li; Wangda Liu; Yanwei Zhang. 2019. "Coupling Coordinated Development and Exploring Its Influencing Factors in Nanchang, China: From the Perspectives of Land Urbanization and Population Urbanization." Land 8, no. 12: 178.
Exploring the relationship between competition and cooperation in water resource exploitation by applying a game model is crucial for achieving stable equilibrium in the presence of environmental externalities. To explore this, we used the Poyang Lake Basin, which is divided into three overly exploited sub-regions, as an example. This paper selected the different types of sub-regions of Poyang Lake Basin as the research subjects, and then proposed a game model to study evolutionarily stable equilibrium strategies. The results are as follows: (1) the behavior of the sub-regions of Poyang Lake Basin are affected by one another and cannot achieve equilibrium through independent games, which also need external forces to coordinate the three reaches; (2) the benefits improve gradually from the state of “non-cooperation” to “full cooperation” and reach an ideal equilibrium when all the sub-regions choose the strategy of cooperation; (3) the strategic choice of sub-reaches is difficult to maximize the overall benefits of the basin in the absence of external constraints. To ensure that the sub-regions choose the cooperative strategy, the central government should support the cooperative subsidies of local governments. In addition to improving the equilibrium state of the sub-reaches, this study proposes the following policy implications: constructing a basin plan and promoting fiscal transfer payments, inducing an industrial gradient transfer, and strengthening the payment for the use of water resources.
Tiangui Lv; Hualin Xie; Hua Lu; Xinmin Zhang; Lei Yang. A Game Theory-Based Approach for Exploring Water Resource Exploitation Behavior in the Poyang Lake Basin, China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6237 .
AMA StyleTiangui Lv, Hualin Xie, Hua Lu, Xinmin Zhang, Lei Yang. A Game Theory-Based Approach for Exploring Water Resource Exploitation Behavior in the Poyang Lake Basin, China. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (22):6237.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTiangui Lv; Hualin Xie; Hua Lu; Xinmin Zhang; Lei Yang. 2019. "A Game Theory-Based Approach for Exploring Water Resource Exploitation Behavior in the Poyang Lake Basin, China." Sustainability 11, no. 22: 6237.
To promote third-party environmental pollution control in China, it is necessary to dissect the mechanism of fiscal policy in third-party environmental pollution control. This study first discusses the acting paths of fiscal policies on third-party environmental pollution control in theory. A tripartite evolutionary game model involving the local government, the polluting enterprise, and the third-party enterprise is established. The replicator dynamics, evolutionary stability strategies, and numerical simulation of the behavior of the three participants are analyzed to further study the acting mechanism of fiscal policy in third-party environmental pollution control. In addition, the influences of other parameters on the implementation of third-party environmental pollution control are evaluated. The results show that the behaviors of the local government, the polluting enterprise, and the third-party enterprise influence each other. Furthermore, strengthening the relevant fiscal policy, reducing the risks of the polluting enterprise and third-party enterprise, and improving the benefit to the local government are conducive to promoting third-party environmental pollution control in China. Based on these results, this study proposes the following policy implications: formulating fiscal policies for third-party environmental pollution control, implementing fiscal policies in a dynamic and progressive manner, improving the market mechanism of third-party environmental pollution control, and strengthening the environmental performance assessment of the local government.
Caihua Zhou; Hualin Xie; Xinmin Zhang. Does Fiscal Policy Promote Third-Party Environmental Pollution Control in China? An Evolutionary Game Theoretical Approach. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4434 .
AMA StyleCaihua Zhou, Hualin Xie, Xinmin Zhang. Does Fiscal Policy Promote Third-Party Environmental Pollution Control in China? An Evolutionary Game Theoretical Approach. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (16):4434.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCaihua Zhou; Hualin Xie; Xinmin Zhang. 2019. "Does Fiscal Policy Promote Third-Party Environmental Pollution Control in China? An Evolutionary Game Theoretical Approach." Sustainability 11, no. 16: 4434.