Differences and Drivers of Urban Resilience in Eight Major Urban Agglomerations: Evidence from China

Jie Huang, Zimin Sun and Minzhe Du ()
Additional contact information
Jie Huang: Business School, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China
Zimin Sun: Business School, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China
Minzhe Du: School of Economics and Management, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: This paper constructs an evaluation indicator system for urban resilience in China on four dimensions—economy, environment, society, and infrastructure. The evaluation indicator is used by the entropy weight method to measure the resilience levels of 138 cities in 8 urban agglomerations from 2005 to 2018. Using the Theil index and variance decomposition method, we explore the size and sources of urban resilience differences among the eight urban agglomerations from the dual perspectives of space and structure and employ geographic detectors to identify the driving factors behind their differences. The results show that although the overall resilience level of the eight urban agglomerations is not high, it shows an upward trend. The differences within the eight urban agglomerations are the main spatial sources of urban resilience differences and economic resilience is the main structural source of urban resilience differences. Moreover, economic resilience and social resilience have the greatest contribution and driving effect on the resilience differences of BTH, YRD, PRD, MYR, CC, GP, and HC urban agglomerations, but the difference in resilience of CP is mainly caused by the difference in infrastructure resilience. Compared with the single factor, the impact of the interaction of each factor is even greater.

Keywords: urban resilience; spatial difference; structural source; geographic detector; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/9/1470/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/9/1470/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jlands:v:11:y:2022:i:9:p:1470-:d:905884

Access Statistics for this article

Land is currently edited by Ms. Carol Ma

More articles in Land from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().