Comparative Analysis for the Urban Metabolic Differences of Two Types of Cities in the Resource-Dependent Region Based on Emergy Theory

Chang Liu, Xueyi Shi, Lulu Qu and Bingyi Li
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Chang Liu: College of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Xueyi Shi: College of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Lulu Qu: College of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Bingyi Li: College of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 7, 1-11

Abstract: Urban metabolism analysis has become a useful and effective tool to explore urban socio-economic processes. In this research, in order to explore the similarities and differences of metabolic characteristics and variation rules of different types of resource-dependent cities, we selected two cities—Taiyuan and Jincheng, the capital and a traditional resource-dependent city of Shanxi province, respectively, as research subjects, we also established an urban metabolic evaluation framework by employing a set of eight emergy-based indicators from socio-economic data from 2007 to 2014, and compared the similarities and discrepancies from the perspectives of metabolic structure, intensity, pressure, and efficiency, and put forward some suggestions for pursuing sustainable development for both cities and pointed out that more types of resource-dependent cities should be incorporated in future research work.

Keywords: urban metabolism; resource-dependent city; emergy theory; comparison analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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