Journal
POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 3983-3995Publisher
HARD
DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/118644
Keywords
sustainable development; mining cities; relative resources carrying capacity; GM model; Anhui Province
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51574010]
- Social science innovation and development research project in Anhui with the title Research on ecological compensation mechanism, path and benefit in middle and lower reaches of Huaihe River [2019CX110]
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Mining cities in China are vital energy bases that contribute greatly to the country's development. With the pressure of resources depletion and environmental destruction, the sustainable development of these cities is increasingly concerned by the government. This study chooses typical mining cities in Anhui Province of China as the case studies, then selects ten indicators from four dimensions of natural, economic, social, and environmental resources and improves the relative resources carrying capacity (RRCC) model. The dynamic changes of RRCC of these cities from 2007 to 2017 are analyzed. Then the predicted values in 2018-2023 were gotten based on GM (1, 1) model. The results indicate that: (1) Overall, the RRCC of these cities are overload and the overload population has slightly decreased. (2) The primary resources carrying the population arc natural resources, but their carrying capacity shows a declining trend. The carrying capacities of economic, social, and environmental resources are much less than that of natural resources, although they have increased a lot in these years. (3) The RRCC and its variation tendency of each mining city are different. (4) The predicted RRCC of these cities would become stronger and the population overload would decrease in the next six years.
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