Journal
INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 573-583Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4358
Keywords
Yangtze River urban agglomeration; Environmental management; Ecological security; Spatial– temporal characteristics; Driving mechanism
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), People's Republic of China [71263040, 71850410541, 91546117]
- Humanities and social sciences research project of the Ministry of Education [20YJAZH096]
- Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology [2017r101]
- Key Project of National Social and Scientific Fund Program [18ZDA052]
- Project of National Social and Scientific Fund Program [17BGL142]
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The study analyzed the impact of urbanization on the ecological environment and proposed measures to establish an ecological security governance mechanism, emphasizing the importance of establishing an ecologically safe market system.
Urbanization adversely affects the ecological environment and reduces the quality of life in China. In view of the current situation, this study aims to determine the dynamics of the ecological security pattern of urban agglomerations using the Yangtze River urban agglomeration (YRUA) as a case study. We used the pressure-state-response (PSR) framework to establish an ecological security assessment system, combined with the technique for order of preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) method and gray correlation method, to estimate a comprehensive ecological security index, and we analyzed its evolution trends and driving mechanisms. The results indicated that the distribution of the regional ecological security level had a linked effect and that industrial pollutants posed the greatest threat to ecological security. Moreover, the main factors affecting the YRUA were urbanization, ecopathology, economic development, population pressure, land pressure, and water resource pressure. For the protection of ecological security, it is necessary to establish an ecological security governance mechanism. Moreover, the study stresses changing the traditional sewage discharge model and establishing an ecologically safe market system. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2020;00:1-11. (c) 2020 SETAC
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