Assessment and Spatial-Temporal Evolution Analysis of Urban Land Use Efficiency under Green Development Orientation: Case of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomerations

Rapid urbanization has provided a strong impetus for the economic growth of China, but it has also caused many problems such as inefficient urban land use and environmental pollution. With the popularization of the concept of green and sustainable development, the Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG) assessment concept is widely accepted. The government and residents are paying more and more attention to environmental issues in urban development, and environmental protection has formed an important part of urban development. In this context, this study takes 26 cities in the Yangtze River Delta as examples to build an evaluation system for urban land-use efficiency under green development orientation. The evaluation system takes into account the inputs of land, capital, labor, and energy factors in the process of urban development. Based on emphasizing economic output, the social benefits and undesired outputs brought about by urban development are taken into account. This paper measures urban land use efficiency by the super-efficiency SBM model, and on this basis, analyses the spatial-temporal evolution characteristics of urban land-use efficiency. Further, this paper measures urban land use efficiency without considering undesired outputs and compares the two evaluation methods. Again, the comparison illustrates the rationality of urban land use efficiency evaluation system under green development orientation.

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Collaborative measurement and interactive response between regional integration and urban land use efficiency in the Yangtze River Delta

资源科学 ◽

10.18402/resci.2021.10.13 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 43 (10) ◽

pp. 2093-2104

Author(s):

Qingke YANG ◽

Xuejun DUAN ◽

Lei WANG ◽

Shen WANG ◽

Yeting FAN ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Regional Integration ◽

Yangtze River ◽

Yangtze River Delta ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

The Yangtze River ◽

Land Use Efficiency ◽

Use Efficiency ◽

The Yangtze River Delta

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Does the Construction and Operation of High-Speed Rail Improve Urban Land Use Efficiency? Evidence from China

Land ◽

10.3390/land10030303 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 303

Author(s):

Xinhai Lu ◽

Yifeng Tang ◽

Shangan Ke

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Land Use ◽

High Speed ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Western China ◽

High Speed Rail ◽

Land Use Efficiency ◽

Use Efficiency ◽

The Impact

The construction and operation of high-speed rail (HSR) has become an important policy for China to achieve efficiency and fairness and promote high-quality economic growth. HSR promotes the flow of production factors such as labor and capital and affects economic growth, and may further affect urban land use efficiency (ULUE). To explore the impact of HSR on ULUE, this paper uses panel data of 284 cities in China from 2005 to 2018, and constructs Propensity Score Matching-Differences in Differences model to evaluate the effect of HSR on ULUE. The result of entire China demonstrates that the HSR could significantly improves the ULUE. Meanwhile, this paper also considers the heterogeneity of results caused by geographic location, urban levels and scales. It demonstrates that the HSR has a significantly positive effect on ULUE of Eastern, Central China, and large-sized cities. However, in Western China, in medium-sized, and small-sized cities, the impact of HSR on ULUE is not significant. This paper concludes that construction and operation of HSR should be linked to urban development planning and land use planning. Meanwhile, the cities with different geographical locations and scales should take advantage of HSR to improve ULUE and promote urban coordinated development.

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Does Smart City Construction Improve the Green Utilization Efficiency of Urban Land?

Land ◽

10.3390/land10060657 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 657

Author(s):

Aiping Wang ◽

Weifen Lin ◽

Bei Liu ◽

Hui Wang ◽

Hong Xu

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Development ◽

Financial Development ◽

Smart City ◽

Urban Land ◽

Utilization Efficiency ◽

Land Use Efficiency ◽

Use Efficiency ◽

City Construction ◽

Green Land

Frontier research primarily focuses on the effect of urban development models on land use efficiency, while ignoring the effect of new-type urban development on the green land use efficiency. Accordingly, this paper employs a super efficiency slacks-based measure (super-SBM) model with undesirable outputs to measure the green land use efficiency based on panel data from 152 prefecture-level cities for the period 2004–2017. We construct a difference-in-differences (DID) model in this paper to test the impact of smart city construction on the green utilization efficiency of urban land and its transmission mechanism. The results showed that: (1) The smart city construction significantly improved the green utilization efficiency of urban land, increasing the general efficiency by 15%. (2) There is significant city-size heterogeneity in the effect of smart city construction on improving green utilization efficiency of urban land. The policy effect is more obvious in mega cities and above than in very-large-sized cities. (3) The city-feature heterogeneity results reveal that, in cities with a higher level of human capital, financial development, and information infrastructure, the effectiveness of smart city construction in improving the green utilization efficiency of urban land are more obvious, and in cities with a higher level of financial development, the effects of the urban policy were more optimal. (4) The smart city construction promotes the green utilization efficiency of urban land through by the information industry development and the regional innovation capabilities.

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Is high-tech zone a policy trap or a growth drive? Insights from the perspective of urban land use efficiency

Land Use Policy ◽

10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104583 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 95 ◽

pp. 104583 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Xinhai Lu ◽

Danling Chen ◽

Bing Kuang ◽

Chaozheng Zhang ◽

Chen Cheng

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

High Tech ◽

Land Use Efficiency ◽

Use Efficiency

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Study on Temporal and Spatial Variation Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Land Use Efficiency in Xi’an, China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11236649 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (23) ◽

pp. 6649

Author(s):

Jing Huang ◽

Dongqian Xue

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Area ◽

Influencing Factors ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Western China ◽

Land Use Efficiency ◽

Use Efficiency ◽

Underdeveloped Areas ◽

The City

China’s urban land use has shifted from incremental expansion to inventory eradication. The traditional extensive management mode is difficult to maintain, and the fundamental solution is to improve land use efficiency. Xi’an, the largest central city in Western China, was selected as the research area. The super-efficiency data envelopment analysis (DEA) model and Malmquist index method were used to measure the land use efficiency of each district and county in the city from the micro perspective, and the spatial-temporal change characteristics and main influencing factors of land use efficiency were analyzed, which not only made up for the research content of urban land use efficiency in China’s underdeveloped areas, but also pointed out the emphasis and direction for the improvement of urban land use efficiency. The results showed that: (1) The land use efficiency of Xi’an reflected the land use intensive level of the underdeveloped areas in Western China, that is, the overall intensive level was not high, the gap between the urban internal land use efficiency was large, the land use efficiency of the old urban area and the mature built-up area was relatively high, and the land use efficiency of the emerging expansion area and the edge area was relatively low. (2) Like the eastern economically developed areas, the land use efficiency of western economically underdeveloped areas was generally on the rise, while Xi’an showed the U-shaped upward evolution characteristics, and there were four types of changes in the city, that is, highly intensive, medium intensive, high–medium–low-intensive, and intensive–extensive. (3) Various cities should configure resources and optimize mechanism to improve their land use efficiency based on economic and social development. During the study period, Xi’an showed the law of evolution from the south edge area and the emerging expansion area to the main urban area. (4) The improvement of technological progress was the main contribution factor of the land use efficiency in underdeveloped areas of China, and the low-scale efficiency was the main influence factor that caused low land use efficiency. In future urban land use, efforts should be made to optimize and upgrade technology and strictly control the extensive use of land.

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