Abstract
The study investigated the response of surface water quality to urbanization in Xi'an, China. We qualitatively described the change in urban land use from 1996 to 2003, analyzed the status of the surface water environment, and constructed a model of urban expansion to simulate the water environment's response to urbanization. Our results revealed that patterns of land use changed dramatically, the rate of economic growth exceeded that of urbanization during the study period, and increasing urban land use was correlated with fluctuations in water quality. The simulated results suggested that urbanization had reached the environmental carrying capacity based on the average land utility and the marginal costs of pollution.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 731-749 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Journal of Environmental Management |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
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SDG 15 Life on Land
Keywords
- Land-use change
- Surface water quality
- Urbanization
- Xi'an
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