Climate change and urbanization in the Yangtze River Delta

被引：175

作者：

Gu, Chaolin ^{[1
]}

Hu, Lingqian ^{[2
]}

Zhang, Xiaoming ^{[1
]}

Wang, Xiaodan ^{[1
]}

Guo, Jing ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Tsinghua Univ, Sch Architecture, Dept Urban Planning, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China

[2] Univ Wisconsin, Sch Architecture & Urban Planning, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA

来源：

HABITAT INTERNATIONAL | 2011年 / 35卷 / 04期

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

Urbanization; Climate change; The Yangtze River Delta; CHINA;

D O I：

10.1016/j.habitatint.2011.03.002

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

The Yangtze River Delta (YRD), one of China's most developed, dynamic, densely populated and concentrated industrial area, is growing into an influential world-class metropolitan area and playing an important role in China's economic and social development. The formation and the urbanization process of YRD are inseparable from climate change. This paper explores such interrelationship from two perspectives. On one hand, using historic data, we summarized the urbanization process in the YRD, and concluded that climate change has been shaping the Delta and its socioeconomic development. On the other hand, the urbanization process of the Delta has shaped its geography and built environment, which, however, are not adaptable to future climate change. Potential disruptive effects include large flooded land area, flood disasters, production and energy inefficiency, and other environmental threats. It is imperative to adopt policies and programs to mitigate and adapt to climate change in the fast urbanization process. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：544 / 552

页数：9

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