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Comprehensive measurement for carrying capacity of resources and environment of city clusters in central China

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Studying the carrying capacity of resources and environment of city clusters in the central China has important practical guidance significance for promoting the healthy, sustainable and stable development of this region. According to their influencing factors and reciprocity mechanism, using system dynamics approaches, this paper built a SD model for measuring the carrying capacity of resources and environment of the city clusters in the central China, and through setting different development models, the comprehensive measurement analysis on the carrying capacity was carried out. The results show that the model of promoting socio-economic development under the protection of resources and environment is the optimal model for promoting the harmony development of resources, environment, society and economy in the city clusters. According to this model, the optimum population scale of the city clusters in 2020 is 42.80×106 persons, and the moderate economic development scale is 22.055×1012 yuan (RMB). In 1996–2020 the carrying capacity of resources and environment in the city clusters took on obvious phase-change characteristics. During the studied period, it is basically at the initial development stage, and will come through the development process from slow development to speedup development.

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  1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Chuanglin Fang

  2. The Administration Centre of Urban-Rural Planning, Ministry of House & Urban-Rural Development of P. R. China, Beijing, 100835, China

    Xiaoli Liu

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Foundation item: Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40971101), Major Project of 11th Five-Year Scientific and Technological Support Plan of China (No. 2006BAJ14B03)

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Fang, C., Liu, X. Comprehensive measurement for carrying capacity of resources and environment of city clusters in central China. Chin. Geogr. Sci. 20, 281–288 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-010-0281-z

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