nach oben

Social Indicators Research

Erschienen in:

10.01.2024 | Original Research

Evaluation for the Development of Urban Agglomeration Integration: A Case Study of Pearl River Delta

verfasst von: Libiao Bai, Xinyu Zhou, Yuanyuan Tian, Lan Wei

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 3/2024

Einloggen

Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.

search-config

KI-gestützte Suche

Aus

Abstract

With the advancement of urbanization, urban agglomerations have become a main carrier of China’s development. As the ultimate stage of urban agglomeration, the realization of urban agglomeration integration (UAI) plays a dominant role in regional prosperity. Appropriate evaluation of UAI could monitor the integration level and guide its coordinated development. However, little attention has been paid to UAI evaluation research. To this end, this study proposes a comprehensive evaluation model to investigate UAI via the entropy method blended with TOPSIS. Furthermore, utilizing grey relational analysis (GRA), critical dimensions of UAI are also identified to provide concrete evidence. Finally, the proposed model is applied to evaluate the UAI of the Pearl River Delta (PRD), and the main results are as follows: (1) The development trend of the overall UAI in the PRD has increased in fluctuation during the research period, achieving a "good" degree; (2) Except for the policy measures integration (0.882), the integration values for other dimensions are in the range of 0.6 to 0.8 in 2020, reflecting a fairly high level; (3) The infrastructure integration has a major effect on UAI. These findings are favorable in providing references for understanding the current situation of UAI in China, which are of considerable practical significance.

Vorheriger Artikel Does Urban Shrinkage Inhibit Residents' Welfare? From the Perspective of Urban–Rural Development in China

Nächster Artikel Housing Welfare, Personal Responsibility, and Morale in Hong Kong

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Adel, G., & Ade, L. (2014). Theory and practice of regional integration based on the EurAsEC model (Russian point of view). Journal of Eurasian Studies, 5(2), 116–121.CrossRef

Andrea, B. B. (2021). A step further in the theory of regional integration: A look at the South American integration strategy. Journal of International Development, 33(5), 845–873.

Bai, L., Zheng, K., Wang, Z., & Liu, J. (2021). Service provider portfolio selection for project management using a BP neural network. Annals of Operations Research, 308, 41–62.MathSciNetCrossRef

Behrens, K., Gaigne, C., Ottaviano, G. I. P., & Thisse, J. F. (2007). Countries, regions and trade: On the welfare impacts of economic integration. European Economic Review, 51(5), 1277–1301.CrossRef

Bi, J., Zhu, P., Zhang, M., & Lin, S. (2023). Impact of land urbanization on the quality of the ecological environment: Analysis based on the local-neighboring area perspective. Progress in Geography, 42(10), 2033–2046.CrossRef

Cai, X., Qian, Y., Bai, Q., & Liu, W. (2017). Exploration on the financing risks of enterprise supply chain using back propagation neural network. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 367, 112457.MathSciNetCrossRef

Chen, L., Xu, L., & Yang, Z. (2019). Inequality of industrial carbon emissions of the urban agglomeration and its peripheral cities: A case in the Pearl River Delta, China. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 109, 438–447.CrossRef

Cheng, Y., Loo, B. P. Y., & Vickerman, R. (2015). High-speed rail networks, economic integration and regional specialisation in China and Europe. Travel Behaviour and Society, 2(1), 1–14.CrossRef

China Development Research Foundation. (2019). China Urban Agglomeration Integration Report.

Development, National, Reform Commission, N. D., & a. R. C. (2014). National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020). Chinese People’s Publishing House.

Edwards, S. (1996). Exchange rates and the political economy of macroeconomic discipline. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 86(2), 159–163.ADSMathSciNet

Fan, Y., Fang, C., & Zhang, Q. (2019). Coupling coordinated development between social economy and ecological environment in Chinese provincial capital cities-assessment and policy implications. Journal of Cleaner Production, 229, 289–298.CrossRef

Fang, C. (2015). Important progress and future direction of studies on china’s urban agglomerations. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 25(8), 1003–1024.CrossRef

Fang, C., & Yu, D. (2017). Urban agglomeration: An evolving concept of an emerging phenomenon. Landscape and Urban Planning, 162, 126–136.CrossRef

Feng, Y., Lee, C.-C., & Peng, D. (2023). Does regional integration improve economic resilience? Evidence from urban agglomerations in China. Sustainable Cities and Society, 88, 966.CrossRef

Finger, J. M., & Kreinin, M. E. (1979). A measure of “export similarity” and its possible uses. The Economic Journal, 89(356), 905–912.CrossRef

Florida, R., Gulden, T., & Mellander, C. (2008). The rise of the mega-region. Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society, 1(3), 459–476.CrossRef

Gao, X., Zhang, A., & Sun, Z. (2020). How regional economic integration influence on urban land use efficiency? A case study of Wuhan metropolitan area. China. Land Use Policy, 90, 895.

He, D., Yin, Q., Zheng, M., & Gao, P. (2019). Transport and regional economic integration: Evidence from the Chang-Zhu-tan region in China. Transport Policy, 79, 193–203.CrossRef

He, J., Li, C., Yu, Y., Liu, Y., & Huang, J. (2017). Measuring urban spatial interaction in Wuhan Urban Agglomeration, Central China: A spatially explicit approach. Sustainable Cities and Society, 32, 569–583.CrossRef

He, Y., Lin, Y., Zhou, G., Zhu, Y., & Tang, K. (2021). Spatial pattern and drivers of urbanization in China’s mid-level developing urban agglomeration: A case study of Chang-Zhu-Tan. Regional Sustainability, 2, 83–97.CrossRef

Huang, Y., Shen, L., & Liu, H. (2019). Grey relational analysis, principal component analysis and forecasting of carbon emissions based on long short-term memory in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 219, 415–423.CrossRef

Huh, H. S., & Park, C. Y. (2018). Asia-Pacific regional integration index: Construction, interpretation, and comparison. Journal of Asian Economics, 54, 22–38.CrossRef

Kiyong, K. (2010). Tourism flows and trade theory: A panel data analysis with the gravity model. The Annals of Regional Science, 44, 541–557.CrossRef

Krohling, R. A., & Pacheco, A. G. C. (2015). A-TOPSIS-An approach based on TOPSIS for ranking evolutionary algorithms. Procedia Computer Science, 55, 308–317.CrossRef

Li, J., Xie, B., Dong, H., Zhou, K., & Zhang, X. (2023). The impact of urbanization on ecosystem services: Both time and space are important to identify driving forces. Journal of Environmental Management, 347, 89956.CrossRef

Li, L., Ma, S., Zheng, Y., & Xiao, X. (2022). Integrated regional development: Comparison of urban agglomeration policies in China. Land Use Policy, 114, 105939.CrossRef

Li, X., & Sun, B. (2013). Regional integration of the Yangtze River middle reaches urban agglomerations: Measurement and comparison. Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin, 22(8), 996–1003.

Li, Z., He, S., Su, S., Li, G., & Chen, F. (2020). Public services equalization in urbanizing China: Indicators, spatiotemporal dynamics and implications on regional economic disparities. Social Indicators Research, 152(1), 1–65.CrossRef

Lin, S. (2010). Reflections on the integration of urban agglomerations in the perspective of multi-level regional development. Research on Financial and Economic Issues, 6, 28–31.ADS

Liu, X., & Liang, C. (2021). Analysis of comprehensive evaluation of the integration level of urban agglomerations in China and their temporal and spatial evolution characteristics: Concurrent discussion on the influence of the urban agglomeration scale. Journal of Lanzhou University (social Sciences), 49(2), 49–61.

Liu, Y., Zhang, X., Pan, X., Ma, X., & Tang, M. (2020). The spatial integration and coordinated industrial development of urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River economic belt, China. Cities, 13, 104.

Lu, C., Hong, W., Wang, Y., & Zhao, D. (2021). Study on the coupling coordination of urban infrastructure and population in the perspective of urban integration. IEEE Access, 9, 124070–124086.CrossRef

Ma, X., & Ma, Y. (2017). The spatiotemporal variation analysis of virtual water for agriculture and livestock husbandry: A study for Jilin Province in China. Science of the Total Environment, 586, 1150–1161.ADSPubMedCrossRef

Mahfuz, K., Ruhul, S., & Nasser, A.-M. (2017). The gravity model and trade flows: Recent developments in econometric modeling and empirical evidence. Economic Analysis and Policy, 56, 60–71.CrossRef

Mahon, R., & Fanning, L. (2019). Regional ocean governance: Integrating and coordinating mechanisms for polycentric systems. Marine Policy, 107, 103589.CrossRef

Matsumoto, H. (2018). International urban systems and air passenger and cargo flows: Some calculations. Journal of Air Transport Management, 10(4), 239–247.CrossRef

Nana, J., & Wei, J. (2023). How does regional integration policy affect urban resilience? Evidence from urban agglomeration in China. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 12, 104.

Nawaz, S., & Mangla, I. U. (2021). The economic geography of infrastructure in Asia: The role of institutions and regional integration. Research in Transportation Economics., 88, 101061.CrossRef

Onditi, F. (2020). Dominatarian theory of regional integration. Insight on Africa, 13(1), 76–94.CrossRef

Ottaviano, G., Tabuchi, T., & Thisse, J. F. (2002). Agglomeration and trade revisited. International Economic Review, 43(2), 409–435.MathSciNetCrossRef

Pakrooh, P., Hayati, B., Pishbahar, E., Nematian, J., & Brännlund, E. R. (2020). Focus on the provincial inequalities in energy consumption and CO₂ emissions of Iran’s agriculture sector. Science of the Total Environment., 715(1), 137029.ADSPubMedCrossRef

Pang, X. (1997). The conception of regional integration and related development. Progress in Ggeography, 16(2), 41–49.

Ren, Y., Tian, Y., & Xiao, X. (2022). Spatial effects of transportation infrastructure on the development of urban agglomeration integration: Evidence from the Yangtze River economic belt. Journal of Transport Geography, 104, 9956.CrossRef

Slocum, N., & Langenhove, L. V. (2004). The meaning of regional integration: Introducing positioning theory in regional integration studies. Journal of European Integration, 26(3), 227–252.CrossRef

Su, D., Fang, X., Wu, Q., & Cao, Y. (2022). Exploring the spatiotemporal integration evolution of the urban agglomeration through city networks. Land, 11(4), 574.CrossRef

Tian, Y., & Sun, C. (2017). A spatial differentiation study on comprehensive carrying capacity of the urban agglomeration in the Yangtze River economic belt. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 68, 11–22.MathSciNetCrossRef

Tian, Y., Wang, R., Liu, L., & Ren, Y. (2021). A spatial effect study on financial agglomeration promoting the green development of urban agglomerations. Sustainable Cities and Society, 70, 102900.CrossRef

Venables, A. (2015). International trade: Economic integration. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 23, 574–579.CrossRef

Wan, Y., Deng, C., Wu, T., Jin, R., Chen, P., & Kou, R. (2019). Quantifying the spatial integration patterns of urban agglomerations along an inter-city gradient. Sustainability, 11(18), 988596.CrossRef

Wang, J., Wang, S., Li, S., & Feng, K. (2019). Coupling analysis of urbanization and energy-environment efficiency: Evidence from Guangdong province. Applied Energy, 54, 254.

Wang, Y., Yin, S., Fang, X., & Chen, W. (2022). Interaction of economic agglomeration, energy conservation and emission reduction: Evidence from three major urban agglomerations in China. Energy, 241, 122519.CrossRef

World Bank. (2015). East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth. World bank.CrossRef

Wu, H., Li, E., Sun, Y., & Dong, B. (2021). Research on the operation safety evaluation of urban rail stations based on the improved TOPSIS method and entropy weight method. Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 20, 100262.CrossRef

Xiao, R., Tan, G., Huang, B., Li, J., & Luo, Y. (2022). Pathways to sustainable development: Regional integration and carbon emissions in China. Energy Reports., 8, 5137–5145.CrossRef

Xu, X., Zhang, Z., Long, T., Sun, S., & Gao, J. (2021). Mega-city region sustainability assessment and obstacles identification with GIS–entropy–TOPSIS model: A case in Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 294, 126147.CrossRef

Xue, D., Yue, L., Ahmad, F., Draz, M. U., AliChandio, A., Ahmad, M., & Amin, W. (2022). Empirical investigation of urban land use efficiency and influencing factors of the Yellow River basin Chinese cities. Land Use Policy, 117, 106117.CrossRef

Yhee, H., Kim, S., & Kang, S. (2021). GIS-based evaluation method for accessibility of social infrastructure facilities. Applied Sciences, 11(12), 5581.CrossRef

Yi, P., Dong, Q., Li, W., & Wang, L. (2021). Measurement of city sustainability based on the grey relational analysis: The case of 15 sub-provincial cities in China. Sustainable Cities and Society., 73, 103143.CrossRef

Zhang, P., Zhao, Y., Zhu, X., Cai, Z., Xu, J., & Shi, S. (2020). Spatial structure of urban agglomeration under the impact of high-speed railway construction: Based on the social network analysis. Sustainable Cities and Society, 62, 102404.CrossRef

Zhang, X., & Hua, Q. (2018). Comprehensive measurement of integration development in Xuzhou-Huaibei-Suzhou Region. China Population Resources and Environment, 28(12), 91–96.ADSMathSciNet

Zhang, Y., & Xiang, B. (2021). Measurement of the integration level of urban agglomeration and its economic growth effect. Macroeconomics, 2021(12), 136–148.

Zhao, Y., & Bai, Y. (2008). Urban agglomeration connotation and formation mechanism in the view of regional integration. Chongqing Social Science, 9, 34–38.

Zheng, S., & Du, R. (2020). How does urban agglomeration integration promote entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from regional human capital spillovers and market integration. Cities, 97, 98985.CrossRef

Zhou, D., Bonafoni, S., Zhang, L., & Wang, R. (2018). Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect in a highly populated urban agglomeration area in East China. Science of the Total Environment, 628–629, 415–429.ADSPubMedCrossRef

Zhou, X., Bai, L., Bai, J., Tian, Y., & Li, W. (2022). Scenario prediction and critical factors of CO₂ emissions in the Pearl River Delta: A regional imbalanced development perspective. Urban Climate, 44, 101226.CrossRef

Titel: Evaluation for the Development of Urban Agglomeration Integration: A Case Study of Pearl River Delta
verfasst von: Libiao Bai
Xinyu Zhou
Yuanyuan Tian
Lan Wei
Publikationsdatum: 10.01.2024
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 3/2024
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-023-03282-8

Springer Professional

Abstract

Bitte loggen Sie sich ein, um Zugang zu Ihrer Lizenz zu erhalten.

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Weitere Artikel der Ausgabe 3/2024

Identifying the Impact of Social Capital on Quality of Urban Life (Evidence from Iran)

Economic Growth and Human Well-being in India: Evidence through adjusted GDP measure

Correction to: Entangled Inequalities: U.S. Trends in Self‑Rated Health at the Intersection of Gender and Race, 1972–2018

From the Referential Pattern of Universal Values (RPUV) to a new Index of Human Development (HDI)

Housing Welfare, Personal Responsibility, and Morale in Hong Kong

Unveiling a Positive Association Between Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Government Work Evaluation

Premium Partner