Does urban–rural integration contribute to environmental health? Exploring the interplay between urban–rural integration and air quality dynamics in Yangtze River middle reaches city cluster

Frontiers in Public Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

Exploring the coordinated relationship between urban-rural integration and air quality has significant implications for promoting development, preventing pollution ensuring residents' health. This study takes Yangtze River middle reaches city cluster as a case study, calculates levels of analyzes their coupled coordination driving factors, explores path development. constructs coupling degree model to analyze development level level. We use trend surface method spatial divergence characteristics quality. In addition, we used geographic detector factors affecting degree. (1) The overall showed an upward trend. High-value regions were concentrated in Wuhan, Chang-Zhu-Tan, Nanchang metropolitan areas. (2) Air Quality Index decline, with most improvements observed Changsha, Jiujiang. (3) increased from 0.570 2013 0.794 2021, 0.337 0.591 2021. link deepened over time, two promote each other, making develop towards environmental friendliness. distribution shows "high west low east, high north south" (4) Per capita GDP, non-agricultural employment ratio, circulation media, population urbanization level, fixed asset investment identified core confirms that are gradually changing direction high-quality coordination. However, there great differences among cities, regional imbalance is prominent, driven by multidimensional factors.

Language: Английский

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Impacts of Urbanization on the Protection of Built Heritage in Traditional Villages: A Case Study of 96 Traditional Villages in Guangzhou, China.

Research Square (Research Square), Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 7, 2025

The rapid urban development has intensified the conflicts between vernacular and modern civilizations. Large-scale expansion have placed traditional villages at risk of gradual disappearance or decline. As tangible carriers cultural value, built heritage these faced varying degrees impact from urbanization. This study, which examines 96 in Guangzhou City, employs a structural equation model incorporating four dimensions urbanization two aspects protection to investigate how affects conservation. findings reveal that: (1) mechanisms through negatively spatial patterns features suburban exurban differ; (2) favorable economic locational factors support buildings; (3) construction enhancement facilities both positive negative impacts on heritage. research provides an important reference for conservation villages, is practical significance realizing sustainable

Language: Английский

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The Spatial Relationship Between Urban–Rural Integration and Economic Development: A Case Study of Urban Agglomeration in the Yellow River Basin

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(4), P. 1438 - 1438

Published: Feb. 10, 2025

Urban–rural integration (URI) is important for achieving rural revitalization and sustainable development. Currently, there a lack of research on URI in prefecture-level cities the Yellow River Basin Urban Agglomerations (YRBUAs), spatial relationship between economic development not clear. This paper evaluates index YRBUA from 2010 to 2022, applies methods such as an exploratory data analysis, variation function, coupling coordination degree, gray correlation analysis explore The study found following: (1) level highest Shandong Peninsula Agglomeration lowest Ningxia Along Agglomeration. rank structure within city cluster dominated by single core. (2) roughly shows distribution characteristics high east low west. (3) are spatially positively correlated. high-value agglomeration areas both mainly distributed Peninsula. (4) degree

Language: Английский

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Exploring the Impact of Green Finance on Sustainable Rural Development: Evidence From 283 Cities in China

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 2025(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Green finance is of vital significance for global rural sustainable development. This paper aims to explore the impact green on Based panel data obtained from 283 prefecture‐level cities in China over period 2004 2022, a development indicator system was constructed under DPSIR framework. By employing fixed‐effects model, moderation effect analysis, and spatial Durbin role its effects proposed. The results these analyses reveal following: (1) Rural exhibits cyclical expansion–contraction trend; (2) promotes sustainability, confirmed by robustness checks; (3) environmental regulations digital economy play positive moderating enhancing development; (4) terms effects, has within region but can exert negative spillover surrounding regions. findings, it proposed that layout should be strengthened, supervision enhanced, promoted. Such recommendations represent critical measures which serve as foundation stimulate provide valuable references relevant policy formulation.

Language: Английский

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Promoting the optimization of ecosystem services supply-flow-demand by integrating urban-rural metacoupling interactions

Transactions in Earth Environment and Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 20, 2025

Clarifying how to systematically manage ecosystem services is crucial for addressing urban-rural conflicts and promoting sustainable development, while service optimization offers an effective approach. The of encompasses not only the traditional supply demand but also entire process, including supply, flow, demand, especially complex socio-ecological systems. metacoupling framework can offer a feasible theoretical approach advancing spatial supply-flow-demand adaptively explain interaction relationships between urban rural regions. This study first explored patterns characteristics systems understand mechanisms, intracoupling, pericoupling, telecoupling, areas, fringes, areas. Furthermore, by integrating with process assessment approaches, we interpreted varied interactions nexus. Finally, metacoupling-based was developed, which considers reducing supply-demand trade-offs, balancing deficits, improving flow efficiency. constructed in this provides new research perspective adaptive comprehensive management urban, fringe, services.

Language: Английский

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Driving mechanisms and threshold identification of landscape ecological risk: A nonlinear perspective from the Qilian Mountains, China

Ecological Indicators, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 173, P. 113342 - 113342

Published: March 26, 2025

Language: Английский

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Exploring spatiotemporal coupling effects between built environment and ecosystem health: Toward static–dynamic sustainable management in waterfront cities

Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 145389 - 145389

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Improving landscape sustainability across urban and rural regions in a changing world

Landscape Ecology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 40(5)

Published: April 28, 2025

Language: Английский

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Intensifying separation or collaborative prosperity? The impact of The Belt and Road Initiative on China's urban-rural integration development from a spatial justice lens

Habitat International, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 156, P. 103249 - 103249

Published: Dec. 12, 2024

Language: Английский

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