Accelerated Urban Expansion in Lhasa City and the Implications for Sustainable Development in a Plateau City

doi:10.3390/su9091499

	Accelerated Urban Expansion in Lhasa City and the Implications for Sustainable Development in a Plateau City
	Tang, Wei 1; Zhou, Tiancai 2,3; Sun, Jian 2; Li, Yurui 2; Li, Weipeng 4
刊名	SUSTAINABILITY
	2017-09-01
卷号	9 期号:9 页码:19
关键词	Lhasa urban expansion determinants plateau city policy framework
ISSN号	2071-1050
DOI	10.3390/su9091499
通讯作者	Sun, Jian(sunjian@igsnrr.ac.cn) ; Li, Yurui(liyr@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Urbanization challenges regional sustainable development, but a slight expansion mechanism was revealed in a plateau city. We have integrated the urban expansion process and analyzed its determinants in Lhasa (Tibet), and we provide insightful suggestions for urban management and planning for Lhasa. The full continuum of the urban expansion process has been captured using time-series of high-resolution remote sensing data (1990-2015). Four categories of potential determinants involved in economic, demographic, social, and government policy factors were selected, and redundancy analysis was employed to define the contribution rates of these determinants. The results illustrate that considerable urban expansion occurred from 1990 to 2015 in Lhasa, with the area of construction land and transportation land increasing at rates of 117.2% and 564.7%, respectively. The urban expansion in the center of Lhasa can be characterized as temperate sprawl from 1990 through 2008, primarily explained by governmental policies and investment, economic development, tourist growth, and increased governmental investment resulting in faster urban expansion from 2008 to 2015, mainly occurring in the east, south, and west of Lhasa. In contrast with other cities of China, central government investment and "pairing-up support" projects have played an important role in infrastructure construction in Lhasa. The miraculous development of the tourism industry had prominent effects on this economic development and urbanization after 2006, due to the running of the Tibetan Railway. An integrative and proactive policy framework, the "Lhasa development model", having important theoretical, methodological, and management implications for urban planning and development, has been proposed.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41201167] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41571166] ; Foundation of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS[Y4R2190190] ; West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Science
WOS关键词	LAND-USE CHANGE ; SPATIAL EXPANSION ; DRIVING FORCES ; ECONOMIC TRANSITION ; CHINA ; LANDSCAPE ; DYNAMICS ; SHANGHAI ; PATTERNS ; POLICY
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI AG
WOS记录号	WOS:000411621200008
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Foundation of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS ; West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Science
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/62044]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Sun, Jian; Li, Yurui
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Mt Surface Proc & Ecol Regulat, Inst Mt Hazard & Environm, Chengdu 640016, Sichuan, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Chengdu Univ Technol, Coll Earth Sci, Chengdu 610059, Sichuan, Peoples R China 4.China West Normal Univ, Land & Resources Coll, Nanchong 637009, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tang, Wei,Zhou, Tiancai,Sun, Jian,et al. Accelerated Urban Expansion in Lhasa City and the Implications for Sustainable Development in a Plateau City[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2017,9(9):19.
APA	Tang, Wei,Zhou, Tiancai,Sun, Jian,Li, Yurui,&Li, Weipeng.(2017).Accelerated Urban Expansion in Lhasa City and the Implications for Sustainable Development in a Plateau City.SUSTAINABILITY,9(9),19.
MLA	Tang, Wei,et al."Accelerated Urban Expansion in Lhasa City and the Implications for Sustainable Development in a Plateau City".SUSTAINABILITY 9.9(2017):19.