Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin

Ecological waterway construction and waterway health protection have become a trend and requirement of waterway development worldwide. How to assess the health status of a waterway is a fundamental concern for waterway sustainable development. This study established a comprehensive framework for health assessment of the waterway from Chongqing to Yibin in the upper reach of the Yangtze River, focusing on the coordinated development of river functions or services including navigation, flood discharge, sediment transport, water supply, self-purification, ecology, and recreation. This framewor

The development of resilient cities has become a critical global issue with respect to the stimulation of sustainable economic, social, and ecological advancement. The Yangtze River Delta region, which is the most densely populated region in China, is undergoing the fastest urbanization and is achieving the highest level of economic development in the country. Thus, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the evolution of spatiotemporal city resilience in this region. For this study, the resilience of 41 core cities in the Yangtze River Delta in China from 2010 to 202

According to the new development pattern, implementing the development strategy driven by scientific and technological innovation (STI) is an important measure for each region to improve the quality of regional economic development. Exploring the effect of STI on the regional high-quality economic development (HED) is helpful to break the bottleneck and enhance the momentum of regional economic development. The Yangtze River Delta, located in the east coast of China, is the frontier of STI and economic development. Based on theoretical analysis, this paper uses the entropy method to calcula

Urban land-use efficiency (ULUE) has been increasingly recognized as an issue of land-use management across the world in the last century as the globe experienced unprecedented rapid urban expansion. However, although a large body of studies was dedicated to analyzing the driving forces of ULUE, literature was rarely focused on the impacts of regional cooperation on ULUE. To bridge the knowledge gap, we used the Chinese trailblazer of regional cooperation–Yangtze River delta (YRD)—as a case to reveal the impacts of regional cooperation on ULUE. Social network analysis and a supe

Market services industries are closely related to residents’ lives, and its spatial distribution has an important impact on satisfying residents’ consumption needs and promoting economic development. In recent years, with the rapid development of urban–rural integration and the gradual implementation of a rural revitalization strategy, rural areas around metropolises have become the “frontier” of urban geographic expansion, causing the rural market services industries to specialize, commercialize, and modernize. Taking Wuhan as a case study, the spatial distrib