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Zhenshan Yang
Other affiliations: University of Cambridge
Bio: Zhenshan Yang is an academic researcher from Chinese Academy of Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Beijing & China. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 29 publications receiving 392 citations. Previous affiliations of Zhenshan Yang include University of Cambridge.
Topics: Beijing, China, Population, Sustainable development, Urbanization
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TL;DR: In this article, a large database of PPP projects in China was firstly built to explore the spatio-temporal evolution in terms of regional differentiation, sectors, investors and contract types.
80 citations
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors showed that 88 out of 336 Chinese municipalities suffered combinations of total, urban and hukou population loss, and used a general ordered logit model to estimate the population loss.
Abstract: Analysis of the latest census data for 2000 and 2010 shows that 88 out of 336 Chinese municipalities suffered combinations of total, urban and hukou population loss. A general ordered logit model e...
51 citations
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper employed a panel vector auto regression model to study the interactive relationships among these factors. And they found that human capital agglomeration has a positive long-term influence on housing prices and economic development, and has become a determinant of regional economic growth.
45 citations
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors constructed an urban sustainability evaluation model covering six subsystems: economy, livelihood, risk, environment, pollution governance, and resource, and five future policy scenarios were designed under the framework of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways to simulate the variation of the urban sustainability index in each city by 2035.
39 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the initiatives and outcomes of economic clusters in relation to urban spatial planning in the periods of planned and market economies in China, through an examination of the planning and development practices in Beijing.
39 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated empirically the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis and found that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth.
464 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on three environmental impacts particularly influenced by population age-structure, including carbon emissions from transport and residential energy and electricity consumption, as well as aggregate carbon emissions for a panel of developed countries, and take as their starting point the STIRPAT framework.
Abstract: We focus on three environmental impacts particularly influenced by population age-structure—carbon emissions from transport and residential energy and electricity consumption—as well as aggregate carbon emissions for a panel of developed countries, and take as our starting point the STIRPAT framework. Among our contributions is to further disaggregate population into three particularly key age groups: 20-34, 35-49, and 50-64, and by doing so demonstrate that population’s environmental impact differs considerably across age-groups, with the older age-groups (ones typically associated with larger households) actually exerting a negative influence. Furthermore, those age-specific population influences are different (in absolute and relative terms) for the different environmental impacts we analyze. Also, we find that urbanization, in developed countries, best measures access to a country’s power grid, and thus, is positively associated with energy consumption in the residential sector. Lastly, we suggest some modelling and methodological improvements to the STIRPAT framework.
388 citations
TL;DR: According to the detected relationships between urbanization and TES, the economic and population urbanization should be strengthened accompanied by slowing or even reducing land urbanization, so as to achieve urban ecological sustainability with less ecosystem services degradation.
343 citations
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22 Jan 2011
TL;DR: Angel et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a five-year study of global urban expansion, initiated in 2005 with a grant from the World Bank that resulted in the report, The Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion.
Abstract: The policy focus report series is published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to address timely public policy issues relating to land use, land markets, and property taxation. Each report is designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice by combining research findings, case studies, and contributions from scholars in a variety of academic disciplines, and from professional practitioners, local officials, and citizens in diverse communities. The authors document the results of a five-year study of global urban expansion, initiated in 2005 with a grant from the World Bank that resulted in the report, The Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion (Angel et al. 2005). That initial phase of the study focused on analyzing and comparing satellite images and urban populations in a global sample of 120 cities circa 1990 and 2000. A second phase of the study, with support from the National Science Foundation , involved a survey of housing conditions and the regulatory regimes governing urban expansion in the same sample of 120 cities. The survey was conducted by local consultants in 2006–2007. The third and fourth phases, with support from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Cities Alliance, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, involved several additional steps and resulted in three Institute-sponsored working papers. They present historical research on urban expansion in 20 U.S. cities from 1910 to 2000; historical analysis of a representative global sample of 30 cities from 1800 to 2000; and the analysis of a new global urban land cover map of all 3,646 named large cities with 100,000 people or more in the year 2000 (Angel et al. 2010a; 2010d; 2010e). The complete data sets, with their associated maps and spreadsheets, are available in The Atlas of Urban Expansion on the Lincoln Institute Web site at
223 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the close link between transport and urban form based on global evidence and highlight the direct and indirect costs of choices made, and present the tipping points which can allow to proceed from sprawling urban development and conventional motorised transport to more compact cities characterised by innovative mobility choices shaped around shared and public transport.
Abstract: This chapter reviews the different pathways which cities are following to become more accessible. By identifying the close link between transport and urban form based on global evidence, it highlights the direct and indirect costs of choices made. It then presents the tipping points which can allow to proceed from sprawling urban development and conventional motorised transport to more compact cities characterised by innovative mobility choices shaped around shared and public transport. The examples used are based on cities worldwide to illustrate emerging trends from both developed and developing countries. Therefore, the recommendations are valuable for a range of stakeholders including local and national policy makers, academics and vehicle manufacturers.
183 citations