Zhongming Lu

TL;DR: Four alternative scenarios, including more compact growth (MCG), riparian vegetation buffer (RVB), soil conservation (SC), and combined development (CD) scenarios were developed to explore the optimal land use strategies which can enhance the ESs, and showed that forest and wetland had the greatest decreases and most of ESs decreased significantly.

TL;DR: In this article, 12 guiding principles of infrastructure ecology were proposed for urban planners, engineers and other decision-makers in an urban system for urban (re)development, which will result in urban re-development that requires lower investment of financial and natural resources to build and maintain, is more sustainable (e.g., uses less materials and energy and generates less waste) and enables a greater and more equitable opportunities for the creation of wealth and comfort.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) model to assess the changes in ecosystem services (ESs) based on land use patterns in Beijing from 1984 to 2015.

TL;DR: The results show air pollution presented N-shape relations with the industrialization level in China in the periods from 2003 to 2008, 2009 to 2013, and 2014 to 2017, while air pollution was reduced in spite of some fluctuations in China.

TL;DR: It was found that the overall quantity of pollutant discharge decreased as cities became more economically developed during the years 2000–2010, however, larger and denser cities, and wealthier cities in the eastern part of China tended to have larger quantities of pollutants discharge, resource consumption, and changes in land use.