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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102417
	Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities
	Cheng D.; Xue Q.; Hubacek K.; Fan J.; Shan Y.; Zhou Y.; Coffman D.M.; Managi S.; Zhang X.
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	72
英文摘要	The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future. To achieve the goal, tracking progress — not just on a national level, but locally — is crucial to guide future policy development. While sustainability assessment at the national evel is quite advanced in China, similar assessments focusing at the regional or even at the city-level are currently lacking. Here, we advanced the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI) framework, which is firstly proposed by the United Nations Development Programme, through taking water wealth into account and adjusting the variable based on data availability. Then we investigate the sustainability performance of 210 cities in China in 2016 via the advanced version of the IWI framework. The analysis makes a holistic assessment based on produced, human, and natural capital, as well as considering heterogeneities in economy, social, and environmental conditions across these cities. We find that cities clustered in the eastern parts of China are characterized by high levels of sustainability performance and increasing capacities for sustainability, largely driven by their high quality and quantity of human capital. In comparison, the western cities have a large amount of low-skilled human capital and low levels of produced capital, which determines their low sustainability performance. Cities clustered in the north are heavily dependent on low value-added products and resource-intensive industries. Furthermore, we make projections of the IWI and its three components for different cities from 2020 to 2030, referring to the index systems presented in city planning which describe the development speed of income, education, fixed asset investment, forests etc. In the future, cities in central and western clusters show considerable potential for increasing IWI per capita, whereas cities with a dominant energy sector in the north would face declining capacity for sustainability due to the exhaustion of fossil fuels and raw materials. By fully taking account of and adapting to local circumstances, we tailor-design pathways for different types of cities to grow their sustainability potentials. Those resources-dependent cities in the north could avoid the impending decline by gradually developing their human and produced capital while abandoning their resource dependency. Our study contributes to city-level sustainable development in China through the lens of per capita IWI and the potential future dynamics of changing compositions in their capital. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Chinese cities Human capital Inclusive wealth Natural capital Produced capital Sustainable development
语种	英语
scopus关键词	environmental conditions; human capital; resource; sustainability; Sustainable Development Goal; tracking; United Nations Development Program; China
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249538
作者单位	Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University, Weihai, China; Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; Center for Sustainable Development and Energy Policy Research, School of Energy and Mining Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China; Key Laboratory for City Cluster Environmental Safety and Green Development of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China; The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London, London, UK, United Kingdom; Urban Institute & Department of Civil Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0385, Japan; The Administrative Centre for China's...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cheng D.,Xue Q.,Hubacek K.,et al. Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities[J],2022,72.
APA	Cheng D..,Xue Q..,Hubacek K..,Fan J..,Shan Y..,...&Zhang X..(2022).Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities.Global Environmental Change,72.
MLA	Cheng D.,et al."Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities".Global Environmental Change 72(2022).