GIS based measurement and regulatory zoning of urban ecological vulnerability

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9924-9942

  Zhang, Xiaorui ^a   Wang, Zhenbo ^b,c   Lin, Jing ^b,c  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

GIS; Measurement; Regulation; Urban ecological; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; BUFFER ZONE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VULNERABILITY; ZONATION;

ANHUI; CHINA; HEFEI;

EID: 84940471338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7089924     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. White, G.F. Natural Hazards; Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK,1974.
2. Chambers, R. Vulnerability, coping and policy-Introduction. IDS Bull. Inst. Dev. Stud. 1989, 20, 1-7.
3. Kates, R.W.; Clark, W.C.; Corell, R. Environment and development: Sustainability science. Science 2001, 292, 641-642.
4. O'Brien, K.; Leichenkob, R.; Kelkar, U. Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors: Climate change and globalization in India. Glob. Environ. Change 2004, 14, 303-313.
5. Wolf, S. Vulnerability and risk: Comparing assessment approaches. Nat. Hazards 2012, 61, 1099-1113.
6. Gravelle, G.; Mimura, N. Vulnerability assessment of sea-level rise in Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. Sustain. Sci. 2008, 3, 171-180.
7. Davison, J.E. Bringing indices of species vulnerability to climate change into geographic space:An assessment across the Coronado national forest. Biodivers. Conserv. 2012, 21, 189-204.
8. Grasso, M.; Moneo, M.; Arena, M. Assessing social vulnerability to climate change in Samoa. Reg. Environ. Change 2014, 14, 1329-1341.
9. Lankao, P.R.; Qin, H. Conceptualizing urban vulnerability to global climate and environmental change. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 2011, 3, 142-149.
10. Bhuiyan, J.A.N.; Dutta, D. Analysis of flood vulnerability and assessment of the impacts in coastal zones of Bangladesh due to potential sea-level rise. Nat. Hazards 2012, 61, 729-743.
11. Duzgun, H.S.B. An integrated earthquake vulnerability assessment framework for urban areas. Nat. Hazards 2011, 59, 917-947.
12. Eckert, S. Remote sensing-based assessment of tsunami vulnerability and risk in Alexandria, Egypt. Appl. Geogr. 2012, 32, 714-723.
13. Bosom, E.; Jimenez, J.A. Probabilistic coastal vulnerability assessment to storms at regional scale-application to Catalan beaches (NW Mediterranean). Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 2011, 11, 475-484.
14. Buxton, M. Vulnerability to bushfire risk at Melbourne's urban fringe: The failure of regulatory land use planning. Geogr. Res.2011,49, 1-12.
15. Varis, O.; Kummu, M.; Salmivaara, A. Ten major rivers in monsoon Asia-Pacific: An assessment of vulnerability. Appl. Geogr.2012, 32, 441-454.
16. Dutta, I.; Foster, J.; Mishra, A. On measuring vulnerability to poverty. Soc. Choice Welf. 2011, 37, 743-761.
17. El-Rashidy, R.A.; Grant-Muller, S. An assessment method for highway network vulnerability. J. Transp. Geogr. 2014, 34, 34-43.
18. Almeida, M.C.M.; Caiaffa, W.T.; Assuncao, R.M. Spatial vulnerability to dengue in a Brazilian urban area during a 7-Year surveillance. J. Urban Health 2007, 84, 334-345.
19. Chatterjea, K. Severe wet spells and vulnerability of urban slopes: Case of Singapore. Nat. Hazards 2011, 56, 1-18.
20. Noronha Vaz, E. Urban heritage endangerment at the interface of future cities and past heritage: A spatial vulnerability assessment. Habitat Int. 2012, 36, 287-294.
21. Malczewski, J. Multi-Criteria GIS and Decision Analysis; John Wiley and Sons: London, UK, 1999.
22. Karnatak, H.C. Multicriteria spatial decision analysis in web GIS environment. Geoinformatica2007, 11, 407-429.
23. Malczewski, J. GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis: A survey of the literature. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 2006, 20, 703-726.
24. McHarg, I.L. Design with Nature; Natural History Press: New York, NY, USA, 1969.
25. Steinitz, C.; Parker, P.; Jordan, L. Hand-drawn overlays: Their history and prospective uses. Landsc. Archit. 1976, 66, 444-454.
26. Zhao, D.S.; Wu, S.H. Responses of vulnerability for natural ecosystem to climate change in China. Acta Geogr. Sin. 2013, 68, 602-610.
27. Zhang, H.M.; Sha, J.M. RS and GIS based study on vulnerability of ecological environment in Fuzhou City. J. Nat. Disasters 2007, 16, 133-137.
28. Jing, Y.P.; Zhang, S.W.; Li, Y. Environment vulnerability and spatial difference characteristics in Naiman banner. Agric. Res. AridAreas 2008, 26, 159-164.
29. Lu, D.A.; Tan, S.C.; Xia, J.S. Analysis on the ecological vulnerability of Dali City based on its landscape pattern and sensitivity to soil and water loss. Yunnan Geogr. Environ. Res. 2009, 21, 92-96.
30. Xu, G.C.; Kang, M.Y.; Metzger, M.; Li, Y.F. Ecological vulnerability research for Xiliingol league Northern China. Acta Ecol. Sin. 2012, 32, 1643-1653.
31. Zhang, L.; Song, G.; Meng, F.; Wang, X.W. Spatiotemporal variation analysis of the land ecological vulnerability in Ningan City. Res. Soil Water Conserv. 2014, 21, 133-137.
32. Wang, Y.; Fang, C.L.; Zhang, Q. Progress and prospect of urban vulnerability. Prog. Geogr. 2013, 32, 755-768.
33. Tunner, B.L. A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2003, 100, 8074-8079.
34. Adger, W.N.; Kelly, P.M. Social vulnerability to climate change and the architecture of entitlements. Mitig. Adapt. Strateg. Glob. Change 1999, 4, 253-266.
35. Adger, W.N. Vulnerability. Glob. Environ. Change 2006, 16, 268-281.
36. Jorgensen, S.E. Explanation of ecological rules and observation by application of ecosystem theory and ecological models. Ecol. Model. 2002, 158, 241-248.
37. Ólafsdóttir, R.; Runnström, M.C. A GIS Approach to Evaluating Ecological Sensitivity for Tourism Development in Fragile Environments. A Case Study from SE Iceland. Scand. J. Hosp. Tour. 2009, 9, 22-38.
38. Alberti, M.; Marzluff, J.M. Ecological resilience in urban ecosystems: Linking urban patterns to human and ecological functions. Urban Ecosyst. 2004, 7, 241-265.
39. Ye, J.A.; Song, X.D.; Niu, X.Y.; Li, X. Geographical Information and Planning Support System; Science Press: Beijing, China, 2006.
40. Feizizadeh, B.; Blaschke, T. An uncertainty and sensitivity analysis approach for GIS-based multicriteria landslide susceptibility mapping. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 2014, 28, 610-638.
41. Chen, Y.; Khan, S.; Yu, J. Spatial sensitivity analysis of multicriteria weights in GIS-based land suitability evaluation. Environ. Model. Softw. 2010, 25, 1582-1591.
42. Yu, J.; Chen, Y.; Liu, J.Y.; Wu, J.P.; Fu, J.; Xu, H. One-At-A-Time based Weight Sensitivity Analysisin Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Making. Resour. Sci. 2014, 36, 1870-1879.
43. Saaty, T.L. The Analytic Hierarchy Process; McGraw-Hill: New York, NY, USA, 1980.
44. Gu, J.; Li, X.; Huang, C.L. Land cover classification based on time series MODIS NDVI data in Heihe River basin. Adv. Earth Sci. 2010, 25, 317-326.
45. Villagra, P.; Rojas, C.; Ohno, R.; Xue, M.; Gomez, K. A GIS-base exploration of the relationships between open space systems and urban form for the adaptive capacity of cities after an earthquake: The cased of two Chilean cities. Appl. Geogr. 2014, 48, 64-78.
46. Zong, Y.G.; Wang, R.; Wang, C.G.; Wang, H.Y.; Zhang, L. Ecological suitability assessment on land use based on potential-constrain approach: The case of urbanized areas in Dalian city, China. Geogr. Res. 2007, 26, 1117-1126.
47. Hiddink, J. G; Kaiser, M.J. Implications of Liebig's law of the minimum for the use of ecological indicators based on abundance. Ecography 2005, 28, 264-271.
48. Fang, C.L. Issues of resources and environment protection in China's rapid urbanization process and suggestions on countermeasures. Bull. Chin. Acad. Sci. 2009, 24, 468-474.
49. Shan, J.J. Vulnerability analysis in the process of urbanization in China. J. Eng. Stud. 2011, 3, 240-248.