Planning and coordinated response mechanism of economic and ecological services in urban expansion

Abstract

Against the backdrop of urban sustainable development around the world, how to coordinate both economic growth and ecological benefits in urban space becomes an important problem. Therefore, this study simulated and predicted the spatiotemporal changes in urban economy and ecosystem service value (E.S.V.) equivalent ratio under the current policies by 2030, and analysed how adjusting planning policies influences economy and ecology. This process was based on the future land use simulation (F.L.U.S.) model of coupled neural network, and on methods assessing the spatial changes in ecosystem services and land economy. This study aims to analyse urban land economy and E.S.V., and assess how China’s land spatial planning guides and promotes high-quality urban economic development. Results show that artificial intelligence (A.I.) simulation can forecast the results of spatial planning policies of national lands, to make policy-making more forward-looking. The guidance of planning policies on urban expansion accelerates the increase in economic value of urban residential and commercial lands, thereby promoting the economic growth. However, adjusted planning policies may lead to ecological destruction. So, this study provides model verifications and path guidance to realise coordinated sustainable development between economy and ecology, serving as an important reference to formulating proper policies for urban development.

Keywords:

• Economic development
• ecosystem service value (E.S.V.)
• urban expansion
• planning policy
• future land use simulation model (F.L.U.S.)
• sustainable development

JEL CODES:

• R1
• R11
• R14

Authors’ contributions

Huanchun Huang: Conceptualisation, Data Curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – Review & Editing. Keng Chen: Conceptualisation, Data Curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualisation, Writing – Original Draft. Hao Zhang: Methodology, Writing – Review & Editing. Lijian Ren: Conceptualisation, Methodology, Writing-Review & Editing, Supervision.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Geolocation information

Yanji City, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, China.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China; Brand Professional Construction Engineering Project of Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province.