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Economic development, urban expansion, and sustainable development in Shanghai

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Studies of urbanization effects in Chinese cities from the aspect of the coupled development of economy and environment are rare due to data limitations. This paper studied Shanghai’s fast urban expansion and examined the dynamic relationship between economic growth and environment consequences at the district level. We extracted data on urban built-up area and land surface temperature from remote sensing images. We analyzed the patterns of urban expansion and land use change and explained the dynamic relationship between economic development and environment conditions. We attributed the uneven economic development and environmental change in districts of Shanghai to four main institutional factors: (1) the role of the government, (2) the multi-level urban planning system, (3) land market reform, and (4) the economic restructuring.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the funding of Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Y5110009), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Land Cover and Land Use Program through the grant to Michigan State University (NNX09AI32G), Zhi-Jiang Young Scholars Program through Zhejiang Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project (11ZJQN042YB), Qian-Jiang Talent Program (2011C), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2012XZZX012), and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (CYW010511). We would also like to thank Huiqing Huang and Yong Liu for their helps with data processing.

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  1. Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, 268 Kaixuan Road, Hangzhou, 310029, China

    Wenze Yue

  2. School of Planning, Design and Construction and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48823, USA

    Peilei Fan

  3. Department of Geography and Institute of Public and International Affairs, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA

    Yehua Dennis Wei

  4. Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48823, USA

    Jiaguo Qi

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Yue, W., Fan, P., Wei, Y.D. et al. Economic development, urban expansion, and sustainable development in Shanghai. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 28, 783–799 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-012-0623-8

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