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Sustainability is enduring unprecedented challenges, driven by exponential population growth and people’s ever-growing need for a better life. These increasing material and cultural needs have limited human's capability to protect ecosystems. Sustainability assessment is widely used as an effective tool to evaluate current state and propose target measure adjustment. This study constructs a series of indicators on sustainability assessment of urban residential consumption by using emergy ecological footprint method. It is applied to 17 Chinese megacities sustainability assessment of urban residential consumption from 2007 to 2016. The results showed that ecological deficit mainly exists in Jing-Jin-Ji, Yangtze River Delta region and Pearl River Delta region with developed economy. This study divided 17 megacities into four categories, including Shanghai type, Chongqing type, Suzhou type and Xian type, to help government make appropriate policies based on the local conditions.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Project under Grant No. 71473029; the University Innovative Talent Program of Liaoning Province under Grant No. ZX20180003; the National Natural Science Foundation of China International Joint Research Project under Grant No. 71320107006.
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Qu, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, W. et al. Sustainability assessment of urban residential consumption in China megacity. Environ Dev Sustain 23, 7509–7523 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00929-1
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