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Construction land suitability assessment in rapid urbanizing cities for promoting the implementation of United Nations sustainable development goals: a case study of Nanchang, China

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Cities, the main place of human settlements, are required to offer high-quality environments to citizens. To achieve this, it is essential to overcome several mega challenges of urbanization, population growth, economic development, environmental deterioration, and climate change. Urban infrastructure construction is capable of enhancing economic growth and promoting urban sustainability, while it will lead to many environmental problems if the infrastructure construction is not properly planned and designed. To address this challenge, this study aims to understand how to ensure the construction land expansion sustainably in rapidly urbanizing cities. In particular, this study analyzed the suitability of construction land expansion in Nanchang, a rapid urbanizing city in China, from 1995 to 2015. The results indicate that the urban expansion speed from 1995 to 2005 was faster than that from 2005 to 2015. The construction land in Nanchang was expanding towards “all directions” and sprawled towards surrounding districts and counties from the original core areas. Nevertheless, about 70% of the Nanchang area was allowable construction area (highly suitable expansion, relatively suitable expansion, and basically suitable expansion areas), indicating that the abundant reserved land resources for urban construction. This study also identified multiple suitability expansion paths of construction land, providing a scientific guidance for the land use planning of Nanchang city. Overall, this study provides a reference to the understanding of the construction land expansion for the achievement of United Nations sustainable development goals. It can also promote the understanding of spatial territory planning and practically enhance the capabilities of land use planning and design.

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Funding

This research was funded by Research Center of Geological Resource Economics and Management, grant number 20GL02, the Doctoral Research Initiation fund of East China University of Technology, grant number DHBK2019184, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number 41961032, 41602258.

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  1. Faculty of Geomatics, East China University of Technology, Nanchang, 30013, China

    Rujin Huang, Yunju Nie, Linghua Duo & Xiaoping Zhang

  2. Research Center of Geological Resource Economics and Management, East China University of Technology, Nanchang, 30013, China

    Rujin Huang & Linghua Duo

  3. Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA

    Xiaoping Zhang

  4. School of Economics and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

    Zhenhua Wu

  5. School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China

    Jiacheng Xiong

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Rujin Huang and Linghua Duo conceptualized, wrote, and revised this paper. Yunju Nie funded and reviewed this paper. Xiaoping Zhang, Zhenhua Wu, and Jiacheng Xiong analyzed data and reviewed the paper.

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Huang, R., Nie, Y., Duo, L. et al. Construction land suitability assessment in rapid urbanizing cities for promoting the implementation of United Nations sustainable development goals: a case study of Nanchang, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 25650–25663 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-12336-0

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