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›› 2019, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 626-632.DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2019.05.008

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The main factors influencing urban living resource consumption and pollution emission in China

YANG Xiaojiao1,2, WANG Xiaoke1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China;
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2018-05-05 Revised:2018-06-05 Online:2019-09-15

Abstract: The guarantee of the resource and environment directly affects the speed and quality of China's urbanization and restricts the sustainable development of urbanization. Based on the correlation analysis and redundancy analysis, we studied the main factors influencing urban living resource consumption and pollution emission. The results are showed as follows.1) The main influencing factors on the consumption of living resource in China's provincial capital cities were climate (the explained variation being 0.40), followed by economic development level (0.14) and urban scale (0.11). 2)The urban scale was the main influencing factor on pollution emission (the explained variation being 0.21), followed by economic development level (0.17) and climate (0.16). Therefore, it is of great significance to the sustainable development of China's cities to formulate appropriate policies of resource development and environmental governance in view of the factors affecting urban resource consumption and pollution emission.

Key words: resource consumption, pollution emission, influencing factors

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