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Spatio-temporal evolution and driving effects of the ecological intensity of urban well-being in the Yangtze River Delta

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  • Meijuan Hu
  • Suleman Sarwar
  • Zaijun Li
  • Nianxing Zhou

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The fundamental goal of sustainable urban development is to maximize human well-being with minimum ecological consumption. The ecological intensity of urban well-being (EIWB) achieves an effective linkage among economic, social, and ecological systems, and it is an effective indicator for evaluating urban sustainable development. This study analyzed the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics and driving effects of the ecological intensity of urban well-being over 2000–2019 in the Yangtze River Delta. It was found that as the ecological consumption per unit well-being output decreased gradually, the improvement in well-being level and the increase in ecological consumption were increasingly delinked, and regional EIWB and its sub-dimensions tended to fluctuate. Urban EIWB was dominated by low and lower levels, urban economic well-being (ECWB) was increasingly dominated by the lower type, and urban social well-being (SOWB) and environmental well-being (ENWB) were dominated by the low level. The resource consumption, technology, and well-being effects distinctively inhibited the decrease in regional EIWB and the economic effect exerted an obvious boosting function, whereas environmental consumption effect, scale effect, and efficiency effect had no obvious impact. The variation in urban EIWB was mainly driven by two-factor dominance, featuring economic and technological effects.

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  • Meijuan Hu & Suleman Sarwar & Zaijun Li & Nianxing Zhou, 2022. "Spatio-temporal evolution and driving effects of the ecological intensity of urban well-being in the Yangtze River Delta," Energy & Environment, , vol. 33(6), pages 1181-1202, September.
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    DOI: 10.1177/0958305X211069324
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