%0 Journal Article
%T The comprehensive evaluation of China’s urbanization and effects on resources and environment<br>
%A CHEN Mingxing
%A LU Dadao
%A ZHA Liangsong
%A <br>
%J 地理学报
%D 2010
%I 
%X This paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system for the urbanization level in China in terms of four aspects of urbanization connotation: population, economy, society, and land. A comprehensive measurement is carried out for the Chinese urbanization between 1981 and 2006 based on the Entropy method. The results show that the comprehensive level of urbanization in China has a continuous increase with the major features of economic growth and a rapid evolution of the geographical landscape, followed by population urbanization and then social urbanization of health care standard; the distinguished evolutional characteristics can also be found in each of the subsystems. The integrated evolution of urbanization has a profound effect on the resources, energy and the environment, making the land resources and energy security situation under severe pressure. The environment pressure is also increased further.
%K urbanization
%K comprehensive evaluation
%K resources
%K environment
%K Entropy method
%K China<br>
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