Development and application of an assessment model to evaluate the sustainability of a town
城镇发展的可持续性评价方法及其应用

Sustainability assessment is a fundamental guide for the sustainable development of a town. Town ecosystems are comprised of both artificial ecosystems (such as population,society,economy,etc.) and natural ecosystems (such as resources,the environment,etc.) which form a unified whole through energy,material and information transmission and interaction. In this paper,we used three indexes-"development degree","coordination degree" and "supporting degree" -in a multi-objective method to build a model to evalu...