Mapping Carbon and Water Networks in the North China Urban Agglomeration

Zheng，Heran1; Zhang，Zongyong1,2; Zhang，Zengkai3; Li，Xian1,4; Shan，Yuli5; Song，Malin6; Mi，Zhifu7; Meng，Jing7; Ou，Jiamin1; Guan，Dabo8

2019-09-20

10.1016/j.oneear.2019.08.015

One Earth   影响因子和分区

2590-3330

2590-3322

Our future is urban. With more than two-thirds of the global population expected to live in cities by 2050, urban sustainability is an essential part of sustainable development but remains poorly understood for urban agglomerations, which continue to develop and grow. Here, we construct a multiregional input-output table at the city level and investigate the impacts of water and carbon flows on the intercity supply chain of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei agglomeration in 2012. Our analysis reveals an economic-environmental imbalance whereby Beijing and Tianjin prosper at the expense of Hebei cities. Hebei cities work as producers for Beijing and Tianjin, such that services and goods exported from the Hebei region account for more than 60% of the region's carbon emissions and water use. Economic benefits are also exported. In the case of five key Hebei cities, only 38% of the region's gross domestic product is retained within the cities. This disparity has important implications for equality, prosperity, and sustainability and demonstrates the importance of considering supply chains from the city networks perspective.

disparity Jing-Jin-Ji resource network supply chain trade-off urban agglomeration urban sustainability urbanization

英语

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1.Water Security Research Centre,School of International Development,University of East Anglia,Norwich,NR4 7TJ,United Kingdom
2.School of Environmental Science and Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,518055,China
3.College of Management and Economics,Tianjin University,Tianjin,300072,China
4.Department of Mathematics,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,518055,China
5.Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen,University of Groningen,Groningen,9747 AG,Netherlands
6.School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics,Anhui University of Finance and Economics,Bengbu,233030,China
7.Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management,University College London,London,WC1H 0QB,United Kingdom
8.Department of Earth System Science,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling,Tsinghua University,Beijing,100084,China

Zheng，Heran,Zhang，Zongyong,Zhang，Zengkai,et al. Mapping Carbon and Water Networks in the North China Urban Agglomeration[J]. One Earth,2019,1(1):126-137.

Zheng，Heran.,Zhang，Zongyong.,Zhang，Zengkai.,Li，Xian.,Shan，Yuli.,...&Guan，Dabo.(2019).Mapping Carbon and Water Networks in the North China Urban Agglomeration.One Earth,1(1),126-137.

Zheng，Heran,et al."Mapping Carbon and Water Networks in the North China Urban Agglomeration".One Earth 1.1(2019):126-137.