Open AccessTheoretical Research of the Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Epoch of Urbanization
Author(s) -
LI Chang-liang,
Ling Lian
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of financial research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-4031
pISSN - 1923-4023
DOI - 10.5430/ijfr.v3n1p105
Subject(s) - carrying capacity , urbanization , context (archaeology) , process (computing) , resource (disambiguation) , sustainable development , urban climate , epoch (astronomy) , environmental resource management , environmental planning , geography , economic geography , environmental economics , natural resource economics , environmental science , computer science , economics , ecology , economic growth , biology , computer network , stars , archaeology , computer vision , operating system
Conventional wisdom suggests that ecological factors are prominent constraints of cities in the urbanization process. By contrast, this article provides a fresh conception of the urban comprehensive carrying capacity in the context of ecosystem, economy and social dimensions. Based on in-depth analysis, the author makes out a list of informative area-based indicators in three differentiated layers and the findings are that the urban comprehensive carrying capacity is an entanglement of three subsystems of resource carrying capacity, economic carrying capacity and social carrying capacity, with all concepts fundamental to sustainable urbanization process