Journal of Geographical Sciences, Volume. 30, Issue 2, 333(2020)

Dynamic simulation of urbanization and eco-environment coupling: Current knowledge and future prospects

Xuegang CUI1...2, Chuanglin FANG1,2,*, Haimeng LIU1,2, Xiaofei LIU1,2 and Yonghong LI3 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
  • 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3. Institute of Water Ecology, Beijing Orient Landscape & Environment Co., Ltd., Beijing 100015, China;
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      Comparison of techniques for dynamic simulation of urbanization and eco-environment coupling.

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      Table 1.

      Comparison of techniques for dynamic simulation of urbanization and eco-environment coupling.

      NameDisciplineAdvantagesDisadvantagesApplication
      System dynamicsSystems science and computer simulationModeling process is simple and can be combined with an index system to identify system boundary and related variablesDifficult to reflect the characteristics of adaptive and spatial change in the system, and the feedbacks are in part regression relationshipsUrban system change, urban sustainable development and urbanization and eco-environment element coupling
      Artificial neural networkArtificial intelligenceA typical human brain model with three advantages: self-learning, associative storage and high-speed optimizationDefective in learning, causal explanation and other aspects, especially in dealing with system uncertaintyUrban land expansion, environmental change, and resources demand
      Bayesian networksArtificial intelligence, probability theory, statistics and graph theoryGood at causal and diagnostic reasoning, as empirical data can be incompleteDifficult to deal with the large number of nodes and the learning ability is less than for ANNIdentification of urban ecological vulnerability and demand for resources
      CLUE-sLUCC, systems science and computer simulationGood at dealing with different spatial scales based on empirical dataFocus on local equilibrium analysisLand use allocation on multiple spatial scales
      Cellular automataLUCC, systems science and computer simulationSimplifies complex problems by bottom-up modeling and can simulate complex discrete systemsDifficult to solve the problem of spatial heterogeneity and lacks explanation of the mechanismUrban sprawl and land use change
      Multi-agent systemArtificial intelligence and complexity scienceCompensates for the neglect of policy factors and explains land use change processesResearch space is abstracted as homogeneous and model validation is difficultPolicy-driven urban sprawl and land use change
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    Xuegang CUI, Chuanglin FANG, Haimeng LIU, Xiaofei LIU, Yonghong LI. Dynamic simulation of urbanization and eco-environment coupling: Current knowledge and future prospects[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2020, 30(2): 333

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    Paper Information

    Received: Aug. 29, 2019

    Accepted: Oct. 18, 2019

    Published Online: Sep. 29, 2020

    The Author Email: FANG Chuanglin (fangcl@igsnrr.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11442-020-1731-x

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