Search

Transforming resource-based cities into sustainable economic development is a great challenge for policy-makers in many countries. However, the economic-centered evaluation system tends to breed the undesirable view of "GDP only" or "brown growth" in the previous case studies which is inconsistent with the long-run and sustainable development of resource-based cities. To fill in this research gap, this paper takes Jilin province in northeast China as a case study to explore urban development problems faced by major resource-based cities during resource depletion. This research constructs a stratified indicator system and conducts an in-depth analysis of the features and spatial effects of urban decline. For this analysis, this paper jointly uses the methods of entropy-weighted TOPSIS, analytic hierarchical process (AHP), and spatial effect model based on a database from 2000 to 2019. The findings of this study show that the current transformation of resource-based cities in Jilin province is generally ineffective and difficult to maintain long-run and sustainable development due to its historical reasons and industrial development background. According to the results, the resource-based cities in Jilin province show an unstable development because of factors such as barriers to the physical renewal of resources, rigid industrial structure, insufficient backup resources, and institutional and policy constraints. Also, the transformation of these cities into sustainable economic development is still facing demographic, social, and ecological difficulties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As an important ecosystem service, water supply is closely related to human well-being. Maintaining the balance of water supply and demand is essential in the sustainable development of a regional economy and society. Taking western Jilin, where the difference between water supply and demand is increasingly prominent, as the research object, from the perspective of land consolidation and precipitation changes, this paper analyzes the temporal and spatial changes of water resources supply and demand at the regional and county scales in western Jilin from 2000 to 2018 by the InVEST model and the water resource demand model. The results show that water production in western Jilin did not change significantly before and after land consolidation. The change in planting structure made water demand increase from 3.03 billion m3 to 4.96 billion m3, which reversed the relationship between supply and demand. The impact of precipitation changes on water production is extremely significant. The annual production of water in wet years is 8.05 billion m3, and the annual water production in dry years is 1.08 billion m3. The amount of precipitation can directly change the relationship between the supply and demand of local water resources. The evolution of the water resources supply and demand pattern in western Jilin is the result of the combined effect of land consolidation and precipitation changes. Precipitation mainly affects supply, while land consolidation mainly affects demand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid development of farmers' cooperatives in rural China cannot be separated from government support. To ensure the growth of farmers' cooperatives, the Chinese government uses it as a key performance indicator for its local institutions. Superficially, rural China's cooperative population and membership size witnessed rapid growth during the first decade after the Farmers' Specialized Cooperatives Law was enacted in 2007; however, such government intervention also leads to non‐standard phenomena due to market distortion. Using nationally representative survey data from 504 cooperatives in Jiangsu, Jilin, and Sichuan provinces, this paper provides a reliable estimate of the "shell cooperative" rate around 2014. The empirical study sheds further light on the role of government during the period of rapid but chaotic growth by a subset containing 241 marketing cooperatives. Results show that direct administrative intervention leads to the emergence of many shell cooperatives (approximately 37%). Further study also confirms that task‐oriented policy support is only positively associated with the nominal coverage ratio but has no significant relationship with cooperatives' function. This study provides new insights into the formation of shell cooperatives and suggests that direct administrative intervention may not be a good strategy for promoting the sustainable development of farmers' cooperatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the requirement of energy sustainable development strategy in Jilin province, this paper evaluates the performance of wind power coupling compressed air energy storage projects for a wind farm in Jilin from the perspective of sustainability. Firstly, a sustainable criteria system is established from economic, social and ecological dimensions, and 10 secondary criteria are given. Secondly, to fully express the hesitancy and fuzziness of experts, linguistic fuzzy hesitant sets (LFHSs) are used to describe the subjective evaluation information. And then, the cloud model is developed to deal with the randomness and fuzziness of LFHS. Thirdly, a multi criteria decision-making model based on improved Choquet fuzzy integral and deviation degree is proposed for a multi criteria evaluation problem with initial data in the form of crisp values, interval numbers and linguistic fuzzy hesitant sets. The deviation degree can deal with multi-source heterogeneous data and Choquet fuzzy integral improved with Mobius transformation can eliminate the overlap information between criteria. Finally, the case study in Jilin is given to illustrate the effective of the proposed evaluation criteria and technique. From the results, the project 4: wind power coupling compressed air energy storage system with meshing switch is the most suitable alternative for the wand farm, followed by the project of wind power coupling compressed air energy storage system with variable configuration. Moreover, the sensitivity analysis reveals that the project 4 always occupies its top ranking when its weight is floating within a certain range. At last, some policy implications to promote wind power industry are given for the government. • The sustainability evaluation criteria system for wind power project is presented. • A MCDM method based on Choquet fuzzy integral and Mobius transformation is proposed. • Linguistic fuzzy hesitant sets are used to present subjective evaluation information. • The proposed model can deal with multi-source heterogeneous data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Renewable energy is the inevitable choice for the sustainable development of society and economy. How to select the most appropriate renewable energy for a region is a complex multi-criterion decision making (MCDM) problem. Taking Jilin Province as an example, this paper proposes a new MCDM method. In order to better express the hesitancy, inconsistency and uncertainty of decision makers’ preferences, linguistic hesitant fuzzy set (LHFS) is proposed. On the basis of cloud model, the rule of transforming LHFS to quantitative values is defined. Subsequently, the distance measure and support measure are established. In consideration of the interdependency of criteria, an LHFS aggregation operator based on improved Choquet integral is proposed. Finally, the ranking result of the aggregated LHFS corresponding to each renewable energy alternative is obtained according to the expectation values. The result shows that the preferred renewable energy for Jilin is biomass energy, followed by wind energy, hydro energy and solar energy. The validation analysis and comparison analysis are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]