Evaluation Indexes and Spatial-Temporal Features towards Urban Resilience of Sichuan Province in China from 2003 to 2013
- 1 School of Business and Tourism, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- 2 School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
- 3 School of Public Affairs and Administration, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Abstract
New pattern urbanization, which is explored and developed in China for improving urban resilience and reducing urban vulnerability. Urban resilience is a comprehensive ability of a city for dealing with the uncertainty risk disasters through a combination of urban economy, urban engineering, urban society and urban ecology. When the city system and its subsystems have certain resilience in development, it will promote sustainable development. How to assess urban resilience? What is the spatial-temporal law on the development of urban resilience? These answers have an important practical significance for promoting the construction of the modern urbanization and sustainable development of cities and regions. Based on the above, this study constructed the measurement system on urban resilience, chose 21 cities of Sichuan province in China as a case, and analyzed the spatial-temporal law on t he development of urban resilience empirically. The conclusions are as f ollows: The level of urban resilience was on the rise, and the characteristics of spatial heterogeneity on urban resilience were presented, and the spatial agglomeration degree increased gradually. The resilience of urban economic system, urban engineering system, and urban ecological system revealed a cluster characteristic in Sichuan province, but urban social system was not obvious.
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