As a significant and necessitous issue,mining cities,especially the resource-exhausted ci-ties have already been given intensive attention by academic and governmental departments. From the perspective of sustainable development of mining cities,the intrinsic and extrinsic reasons for problems of mining cities are explored in this paper.Then,the economic benefits of mining cities are ...

enhancing the sustainability of mining in South Africa. Initiatives introduced by the South African mining industry to improve safety in the country's mines, have resulted in a more than 50% reduction in fatalities. The mining industry has adopted a zero harm policy and …

Urban sustainability indices of major cities in China. The results of urban sustainability indices (USIs) are presented in Table 5; the three key components of the USI, economy, environment and social equity indices, of major cities in China from 2003 to 2006 are illustrated in Tables 6, 7 and 8.

To do this, 78 Chinese mining cities are used as an example. These cities are classified on a hierarchical level of the DSDMR in order to support decision-making of sustainable development. Six principal factors controlling the DSDMR are recognized using factor analysis.

2021 data for the global distribution of mining power is not yet available, but past estimates have shown that 65% to 75% of the world's bitcoin mining happened in China – mostly in four Chinese ...

About 1 million square miles (2.6 million sq km) of China is now under desertification — that's about one-quarter of the country's total land surface, spread across 18 provinces, according to ...

Degree of sustainable development of mineral resources (DSDMR) is the basis and security of mining cities' sustainable development. Thus, how to promote the DSDMR of mining cities has been widespread concerned by people. This paper tries to search for the systematic evolution characteristics and rules of DSDMR by highlighting the science and technology function of intelligence system.

In a bid to tackle these challenges, China's government has declared a "war on pollution" and introduced a number of green initiatives. Here are the most important ones: Less coal, cleaner air. China has taken steps to dismantle coal-fired power plants, reduce overall emission levels and cut particulate-matter emission rates.

Between 1978 and 2015, China invested a total of $378.5 billion in 16 major sustainability programmes, most of it in the latter 20 years. The investment involved more than 500 million people and far exceeds any other national sustainability programme.

CHINA ' S CITIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. 297 . Like the United States, nearly all of China's energy is produced by fossil fuels. 11. China is the world's second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels, after the United States. Those emissions are expected to grow to nearly equal the entire industrialized world ...

The Hidden Environmental Toll of Mining the World's Sand. By far the largest mining endeavor globally is digging up sand, mainly for the concrete that goes into buildings. But this little-noticed and largely unregulated activity has serious costs — damaging rivers, wreaking havoc on coastal ecosystems, and even wiping away entire islands.

Yu et al. measured the sustainability of China's major mining cities and contrasted them with other types of cities [22]. Wang et al. and Dong et al. researched the sustainable development of ...

C)China is the world's largest producer of many pollutants, including carbon dioxide. One of the earliest models for conservation in the United States was based on Utilitarian Conservation, for which Nature was conserved not to protect biodiversity, but to provide jobs and resources.

3 School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, PR China. Electronic address: [email protected]. 4 Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States. Electronic address: [email protected]. PMID: …

Today, as the largest importer and consumer of soybeans globally, nearly 85% of China's soybean consumption is hidden in animal feed, mainly imported from Brazil, the US and Argentina. Nevertheless, China is still the fourth-largest producer globally, providing soybeans free of GM (genetic modification) for direct human consumption.

Its economic growth in the past three decades has been the fastest among major nations, which is the main factor in why China has extensive air pollution. Of the twenty cities with the worst air pollution worldwide, 16 are located in China, including Beijing. 1,2,3 Due to this extensive air pollution, China's Environmental Sustainability ...

China is the world's top emitter, producing more than a quarter of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change.

China is now Africa's biggest trade partner, with Sino-African trade topping $200 billion per year.According to McKinsey, over 10,000 Chinese …

Top 10 most sustainable cities in China. Shenzhen is the most sustainable city in the country, thanks to its excellent performance in the economic, social and …

China could end up exceeding its emissions reduction targets as a result of carbon-intensive bitcoin mining, according to a study published this …

The indicator system of the DSDMR for evaluating the sustainability for a mining city is devised on account of practice of China's mining cities (see Table 1). It consists of 24 indicators, including five aspects of mineral resources, economy, society, environment, and intelligence.

(2010). A Research on Problems for Sustainable Development of Mining Cities in China. Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 29-37.

China's rapid pace of urbanization and economic development over the past three decades has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and catapulted the nation into the ranks of the world's largest economies. Yet, rising demand for energy, increasing emissions

Downloadable (with restrictions)! The aim of this paper is to identify principal factors controlling the Degree of Sustainable Development of Mineral Resources (DSDMR) of mining cities and then to measure their DSDMR and reveal their developing trends. To do this, 78 Chinese mining cities are used as an example. These cities are classified on a hierarchical level of the DSDMR in order to ...

The floods drenching central China and submerging swathes of a major economic and transport hub are threatening supply chains for goods ranging …

While most cryptocurrency mining takes place in China, major operations have opened up in a number of North American cities, where some officials are alarmed by the industry's emissions.

China's economic recovery can serve as a positive indication of the market's robust, long-term potential. This report is based on extensive qualitative and quantitative research among gemstone owners across China's different regions, city tiers and levels of affluence, and is the first of its kind. The result

cent of major cities had groundwater categorized as bad to very bad, and more than a quarter of China's key rivers were deemed unfit for human contact. 8. Lack of waste removal and proper processing, combined with negligent farming practices, overgrazing, and the effects of climate change have turned much of China's arable land into desert. 9

sustainable limit2. urbanisation In 1950, New York was the only city in the world with a population of more than 10 million. The number of cities with more than 10 million people increased to 5 in 1975 and 17 in 2001, and is expected to increase to 21 cities in 2015. The world's urban population reached 2.9

Cities based on mining are distinctive from other cities in China. Their heavy dependence on minerals, a relatively undiversified industrial structure, seriously damaged ecological environment and ...

DOI: 10.1016/J.RESOURPOL.2020.101867 Corpus ID: 224889175. Sustainable transition of mining cities in China: Literature review and policy analysis @article{Jiao2020SustainableTO, title={Sustainable transition of mining cities in China: Literature review and policy analysis}, author={Wenting Jiao and Xiaosen Zhang and Changhong Li and Jiaqi Guo}, journal={Resources …

The results show that the comprehensive development indices of the tourism industry subsystem and urbanization subsystem of China's major tourist cities have steadily increased. The comprehensive development indices of large-sized and medium-sized cities in the east are relatively high.