Urban Sustainable Development In The Economics Of The Geological Environment Analysis - For Example, The Geological Environment In Shanghai City

Urban geological environment is one of the most important factors for urbansustainable development. With the progress of urbanization and more fullunderstanding of the effects of urban activities on urban geological environment andresources, how to reach the target in which the urban development and urbanenvironment can be harmonized becomes a major issue for urban authorities. Chinanow has entered a stage of fast economic growth and emerging urbanization. But atthe same time, people also noted a series of urbanization-related geologicalenvironment issues. In some of metropolis and medium-sized cities, geologicalenvironment has become worsen and worsen and human activity-based geologicaldisasters take lion's share of its kind in geological disasters. In some region, urbangeological disasters have become the critical constraint to urban development. This study aims to decrease and minimize the negative effects of human activities on urbangeological environment by harmonizing urban development and its geological environment, basedon the understanding of the relationship between urban development and urban geologicalenvironment and to build up the idea of sustainable development. By combining theoretical study with best practices, general analysis with casestudies and by applying the theories of environmental economics to understanding ofurban geological environment accompanied with the urbanization, this work studiedthe mutual reliance and effects between urban development and its geologicalenvironment. Issues to be focused on include: firstly, urban development and itsmodel selection. The author concluded that urbanization is the inevitable prerequisiteof modernization and geological environment should be put into full consideration inthe progress of urbanization. Three possible models for urbanization are also putforward; secondly, urban geological environment can be characterized as public goods.This work applies the principles of public goods and externality to analyzing theproperties of urban geological environment and resources as public goods; thirdly,issues about urban geological environment in general in urbanization and themeasures to eliminate their negative influences from these issues. The authorinvestigates the possibility by publicity-oriented geological activities in producing thepublic goods with geological characteristics and designed the operating mechanism ofthis system; finally, taking Shanghai as example for deeply understanding of urban 2geological environment. This work concentrates on the two very typical issues closelyrelated to Shanghai, that is, land subsidence and utilization of water resources,especially to underground water. Some important ideas have been formed on thetaxation of land subsidence, institutional innovation in management of waterresources. Author expects the conclusions included in this dissertation can be taken asreferences by Shanghai authorities and other urban authorities in considering theurban sustainable development. This paper is divided into nine chapters.