Research on evaluation of sustainable land use of resource-based city based on circular economy- A case study of shuozhou city

Abstract

Circular economy could meet the requirement of transformation of resource-based city. According to the principles of circular economy, "reduce, reuse, recycle", and the characteristics of land use of Shuozhou city in Shanxi Province, an evaluation system is established to assess the condition of sustainable land use between 2005 and 2010. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is used to determine indexes' weights after qualitative and quantitative analysis. Then obstacle analysis of factors is carried out. It displays the integrative condition of sustainable land use in Shuozhou city improved on the whole. The main obstacles of sustainable land use are reduce and reuse. According to the results above, some suggestions on land resource management are put forward. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.