英文摘要 |
As one of the most significant consequences of human activities, urbanization has caused enormous negative environmental impacts, from the local through to the regional and even global levels.To date, rapid urbanization and construction have created numerous ecological and environmental problems.Regarding its various dynamic processes, complicated driving anisms and ecological impacts, urbanization has become one ofthe key issues related to global changes such as land use change and climate change.Located in the Pearl River Delta, Shenzhen stands on the frontline of the Reformation and Opening of Mainland China.During the past 30 years, particularly Since 1990, the landscape of Shenzhen has changed from a traditional agricultural landscape to a typical urban landscape.Consequently, Shenzhen has blossomed into the third largest city in Mainland China.However, with the continuous growth in urban population and industry varcus environmental problems have begun to emerge w h negative impacts on the ur an ecoss sent indus study, spatial pattern changes of urban landscapes and the potential ecological impacts are assessed.First, spatial pattern of urban landscape has been extracted based on LANDSAT TM images and analyzed quantitatively with using a spatial analysis package embedded in geographical information system(GIS)platform Furthermore spatial modeling s applied to examine the effects of vegetation dynamics and urban heat island related to urban landscape changes, owing to urbanization, landscape fragmentation and urban heat island effect have been assessed to examine ters nfluence on natural vegetation degradation.The results indicate that rapid urbanization is speeding up the spatial changes of landscape pattern and degrading ecological function and environmental quality in Shenzhen, “The negative influence of urbanization on vegetation varies with landscape type.Area of agriculture landscape tends to decrease significantly, while natural landscape only changes slightly, that contribute to maintain a relatively high level of ecological service.Moreover, urbanization also affects lan d surface temperature.The result shows a remarkable rising trend of urban heat island effect since 1990. Especially, the most obvious temperature rise appears in the newly-built Meanwhile, the temperature is relatively low in the inner cities, which have well-developed urban aforesting and greening scheme, with evenly distributed green patches and closely spaced hgh-rise buildings.To mitigate the impacts of urbanization on urban environment, in 2005 the Shenzhen government devised a plan to integrate resource conservation areas, forest parks, and urban green lands(total area about 974 km)to establish a limited development area.From a network perspective, it is suggested that ecological planning in Shenzhen should construct an ecological network by enhancing the link between urtann open space and natural landscape in the and restricting urban expansion to reduce the impacts on the conser anon areas. |