As an environmental friendly measure for surface runoff reduction, low impact development (LID) has been applied successfully in urban areas. However, due to high price of land and additional expense for LID construction in highly urbanized areas, the developers of real estate would not like to proceed LID exploitation. Floor area ratio (FAR) refers to “the ratio of a building’s total floor area to the size of the piece of land upon which it is built.” Increasing FAR indicates that the developers can construct higher buildings and earn more money. By means of awarding FAR, the developers may be willing to practice LID construction. In this study, a new residential district is selected as a case study to analyze the tradeoff between the runoff reduction goal achieving by LID practices and the incentive of awarding FAR to promote LID construction. The System for Urban Stormwater Treatment and Analysis IntegratioN (SUSTAIN) model is applied to simulate the runoff reduction under various LID designs and then derive the Pareto-optimal solutions to achieve urban runoff reduction goals based on cost efficiency. The results indicates that the maximum surface runoff reduction is 20.5%. Under the extremity scenarios, the government has options to award FAR of 0.028, 0.038 and 0.047 and the net benefits developers gain are 0 CNY, one million CNYand two million CNY, respectively. The results provide a LID construction guideline related to awarding FAR, which supports incentive policy making for promoting LID practices in the highly urbanized areas.
Even though “sustainable development” seems to have emerged as the development paradigm of the 1990s, a great deal of vagueness
still surrounds the meaning, definition, and theoretical underpinnings of the concept. There is also a general lack of emphasis
on the spatial dimension of sustainable development when developing relevant conceptual or environmental accounting frameworks.
In clarifying the concept, this article proposes a definition that explicitly incorporates the temporal as well as the spatial
dimension of sustainability. It also develops a logically consistent conceptual framework for the analysis and evaluation
of sustainable development, following a spatial systems approach. Five interconnected aspatial subsystems or subsets of a
spatial system are identified and their respective operational dimensions discussed. A proposed composite index calleddegree of stainable development (DSD) and its five component indicators are also outlined. The difficulties involved in operationalizing the DSD measure
and the conceptual framework are noted, and the various tasks that need to be undertaken in this regard are specified. It
is concluded that future research utilizing the proposed conceptual framework should not only foster the development of appropriate
methodologies for the comparative evaluation of sustainable development at global, national, or regional scales, but also
offer insights to appropriate decision makers at various levels regarding available options and alternative actions for the
healthy development of their respective societies. 相似文献
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