TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of Compact and Decentralized Urban Development Pathways for Flood Mitigation in Urbanizing Deltas
T2 - Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta as a Case Study
AU - Lin, Weibin
AU - Sun, Yimin
AU - Nijhuis, Steffen
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Floods are common and inevitable natural disasters. Achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11.5 is a critical challenge for coastal cities, especially those in deltaic lowlands such as in the case of Guangzhou, China. Regarding the spatial planning and design of such urban regions, it is crucial to study the impacts of flooding in compact or decentralized spatial development pathways. This reinforces the understanding of the relationship between strategic decisions for spatial planning and flood mitigation. However, the lack of a computer model to assess spatial evolution paths is a significant limitation. The non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) explores the possibility of a compact built-up land layout in 2030. The results showed that, concerning the 2030 decentralized scenario, the 2030 compact scenario presents a large increase in the integrated fitness function value from 0.618 to 0.771 (the increase is equivalent to 0.153 or about 24.75%). In addition, different development scenarios were constructed by setting different target weights. Compared to the decentralized scenario results, the fitness function values of the optimization results of each scenario showed better results at different levels. They could also serve as a reference for other similar coastal areas to achieve SDG 11.5 by 2030.
AB - Floods are common and inevitable natural disasters. Achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11.5 is a critical challenge for coastal cities, especially those in deltaic lowlands such as in the case of Guangzhou, China. Regarding the spatial planning and design of such urban regions, it is crucial to study the impacts of flooding in compact or decentralized spatial development pathways. This reinforces the understanding of the relationship between strategic decisions for spatial planning and flood mitigation. However, the lack of a computer model to assess spatial evolution paths is a significant limitation. The non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) explores the possibility of a compact built-up land layout in 2030. The results showed that, concerning the 2030 decentralized scenario, the 2030 compact scenario presents a large increase in the integrated fitness function value from 0.618 to 0.771 (the increase is equivalent to 0.153 or about 24.75%). In addition, different development scenarios were constructed by setting different target weights. Compared to the decentralized scenario results, the fitness function values of the optimization results of each scenario showed better results at different levels. They could also serve as a reference for other similar coastal areas to achieve SDG 11.5 by 2030.
KW - spatial evolution path
KW - Guangzhou estuary area
KW - multi-objective optimization
KW - flood disaster
KW - SDG 11.5
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85189157530&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/land13030351
DO - 10.3390/land13030351
M3 - Article
SN - 2073-445X
VL - 13
JO - Land
JF - Land
IS - 3
M1 - 351
ER -