METHODOLOGY STUDY ON MONITORING REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
研究了区域可持续性监测的方法论，从经济学、生态学、社会政治学和综合评估四个角度提出方法，并在中国六个城市进行案例验证，发现自然资源消耗、环境污染成本和人均GDP是关键因素。
Basing on the review and analysis of the study progress in regional sustainability monitoring,research team made case study in Ningbo, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Sanming and Yantai. This paper discusses the methodology on regional sustainability measurement from four methods of economics, ecology, social-politics and comprehensive assessment, and systematically proposes the essential processes of methods of comprehensive assessment as follow: indicator screening, estimation of indicators and data, building of indicators framework, methods of data processing and the compilation and issuance of the final report. Then it introduces the development of database and professional software especially for urban sustainability assessment in our study. From our new multidisciplinary methodology, the integrated analysis was carried out according to the results in case cities, and found some key factors closely related to China regional sustainability, such as depletion of natural resources, cost of environmental pollution and GDP per capita, and so on. The conclusions show that it is important and necessary to quantify the primary factors above of regional sustainability and synthetically monitor it from multidisciplinary methodology.