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Research progress of eco city evaluation

Xuefeng Yang, Yi Zhou

Article ID: 1842
Vol 3, Issue 2, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/ec.v3i2.1842

Received: 10 June 2022; Accepted: 15 July 2022; Available online: 1 August 2022;
Issue release: 30 December 2022

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Abstract

Building an ecological city is the main way to implement the “five in one” overall layout and important content to promote the construction of ecological civilization. The establishment of an ecocity evaluation system is particularly necessary for the construction of ecocity. This paper comprehensively combs the research literature on ecocity evaluation, analyzes the relevant literature from three aspects: evaluation method, evaluation dimension, and evaluation index system, and puts forward suggestions on the existing ecocity evaluation methods.

Keywords

eco city; evaluation index system; comprehensive evaluation method

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