Evaluation and regulation of resource-based city resilience: Evidence from Shanxi Province, China

• Published in: International journal of disaster risk reduction Vol. 81; p. 103256
• Main Authors: Yang, Man, Wang, Jinman, Jing, Zhaorui, Liu, Biao, Niu, Hebin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 15.10.2022
• Subjects: Driving force; Entropy weight method; Geographic detector; Policy recommendations; Resource-based city; Urban resilience; Driving force; Policy recommendations; Resource-based city; Entropy weight method; Urban resilience; Geographic detector
• ISSN: 2212-4209; 2212-4209
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103256

With the continuous progress of global urbanization, urban resilience has been of great concern due to the impact of many risks. The single industrial structure and environmental pressure of resource-based cities (RBCs) make it an imminent need to strengthen their resilience. However, RBCs are less discussed in current resilience studies. Thus, this study attempts to evaluate the resilience of 10 RBCs in Shanxi Province of China from 2005 to 2019 and also to detect the dominant influencing factors of urban resilience and their interactions. In doing so, several modeling tools including entropy weight method, multi-factor comprehensive evaluation method and Geographic detector are employed to measure and review the changes of urban resilience in Shanxi and also to detect the development potentials for resource-based city resilience. It is found that the urban resilience in Shanxi has been on the rise from below 0.3 in 2005 to above 0.35 in 2019, with an overall upward trend, and there are obvious regional differences. The results of the Geographic detector indicate that the determinant power of influencing factor increases significantly after the interaction. And the top three dominant interaction clusters are market capacity ∩ rationality of employment structure, facility completeness ∩ land production efficiency, and internal economic dynamism ∩ coordination of ecological development. It is recommended to accelerate industrial restructuring and high-quality urbanization, grasp infrastructure construction and ecological environmental protection, and coordinate in multiple dimensions in order to achieve a high degree of urban resilience. •A spatio-temporal resilience research with resource-based cities as the subject.•Multi-dimensional perspective on the interrelationship between urban elements.•Research on the dominant drivers and regulation of urban resilience.