Promoting Sustainable Development in Urban-Rural Areas: A New Approach for Evaluating the Policies of Characteristic Towns in China

被引:4
作者
Zhang, Lin [1 ]
Sun, Yufei [1 ]
Li, Chunlin [2 ]
Li, Bingbing [1 ]
机构
[1] Shandong Jianzhu Univ, Sch Management Engn, Jinan 250101, Peoples R China
[2] Zhejiang Ocean Univ, Sch Econ & Management, Zhoushan 316022, Peoples R China
关键词
characteristic town; urban-rural development; multiple streams theory; PMC-Index model; text mining; policy evaluation; URBANIZATION; EVOLUTION; GROWTH; CITIES; MODEL;
D O I
10.3390/buildings14041085
中图分类号
TU [建筑科学];
学科分类号
0813 ;
摘要
The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by all United Nations Member States, emphasize sustainable cities and communities, aiming to strengthen development planning and foster positive links between urban and rural areas by 2030. As the newly leading platform for urbanization development, characteristic towns ('Tese Xiaozhen' in Chinese) contribute to the target of sustainable urbanisation, wherein town policies are especially important for leading the sound development of characteristic towns. However, the effect of these characteristic towns policies remains uncertain. Additionally, most related studies have utilized qualitative methodologies in policy evaluation, which may be inadequate to guide actual practice. Thus, in order to accurately acknowledge the effect of characteristic towns policies, a policy evaluation framework is established in this paper, utilising the multiple streams theory, text mining and the Policy Modelling Consistency Index model (PMC-Index model). Then, taking 225 policy documents promulgated in China from 2015 to 2022 as the research objects, policy evaluation indicators were selected by combining the multiple streams theory to improve the PMC-Index model and a text mining method. Thereafter, an empirical analysis was conducted to evaluate the consistency of 10 characteristic towns policies chosen. The results indicate that the mean value of the PMC indexes of the 10 examined policies is 7.13 in the total of 9 points, which means that the general performance of the characteristic town policies is satisfactory, yet the low scores in terms of effectiveness, content, and guarantee. In the end, some recommendations and suggestions are proposed for clarifying administrative attributes, optimizing the integration of urban and rural resources, and adjusting the policy hierarchy to a bottom-up approach. This study not only provides a policy evaluation framework to comprehensively understand the consistency of global urbanization policies but also offers a beneficial reference for promote urban-rural sustainable development.
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