Sustainable coastal city development

本项目旨在模拟低洼沿海城市在人口快速增长、气候变化和人类活动密集的情况下的可持续发展选择。该项目将以澳大利亚布里斯班和中国宁波为案例，通过实证检验和理解城市如何在个体尺度和跨司法管辖的背景下，作为人类与生活环境相互作用的复杂系统而发展。该项目旨在为沿海城市的发展提供明确的空间理解和基于科学的决策工具，以改善政策制定。

This project aims to model sustainable development options of low-lying coastal cities under rapid population growth, climate change and intensive human activity. Using Brisbane (Australia) and Ningbo (China) as case studies, the project will empirically test and understand how cities grow as complex systems built out of the interactions between humans and their living environment at the individual scale and in a cross-jurisdictional context. The project expects to offer a spatially explicit understanding of the development of coastal cities and science-based decision tools to improve policy-making.