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With the rapid development and expansion of the cities in China, the carrying capacity of resource and environment has become a huge concern for local governments. From the perspective of geological environment, geological disasters are the main restraining factor of the development in mountain cities. This study was conducted in Suide County of Shaanxi Province with a risk-based approach as followed: a hazard analysis on geological disasters based on a slope geological survey at a scale of 1:10,000; a consequence analysis based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial survey data; integrating the results of hazard analysis and consequence analysis, a risk zonation and analysis of geological disasters in urban areas were completed considering urban planning, land use planning and the safety of infrastructure and major engineering. Subsequently, taking the acceptable levels of human life and property risks incurred by landslides as the criteria of the evaluation of geological environment carrying capacity, a comprehensive assessment of current and future urban carrying capacity was conducted based on the results of the risk analyses. Accordingly, the prior development zone, the restricted development zone and the prohibited zone were delineated, with corresponding suggestions for future urban development. The technological and methodological system used in the study can be applied to geological environment carrying capacity evaluation of other important mountain cities, which can provide scientific basis for the optimization of land and space.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41641011) and the Special Funds of Geological Mineral Resources and Environment Investigation Project (Grant No.DDT20160087). We thank the comprehensive geological investigation team of Guanzhong Basin city cluster from Xi’an Geological Survey Center of China Geological Survey. We acknowledge the leasers and colleagues from the Development Research Center and the Strategy and Intelligence Research Office of China Geological Survey who helped the research, for the inseparable cooperation over the years. We appreciate the valuable suggestions by CHEN Ruishan from East China Normal University, and we are extremely grateful for the constructive comments from the editor and anonymous reviewers on earlier versions of the manuscript.
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Wang, Y., Zhang, Ms., Xue, Q. et al. Risk-based evaluation on geological environment carrying capacity of mountain city - A case study in Suide County, Shaanxi Province, China. J. Mt. Sci. 15, 2730–2740 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-017-4798-9
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