Spatiotemporal Variations of Landscape Ecological Risks in a Resource-Based City under Transformation

The development of traditional resource-based cities requires drastic changes owing to the exhaustion resources. During this transformation, ecological environment is threatened because resource exploitation, in addition risks caused by urban expansion. However, there currently a lack research on evolution dangers during transformational period. Therefore, conducting relevant studies essential establishing mechanism mitigate these dangers. present study analyzed Xuzhou, typical city China, as case study. main objective was consider dynamic land use and transformation city. land-use Xuzhou 2000, 2010, 2020 were analyzed, using Markov model landscape-pattern indices, allowing an risk-assessment be constructed. Additionally, spatial heterogeneity evaluated autocorrelation. results showed that expansion influenced significantly. Owing rapid expansion, area extremely high-risk regions increased significantly 2010. Furthermore, subsidence areas mining had profound impacts region’s ecology, early interventions for restoration are needed prevent further deterioration. Xuzhou’s overall reduced gradually, which conducive its transition into