Table 1 Indicators of LCC in previous research.

From: Effects of trial urban growth boundary delineation on land carrying capacity in China

References

Domains

Indicators

Qian et al. (2015)

Land social-developmental carrying capacity

Population density, Employment rate, Engel coefficient, Residential land use rate, Year-end road area, Per capita arable land, Urbanization rate

Land ecological-environmental carrying capacity

Green coverage, Comprehensive utilization of industrial solid wastes, Urban industrial wastewater discharge compliance rate, Environmental investment index, Centralized sewage treatment rate, Hazard-free treatment rate of household garbage

Land economic-productive carrying capacity

GDP, Industrial output, Proportion of tertiary industry, Total retail sales of social consumer goods, Intermediate consumption in of primary industry, Energy consumption per unit industrial added value, Effective irrigation area of arable land ratio

Tong et al. (2018)‘

Water and land resource

Ratio of land use, per capita arable land, Water resources per hectare, water resources per capita

Ecological environment

Vegetation coverage, Ratio of saline-alkali land in land resource, Sewage treatment rate, Hazard rate

Society

Population density, Ratio of non-agricultural population, Employment rate, Ratio of science and technology input in GDP

Economy and technology

Labor intensity, Cash intensity, Average annual growth rate of GDP, Economic density

Luo et al. (2020)

Ecological system

Urban green space per capita, SO2 emission intensity, PM10 emission intensity, COD environmental capacity,

Wastewater loading per unit land, Solid waste per unit area, Forest coverage, The proportion of soil erosion area per land area ……

Social system

Population density, Living space per rural resident, Urbanization rate, The distance from primary traffic road, Electricity consumption, Transportation accessibility, Industrial employees, Electricity consumption……

Economic system

GDP, GDP per unit area of land, GDP per unit area investment in fixed assets, Infrastructure investment per unit area, Total retail sales of consumer goods, Value-added of per unit industrial land……

Cheng et al. (2017)

Resource subsystem

Coordination degree of water and soil, Cultivation ratio, Rate of land for construction

Social subsystem

Urban green space per capita, Transportation land per capita, Arable land per capita, Urbanization rate, Commodity grain per capita, Effective irrigation rate

Economic subsystem

Grain yield, Degree of mechanization per unit of arable land, Economic density, Net income per capita

Ecological subsystem

Solid waste per unit area, Fertilizer loading per unit of arable land, Wastewater loading per unit land, Environmental protection investment rate

Wang et al. (2023)

Ecosystem carrying capacity

Grass yield per unit area, Proportion of grassland area, Grassland coverage, Per capita arable land area, Per capita grain possession, Proportion of forest area, Proportion of wetland area

Socio-economic carrying capacity

Added value of non-primary industry, per unit of construction land, Proportion of construction land, Per capita GDP, Population density