Vulnerability mechanism and evaluation of human-land system of mining cities in China

Chinese mining cities have come across a lot of economic problems because of resource exhaustion in recent years, this change has also brought about a series of social problems and environmental problems. This paper reviews the development process of mining cities of china, analyses the vulnerability characteristics of human-land system of mining cities, and put forward vulnerability mechanism of human-land system of mining cities, which include the following: the fundamental cause of vulnerability of human-land system of mining cities, the process of vulnerability of three subsystems, which contain economic system, social system and natural system. In addition, we illustrate an example of evaluation.