Spatial-Temporal Analysis of the Economic and Environmental Coordination Development Degree in Liaoning Province

Abstract

This study selects 20 indices of economic and environmental conditions over 15 years (1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010) for 14 cities in Liaoning province, China. We calculate the economic score F and environmental score G of each city by processing 4200 data points through SPSS 16.0 and establish synthesis functions between the economy and the environment. For the time dimension, we study the temporal evolution of the economic and environmental coordination development degree ( EECD ). Based on Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) techniques and using GeoDa, we calculate Moran's index of local spatial autocorrelation and explore the spatial distribution character of EECD in Liaoning province through a LISA cluster map. As we found in the temporal dimension, the results show that EECD of the 14 cities has been rising for 15 years and that EECD increases year by year, which indicates that the economic and environmental coordination development condition has been improving from disorder to highly coordinated. A smaller gap between economic strength and environmental carrying capacity in Liaoning province exists, which means that economic development and environmental protection remain synchronized. In the spatial dimension, the highly coordinated cities have changed from a scattering to a concentration in the middle-south region of Liaoning province. Poorly coordinated cities are scattered in the northwestern region of Liaoning province.

Coordinated Development Analysis of the “Resources-Environment-Ecology-Economy-Society” Complex System in China

“…The coordination degree evaluation model can be currently divided into three categories: distance type, change type and integrated type (Table 1). Although some achievements [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] have been made in studying the coordination degree of the complex systems, a few issues still need to be clarified: Firstly, many terms have emerged, for example resource environment, environmental resources, ecological environment and social The coordination of a complex system is an important characteristic that reflects the relationships between the various subsystems, and among the internal indexes of these subsystems. The coordination degree of a complex system is a quantitative index that measures the harmony and consistency of the system, or among the elements of the system, during its development.…”

“…Moreover, there are no corresponding terms in any international environment, ecology, economic or sociology dictionaries [21]. Secondly, current investigations [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] largely focus on the coordination of binary or ternary component complex systems, and they rarely focus on the comprehensive analysis and research of REEES, which are closely related to sustainable development. Thirdly, the comprehensive coordination analysis and measurement of a complex system only considers either the internal coordination of the inner-subsystems or the coordination among them.…”

Developing a methodological framework for capturing regional disparities in social development

“…Furthermore, current research advanced the multivariate inequality research studies (Odoi et al, 2005;Quadrado et al, 2001;Soares et al, 2003;H. Wang et al, 2013;Q.…”

Principal Component Analysis: A Natural Approach to Data Exploration

“…Results indicate very distinct characteristics between the population living in rural area and those in the urban region. By using a similar approach, in [145], the evolution of economic characteristics of the Liaoning province are studied throughout time. A coordination development index was devised by using PCA.…”