Evaluation Methods of Water Environment Safety and Their Application to the Three Northeast Provinces of China

Yuangang Li, Maohua Sun, Guanghui Yuan and Yujing Liu
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Yuangang Li: Business School, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian 116044, China
Maohua Sun: School of Foreign Language, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian 116028, China
Guanghui Yuan: Fintech Research Institute & School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
Yujing Liu: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 18, 1-16

Abstract: Focusing on the topic of water environment safety of China, this paper has selected the three northeast provinces of China as the research object due to their representativeness in economic development and resource security. By using the Entropy Weight Method, the Grey Correlation Analysis Method, and the Principal Component Analysis Method, this paper has first constructed a water environment safety evaluation system with 17 indicators from the economic, environmental, and ecological aspects. Furthermore, this paper has screened the initially selected indicators by the Principal Component Analysis Method and finally determined 11 indicators as the evaluation indicators. After indicator screening, this paper has adopted the improved Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method to evaluate the water environment safety of the three northeast provinces of China and obtained the change in water environment safety of different provinces from 2009 to 2017. The results show that the overall water environment safety of the region had improved first but worsened afterward, and that in terms of water safety level, Jilin Province ranked first, followed by Heilongjiang Province and Liaoning Province. The three factors that have the greatest impact on the water environment safety of the three provinces are: Liaoning—Chemical Oxygen Demand (score: 17.10), Per Capita Disposable Income (score: 13.50), and Secondary Industry Output (score: 11.50); Heilongjiang—Chemical Oxygen Demand (score: 18.64), Per Capita Water Resources (score: 12.75), and Concentration of Inhalable Particles (score: 10.89); Jilin—Per Capita Water Resources (score: 15.75), Chemical Oxygen Demand (score: 14.87), and Service Industry Output (score: 11.55). Based on analysis of the evaluation results, this paper has proposed corresponding policy recommendations to improve the water environment safety and promote sustainable development in the northeast provinces of China.

Keywords: water environment safety; the three northeast provinces of China; principal component analysis; fuzzy comprehensive evaluation; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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