The Dynamic Coordinated Development of a Regional Environment-Tourism-Economy System: A Case Study from Western Hunan Province, China

Yaoqing Yuan, Maozhu Jin, Jinfei Ren, Mingming Hu and Peiyu Ren
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Yaoqing Yuan: Business School, Huaihua University, No. 612, Yingfeng Road, Huaihua 418008, China
Maozhu Jin: Business School, Sichuan University, No. 24 South Section 1, Yihuan Road, Chengdu 610065, China
Jinfei Ren: Business School, Sichuan University, No. 24 South Section 1, Yihuan Road, Chengdu 610065, China
Mingming Hu: Business School, Sichuan University, No. 24 South Section 1, Yihuan Road, Chengdu 610065, China
Peiyu Ren: Business School, Sichuan University, No. 24 South Section 1, Yihuan Road, Chengdu 610065, China

Sustainability, 2014, vol. 6, issue 8, 1-21

Abstract: Based on regional coordination theory and system theory, the authors constructed an evaluation index system for the coordinated development of a regional environment-tourism-economy system with a pressure-state-response (PSR) model. With a coordinated development model, it further empirically analyzed the coordinated development state of an environment-tourism-economy system in western Hunan from 2001 to 2012. The results showed that, although this environment-tourism-economy system failed to achieve a high benefit index, inter-subsystem coupling extent, and coordinated development index, the three indices presented an increasing overall trend. This outcome suggested that the sub-systems in this system were developing towards their optimal proportions: the development of these sub-systems (environmental, tourism, and economic) was unbalanced in western Hunan. The environment therein sees only slow development although provided with a favorable ecological foundation. Economic development, which has long been lagging, acted as the main factor restricting the coordinated development of a regional environment-tourism-economy system. To promote its coordinated development in western Hunan, the following recommendations were proposed: strengthen the prediction and warnings on the evolution of the whole system; optimize the industry’s structure; reinforce environmental management.

Keywords: environment-tourism-economy system; benefit index; coordinated development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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