Assessment of the Sustainable Development Capacity with the Entropy Weight Coefficient Method

Qingsong Wang, Xueliang Yuan, Jian Zhang, Yun Gao, Jinglan Hong, Jian Zuo and Wei Liu
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Qingsong Wang: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Shandong University, 17923 Jingshi Road, Jinan 250061, China
Xueliang Yuan: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Shandong University, 17923 Jingshi Road, Jinan 250061, China
Jian Zhang: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Road, Jinan 250100, China
Yun Gao: Shandong Provincial Bureau of Statistics, 158 Jingsi Road, Jinan 250001, China
Jinglan Hong: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Road, Jinan 250100, China
Jian Zuo: School of Architecture & Built Environment, Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
Wei Liu: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Shandong University, 17923 Jingshi Road, Jinan 250061, China

Sustainability, 2015, vol. 7, issue 10, 1-22

Abstract: Sustainable development is widely accepted in the world. How to reflect the sustainable development capacity of a region is an important issue for enacting policies and plans. An index system for capacity assessment is established by employing the Entropy Weight Coefficient method. The results indicate that the sustainable development capacity of Shandong Province is improving in terms of its economy subsystem, resource subsystem, and society subsystem whilst degrading in its environment subsystem. Shandong Province has shown the general trend towards sustainable development. However, the sustainable development capacity can be constrained by the resources such as energy, land, water, as well as environmental protection. These issues are induced by the economy development model, the security of energy supply, the level of new energy development, the end-of-pipe control of pollution, and the level of science and technology commercialization. Efforts are required to accelerate the development of the tertiary industry, the commercialization of high technology, the development of new energy and renewable energy, and the structure optimization of energy mix. Long-term measures need to be established for the ecosystem and environment protection.

Keywords: sustainable development capacity; environmental system; economy system; society system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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