Agro-ecological sustainability evaluation in China

Xiangsheng Dou ()
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Xiangsheng Dou: Southwest Jiaotong University

Journal of Bioeconomics, 2022, vol. 24, issue 3, No 3, 223-239

Abstract: Abstract China’s agricultural ecological environment is facing the risks of worsening with the development of industrialization and urbanization. How to evaluate agro-ecological risk has become an important theoretical and practical issue. Because agricultural system is a complex system composed of social, economic and environmental subsystems, multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method is a feasible choice for its sustainability evaluation. This paper improves traditional MCDA from three aspects of the definition of risk index, the logical distribution function transformation of index variables and the measurement of the weight of composite index. The study indicates that improved multi-criteria decision analysis (IMCDA) method is suitable for evaluating complex systems like agro-ecosystems. The study finds that China’s agro-ecological composite risk index presents a V-shaped change during sample period. At the same time, there is an extremely unstable situation in the range of change.

Keywords: IMCDA; Agro-ecology system; Agro-ecological sustainability; Socioeconomic indicators; Composite risk index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 Q15 Q51 Q56 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s10818-022-09325-3

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