Decoupling Relationship between Resource Environment and High-Quality Economic Development in the Yellow River Basin

Xiaojing Zhao, Xuke Li, Guoqu Deng () and Yanling Xi
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Xiaojing Zhao: Business School and MBA Education Center, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China
Xuke Li: Business School and MBA Education Center, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China
Guoqu Deng: Business School and MBA Education Center, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China
Yanling Xi: Institute of Resources, Environment and Ecology, Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, Tianjin 300191, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 12, 1-18

Abstract: Economic development highly depends on resources and the environment, especially in the Yellow River Basin (YRB), a crucial ecological protection and high-quality development pilot zone in China. Thus, evaluating high-quality economic development (HQED) and its decoupling relationship with the resource environment is conducive to planning future regional development. First, this paper used the two-stage entropy method to measure the high-quality economic development of cities in the YRB from 2010 to 2019. Then, the comprehensive decoupling analysis of the resource environment and high-quality economic development was carried out based on the Tapio decoupling model. The results showed that: (1) The high-quality economic development level improved slowly in the YRB. Nevertheless, the resource and environmental pressure gradually decreased. (2) Compared with the resource decoupling index, the environmental decoupling index had a greater impact on the comprehensive decoupling index in the YRB. The strong decoupling displayed a spatial diffusion trend from point to surface. (3) Despite the decoupling types having a positive transfer trend in the YRB, the decoupling states of cities fluctuated considerably, and the phenomenon of recoupling occurred frequently. According to the above findings, this study put forward some policy recommendations for achieving strong decoupling in the YRB.

Keywords: high-quality economic development; comprehensive decoupling index; two-stage entropy method; Tapio decoupling model; Markov chain model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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