The Coordinated Development and Regulation Research on Public Health, Ecological Environment and Economic Development: Evidence from the Yellow River Basin of China

Wei Wei, Chenggong Jin, Ying Han, Zhenhui Huang, Tong Niu and Jinkai Li
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Wei Wei: Center for Energy Environment & Economy Research, School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Chenggong Jin: Center for Energy Environment & Economy Research, School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Ying Han: Center for Energy Environment & Economy Research, School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Zhenhui Huang: Center for Energy Environment & Economy Research, School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Tong Niu: Center for Energy Environment & Economy Research, School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Jinkai Li: Center for Energy Environment & Economy Research, School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 11, 1-23

Abstract: The dual problems of the public crisis from the global epidemic and the deterioration of the ecological environment constrain the economic development in the Yellow River Basin. To promote the sustainable and balanced development in the Yellow River Basin, this paper takes public health, ecological environment, and economic development, as a whole, to study the coordinated development of the Yellow River Basin. Based on coupling coordinated theory, we use the SMI-P method to evaluate the coordinated development index of public health, the ecological environment, and economic development in the Yellow River Basin. Moreover, we use the coordinated regulation and obstacle factor diagnosis to identify the main influencing factors and design regulation methods to optimize the coordinated development index. The results found that (1), during the research period, there is spatiotemporal heterogeneity in the coordinated development level in the Yellow River Basin. From 2009 to 2019, the overall development index increased steadily, while the regional disparity in the coordinated development level was obvious. (2) The ecological environment indicators contribute more to the relevance and obstacle factors, such as the average concentration of fine particulate matter, per capita arable land area, afforestation area, etc. (3) After regulating the overall development level of the Yellow River Basin, we prove that Path 4, which comprehensively considers the relevance and obstacle factors, performs better.

Keywords: yellow river basin; public health; ecological environment; economic development; coupling coordination theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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