Evaluating the Coupling Coordinated Development between Regional Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development: A Case Study of Guizhou, China

Zhe Cheng, Tianyu Zhao, Yixin Zhu and Hanshi Li ()
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Tianyu Zhao: School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Yixin Zhu: School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Hanshi Li: State Information Center, Beijing 100038, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-14

Abstract: Promoting the coupling coordinated development between ecological protection and high-quality development is an important path to achieve sustainable regional development around the world. Taking Guizhou, China as a typical case, this study builds a comprehensive evaluation index system for ecological protection and high-quality development, and then uses the coupling coordination degree model to assess the spatiotemporal characteristics of ecological protection and high-quality development. According to the findings, Guizhou’s ecological protection index and high-quality development index both exhibit an upward trend and a center-edge spatial pattern, but they also exhibit a “spatial misalignment relationship”. The coupling coordination between ecological protection and high-quality development in Guizhou has shown a continuous growth trend from near-disorder to a primary coordination, with a spatial pattern of “central > western > eastern”. This study enriches the knowledge body of sustainable development, helps Guizhou make decisions that are best for ecological protection and high-quality development, and is useful as a reference for other regions and countries.

Keywords: coupling coordinated development; regional ecological protection; high-quality development; spatiotemporal characteristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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