Coupling Coordination Analysis of the Ecology and Economy in the Yellow River Basin under the Background of High-Quality Development

Shi An, Shaoliang Zhang, Huping Hou, Yiyan Zhang, Haonan Xu and Jie Liang
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Shi An: School of Public Policy and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Shaoliang Zhang: School of Public Policy and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Huping Hou: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Yiyan Zhang: School of Public Policy and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Haonan Xu: School of Public Policy and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Jie Liang: College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100091, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-19

Abstract: The concept of high-quality development has become the current theme of China’s economic construction. High-quality development requires maintaining a healthy and cyclical approach to economic development, which is a challenge in the original development approach. Yet, a great deal of evidence suggests that there is a strong interrelationship between economic development and the ecological environment, and developing a method to quantify this interrelationship is important for studying the extent of high-quality development. Here, we propose a new indicator system using the coupling degree model and the coupling coordination degree model to assess the coupled coordination of economic development and the ecological environment in the Yellow River basin as a whole and in each province. We found that: (1) the economic development and ecological health of the Yellow River basin exhibit a slowly increasing trend; (2) the coupling degree of the economic development and ecological environment is high, indicating that the interaction between the economy and ecology is very strong; and (3) the increasing degree of coupling and coordination reflects the trend of continuous improvement and coordination in the relationship between the economy and ecological environment, and the level of high-quality development in the basin has continuously increased. The results of this study indicate that to continue to strengthen the high-quality development in the Yellow River basin, the contradiction between the economy and ecology should be alleviated, and coordinated development of both should be achieved.

Keywords: coupling coordination degree; coupling degree; ecological status; economic development; Yellow River basin (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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