Quantitative Measurement of the Sustainable Water Resource Development System in China Inspired by Dissipative Structure Theory

Xuedong Liang, Ruyun Zhang, Canmian Liu and Haiyue Liu
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Xuedong Liang: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Ruyun Zhang: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Canmian Liu: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Haiyue Liu: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-16

Abstract: In an attempt to ensure sustainable water resource development, this paper constructs a comprehensive scientific index evaluation system focused on the macro socio-economic-ecological environment. Inspired by the theory of dissipative structure, the sustainable development system of water resources is regarded as a complex and huge dissipative system. In order to effectively measure the coordinated development status and orderly evolution trend of the system, this paper uses the information entropy method to construct the measurement model of the water resources system and analyze its internal entropy flow changes. The empirical analysis of the water resources in China from 2007 to 2016 found that coordinated water resource subsystem development could achieve sustainable development, and that over the examined period, the sustainable water resource development system in China became more orderly and coordinated; therefore, the sustainable development aim is gradually being achieved.

Keywords: dissipative structure theory; information entropy; quantitative evaluation; sustainable development system; water resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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