Measurement of Regional Green Economy Sustainable Development Ability Based on Entropy Weight-Topsis-Coupling Coordination Degree—A Case Study in Shandong Province, China

Min Wang, Xianli Zhao, Qunxi Gong and Zhigeng Ji
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Min Wang: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Xianli Zhao: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Qunxi Gong: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Zhigeng Ji: Marxism School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610207, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: Traditional development models are being slowly replaced by green economic development models. This paper views regional green economic development as a large complex system and develops a conceptual DPSIR (drivers, pressures, state, impact, response model of intervention) to construct a regional green economy development measurement index system, after which an entropy weight-TOPSIS-coupling coordination degree evaluation model is developed to quantitatively horizontally and vertically analyze regional green economy sustainable development trends and the coupled coordination status of each subsystem. The evaluation model is then employed to analyze the sustainable development of the green economy in Shandong Province from 2010 to 2016. The analysis results were found to be in line with the actual green economy development situation in Shandong Province, indicating that the measurement model had strong practicability for regional green economy development. Meanwhile, this model can demonstrate clearly how those indicators impact on the regional green economy sustainable development and fill the absence of existing studies on regional green economy sustainable development.

Keywords: green economy; sustainable development; DPSIR; entropy weight-TOPSIS-coupling coordination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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