Sustainable Risk Assessment of Resource Industry at Provincial Level in China

Mingkai Liu, Changxin Liu, Xiaodong Pei, Shouting Zhang, Xun Ge, Hongyan Zhang and Yang Li
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Mingkai Liu: School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Changxin Liu: Institute of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Xiaodong Pei: Institute of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Shouting Zhang: School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Xun Ge: School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Hongyan Zhang: School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Yang Li: National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-15

Abstract: The development of China’s resource industry is facing great pressures from industrial structure adjustment and environmental restraints, and the sustainable risk of the provincial resource industry is different. Considering the development of the resource industry and environmental pressure, this article selects the panel data of 31 provinces from 2015 to 2019 to construct an index evaluation system with six dimensions: influence, induction, supply and demand safety, regional pollution emission, environment quality, and pollution control. The results showed that Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shanghai had the highest sustainable risk in the resource industry, while Heilongjiang, Jilin, Tianjin, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Qinghai had the lowest sustainable risk. The resource industry model of all the provinces is divided into sustainable, industrial, ecological, and unsustainable. Finally, this article puts forward reasonable suggestions for the four scenarios and argues that the balanced development of the resource industry sector and environmental protection is conducive to reducing the sustainable risks of the resource industry.

Keywords: China; resource industry; sustainable risk; environment; assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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