Measurement of Synergy Degree between Environmental Protection and Industrial Development in the Yellow River Basin and Analysis of Its Temporal and Spatial Characteristics

Weixian Xue and Yunru Liu ()
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Weixian Xue: School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710000, China
Yunru Liu: School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710000, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: The Yellow River Basin plays an important role in economic and social development and ecological security; therefore, its ecological protection and high-quality development are vital. In order to understand the level of synergistic development between environment and industry in the Yellow River Basin, and to understand the change in synergy degree through spatial and temporal analysis, and finally to propose suggestions to provide a basis for the policy formulation of environmental protection and industrial development, informing the initiatives of the relevant parties—companies and residents, so as to ensure the high-quality development and sustainable development of the Yellow River Basin, this paper is based on the theory of synergetic and dissipative structure, and it expounds the synergetic mechanism by constructing the compound system of environment and industry in the Yellow River Basin and revealing their internal and external interactions. Based on the panel data of 57 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin from 2010 to 2020, the synergy degree of environment and industry in the Yellow River Basin and its temporal and spatial characteristics are discussed by using the synergy model of compound systems. The results show that: (1) the overall degree of environmental and industrial synergism in the Basin develops from mildly non-synergistic to mildly synergistic, but the level is still low; there are significant temporal and regional differences in synergy degree in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Basin and among cities. (2) The number of cities in the basin that are in mild synergy is increasing; the synergy degree shows an overall positive global spatial autocorrelation.

Keywords: Yellow River basin; environmental protection; industrial development; synergy mechanism; synergy degree model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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