Geographical Detection Analysis and Spatiotemporal Disparity Characteristics of the Coupling Coordination Development between Urbanization and the Eco-Environment

Xiangman Chen () and Xuezhou Liu ()
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Xiangman Chen: Business School, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
Xuezhou Liu: Business School, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-19

Abstract: The study of the coupling coordinated relationship between urbanization and the eco-environment is important to promote regional high-quality development. This paper measured the coupling coordination degree between urbanization and the eco-environment from 2008 to 2020, using the coupling coordination model, depicted its spatiotemporal characteristics with ArcGIS, and explored its driving factors and impacts of the interaction between pairwise factors on it with geo-detection methods. The results show that the coupling coordination level becomes increasingly improved, but there exist widening spatial disparities, and in 2020, its spatial distribution presents characteristics of “decreasing from north to south” and “increasing from west to east”. According to their evolutionary characteristics of coupling coordination categories, cities can be classified into four types: “transition from basic misalignment to primary coordination”, “transition from primary coordination to intermediate coordination”, “transition from primary coordination to senior coordination”, “no hierarchical transition”. Currently, driving factors of industrial structure, opening to the outside world and technological innovation significantly affect the coupling coordination degree, and the interaction between pairwise factors is enhanced. Policies should be implemented in categories to improve the coupling coordination level. Regional cooperation, exchanges, and interconnection of resources and factors should be strengthened to jointly build a coordinated regional development pattern.

Keywords: urbanization; eco-environment; coupling coordination; spatiotemporal characteristics; driving factors (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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