An Integrated Approach to Explore the Relationship Among Economic, Construction Land Use, and Ecology Subsystems in Zhejiang Province, China

Chuyu Xia, Yan Li, Yanmei Ye and Zhou Shi
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Chuyu Xia: Institute of Land Science and Property Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Yan Li: Institute of Land Science and Property Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Yanmei Ye: Institute of Land Science and Property Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Zhou Shi: Institute of Agricultural Remote Sensing and Information Technology Application, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 5, 1-20

Abstract: Zhejiang Province, China is experiencing rapid urbanization, facing the challenge of coupling socioeconomic development and ecological conservation. This paper establishes a comprehensive index system to assess coordinating development of economic, construction land use (CLU), and ecology subsystems. A Granger test and a coupling coordination model were applied to explore the causal relationship and the coordinated development state among the three subsystems from 2000 to 2012. The results showed that: (1) changes in the integrated value of the economic subsystem were the Granger cause of changes in the ecology and CLU subsystems, and the changes in the integrated values of ecology and CLU was each other’s Granger cause; (2) the coupling coordination relationship of the integrated value for economic–CLU–ecology was constrained by the relationship between the economic and the CLU subsystems from 2000 to 2004, and that between the ecology and the economic subsystems was the impediment of the sustainable development of economic–CLU–ecology from 2004 to 2012. This research helps to identify approach to sustainable development through analyzing synergistic effects, interdependencies, and trade-offs among the integrated economic–CLU–ecology values, and to make significant contribution to urban planning policies in rapid urbanization region.

Keywords: sustainable development; integrated value of economic; CLU; ecology; Granger test; coupling coordination degree model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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