Evaluation of Ecological Environmental Quality in a Coal Mining Area by Modelling Approach

Chaodong Yan, Hongjun Dai and Wen Guo
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Chaodong Yan: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China
Hongjun Dai: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China
Wen Guo: Accounting Department, College of Accounting, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, Nanjing 210046, China

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 8, 1-13

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the effective method of the comprehensive evaluation of ecological environmental quality in a coal mining area. Firstly, we analyzed the ecological environmental effect of the coal mining area according to Pigovian Tax theory and, according to the results of the analysis and the demand for the selection of evaluation indices by the comprehensive evaluation, built the corresponding comprehensive evaluation index system. We then used the correlation function method to determine the relative weights of each index. We determined the basic standards of a comprehensive evaluation of ecological environmental quality in a coal mining area according to the actual situation of ecological environmental quality assessments in coal mining areas in our country and the relevant provisions of the government. On this basis, we built the two-level extension comprehensive evaluation model for the evaluation of ecological environmental quality in mining areas. Finally, we chose a certain coal mining area of Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited as the specific case. We used the relevant statistic data, technical and economic indices and the extension evaluation model to do the applied research of the comprehensive evaluation and tested the effectiveness of the comprehensive evaluation model.

Keywords: environmental quality; comprehensive evaluation; effect of evaluation; ecological environment; coal mining areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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