Abstract
Traditional development models are being slowly replaced by green economic development models. This paper views regional green economic development as a large complex system and develops a conceptual DPSIR (drivers, pressures, state, impact, response model of intervention) to construct a regional green economy development measurement index system, after which an entropy weight-TOPSIS-coupling coordination degree evaluation model is developed to quantitatively horizontally and vertically analyze regional green economy sustainable development trends and the coupled coordination status of each subsystem. The evaluation model is then employed to analyze the sustainable development of the green economy in Shandong Province from 2010 to 2016. The analysis results were found to be in line with the actual green economy development situation in Shandong Province, indicating that the measurement model had strong practicability for regional green economy development. Meanwhile, this model can demonstrate clearly how those indicators impact on the regional green economy sustainable development and fill the absence of existing studies on regional green economy sustainable development.
Highlights
Green development is a necessary condition for sustainable development, which is essential for a better life in the future
The progress made in recent years by Shandong Province was mainly due to the active implementation of the green economy development concept
The model was verified by the actual situation of green economy development in Shandong Province from 2010 to 2016, which confirmed the feasibility of the method
Summary
Green development is a necessary condition for sustainable development, which is essential for a better life in the future. Research scholars have evaluated green economy development by selecting green GDP [10,11,12] green economy efficiency [13,14,15], green economy indexes [16,17], and other indicators While these green economy evaluation index systems were able to better measure the development of green economies in certain areas, they were only able to describe green economy development levels on a macro level, and were unable to deeply analyze the impact of the economic, resource, environmental, social, and technological factor interactions on green economy development.
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