Abstract
The high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin has to be fostered by the coordination of resources, environment, and economy. Therefore, conducting an analysis on the coupling level of resources, environment, and economy in the Yellow River Basin is of major significance to the research on its high-quality development path. The current study focuses on the coupling coordination in the Yellow River Basin. Based on the data of the nine provinces in the Yellow River Basin from 2004 to 2017, a coupling development model is constructed for an analysis of the coupling level in this area and a modeling prediction. A comprehensive evaluation of the development level of resources-environment-economy system and the subsystems in the Yellow River Basin is performed by combining the range change method and entropy weight method. The result shows that despite the rising coupling level of resources, environment, and economy in the Yellow River Basin, the comprehensive evaluation value of the environment subsystem is low, which was merely 0.109 in 2017 and has remained unchanged between 2009 and 2017, resulting in a low coupling coordination degree of resources, environment, and economy. In 2017, the coupling coordination degree only exceeded 0.4. The development was on the verge of imbalance and the high-quality coordinated development of the Yellow River Basin has been restricted.
Highlights
Since ancient times, the Yellow River Basin has been the center of China's political, economic and cultural development
SE1 means that the comprehensive evaluation values of the three subsystems each increase by 0.1; SE2 means that the comprehensive evaluation value of resource system increases by 0.3; SE3 means that the comprehensive evaluation value of environmental system increases by 0.3; SE4 means that the comprehensive evaluation value of economic system rises by 0.3; In order to make up for the shortcomings of the environment and economic system in 2017, SE5 increased the comprehensive evaluation value of the environmental system by 0.2 and the comprehensive evaluation value of the economic system by 0.1; SE6 is set so that the comprehensive evaluation value of each subsystem rises to 0.65
Under SE4 path, the comprehensive evaluation value of economic system is greatly improved, and the coupling coordination degree of resources and environment is low, which is similar to SE2 path, which restricts the coordinated development of the whole system; Under the SE5 path, the shortcomings of the environment and economic system are complemented, the coordination level has been better improved, and the coordination degree of resource-environment-economy coupling has increased; Under SE6 scenario, the comprehensive evaluation value of each subsystem reaches 0.65, and the coupling coordination degree among each system can reach a good coordination level, approaching the high-quality development trend
Summary
The Yellow River Basin has been the center of China's political, economic and cultural development. With the concept of cultural self-confidence and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation put forward, the value of resources, economy, society, culture and ecological civilization in the Yellow River Basin is unprecedentedly prominent. In this context, Xi Jinping presided over the symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in 2019, which promoted the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin as a major national strategy [2]. As an important ecological functional area in China, the Yellow River Basin is an ecologically fragile area, and the importance of ecological protection is more prominent [3]. A comprehensive investigation of the evolution and development trend of Resources-Environment-Economic development in the Yellow River Basin is a beneficial
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