Sustainable Risk Assessment of Resource Industry at Provincial Level in China

Mingkai Liu,Changxin Liu,Xun Ge,Shouting Zhang,Hongyan Zhang,Xiaodong Pei,Yang Li

doi:10.3390/su13084191

Abstract

The development of China’s resource industry is facing great pressures from industrial structure adjustment and environmental restraints, and the sustainable risk of the provincial resource industry is different. Considering the development of the resource industry and environmental pressure, this article selects the panel data of 31 provinces from 2015 to 2019 to construct an index evaluation system with six dimensions: influence, induction, supply and demand safety, regional pollution emission, environment quality, and pollution control. The results showed that Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shanghai had the highest sustainable risk in the resource industry, while Heilongjiang, Jilin, Tianjin, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Qinghai had the lowest sustainable risk. The resource industry model of all the provinces is divided into sustainable, industrial, ecological, and unsustainable. Finally, this article puts forward reasonable suggestions for the four scenarios and argues that the balanced development of the resource industry sector and environmental protection is conducive to reducing the sustainable risks of the resource industry.

Highlights

IntroductionThe development of China’s resource industry presents provincial differences, and there are outstanding contradictions between the development of the resource industry sector and environmental protection
An assessment of the sustainable risks of China’s provincial resource industries is conducive to the analysis of the resource industry sector’s development and environmental pressure problems in 31 provinces, providing reasonable suggestions for the regional differences in the sustainable development of the resource industry based on the analysis results, as well as means to avoid the sustainable risks of the resource industry so that the sustainable development of the resource industry nationwide can be realized
On the basis of a large number of literature reviews, we selected multiple indicators to construct an evaluation system, and used input-output, entropy method, and comprehensive evaluation methods to evaluate the sustainable risks of the resource industry in 31 provinces in China

Summary

Introduction

The development of China’s resource industry presents provincial differences, and there are outstanding contradictions between the development of the resource industry sector and environmental protection. As an important foundation of the regional economy and people’s livelihoods, its sustainable development is necessary to guarantee regional sustainable development, and a two-way drive in the resource industry sector and environmental protection must be maintained [1,2,3]. An assessment of the sustainable risks of China’s provincial resource industries is conducive to the analysis of the resource industry sector’s development and environmental pressure problems in 31 provinces, providing reasonable suggestions for the regional differences in the sustainable development of the resource industry based on the analysis results, as well as means to avoid the sustainable risks of the resource industry so that the sustainable development of the resource industry nationwide can be realized

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