The coordinated relationship among industrialization, environmental carrying capacity and green infrastructure: A comparative research of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China

Abstract

Industrialization has a great impact on environmental carrying capacity when it promotes economic development. Similarly, the level of environmental carrying capacity also determines the quality of industrialization. As one of important means to deal with environmental problems, the construction of green infrastructure not only affects environmental carrying capacity and quality of industrialization, but also is impacted by their levels. In the context of increasing prominence of environmental problems and promoting sustainable development, realizing the coordinated development of industrialization, environmental carrying capacity and green infrastructure is key to economic high-quality development and environmental protection. Based on sustainable development theory and system coordination theory, this paper takes Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China as an example to analyze their coordinated relationship. Coupling coordination degree model is used to evaluate and compare the coordinated development levels among industrialization, environmental carrying capacity and green infrastructure of three regions based on their combination evaluations. The results show that the levels of coordinated development of industrialization, environmental carrying capacity and green infrastructure have difference among Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, but their coordinated development levels were relatively low and have large room for improvement in all of these three regions. The related policy and planning needs to be enriched and strengthened on promoting their coordinated development in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. And the supervision and management institutions also should adjusted and improved on their coordinated development.