Level Assessment of Ecological Environment of China and Sustainable Development Strategies

Nature Environment and Pollution Technology

关键词: ecological environment, level assessment, sustainable, development strategy;   

DOI  :  10.46488/NEPT.2021.v20i02.027

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

China’s ecological environmental level is not high because of the intensifying resource constraint, heavy environmental pollution, and ecosystem degradation. The highly industrialized process leads to resource exhaustion, energy shortage, environmental deterioration, and ecological imbalance, which threaten sustainable economic growth and social progress. Effective living environmental level assessment in different provinces in China is an important premise to insist on the new development mode of high resource utilization, good environmental protection effect, and evident ecological efficiency in the new stage. In this study, studies on ecological environment level assessment and sustainable development strategies of the ecological environment were summarized. An ecological environment level assessment index system was constructed from the perspectives of water environment, living environment, forest environment, agricultural environment, and sudden environmental event. The ecological environmental level measurements of 31 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in China in 2019 were measured by the entropy weight-technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) model. Results demonstrate that total water resources, forestry investment, and completed investment in industrial pollution control are the three most important indexes to measure the ecological level of a province, which account for 50% of weights. The relative closeness (C) of TOPSIS estimation results range in the interval of 0.215-0.510. The ecological environmental level of 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China in 2019 could be generally divided into three types. To realize China’s ecological environment and economic social coordinated development, some sustainable development strategies, including 1) optimizing energy structure and accelerating economic development; 2) strengthening environmental control and relieving industrial waste emissions; 3) strengthening ecological construction planning and increasing law enforcement in ecological environmental pollution; 4) increasing bearing capacity of ecological environment and protecting ecological environment sustainable development, were proposed. Research conclusions have an important role in exploring the current provincial ecological environmental levels, promoting coordinated development of the economy-resource-environment system, and enriching policies concerning China’s ecological environment sustainable development.

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