Decoupling Relationship between Resource Environment and High-Quality Economic Development in the Yellow River Basin

Economic development highly depends on resources and the environment, especially in the Yellow River Basin (YRB), a crucial ecological protection and high-quality development pilot zone in China. Thus, evaluating high-quality economic development (HQED) and its decoupling relationship with the resou...

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Published in:Sustainability 2023-06, Vol.15 (12), p.9385
Main Authors: Zhao, Xiaojing, Li, Xuke, Deng, Guoqu, Xi, Yanling
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Chemical oxygen demand
China
Climate change
Consumption
Decoupling
Economic aspects
Economic development
Economic growth
Emissions
Environmental impact
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Productivity
Regional development
Regional planning
River basin development
River basins
Rivers
Sustainability
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Summary:Economic development highly depends on resources and the environment, especially in the Yellow River Basin (YRB), a crucial ecological protection and high-quality development pilot zone in China. Thus, evaluating high-quality economic development (HQED) and its decoupling relationship with the resource environment is conducive to planning future regional development. First, this paper used the two-stage entropy method to measure the high-quality economic development of cities in the YRB from 2010 to 2019. Then, the comprehensive decoupling analysis of the resource environment and high-quality economic development was carried out based on the Tapio decoupling model. The results showed that: (1) The high-quality economic development level improved slowly in the YRB. Nevertheless, the resource and environmental pressure gradually decreased. (2) Compared with the resource decoupling index, the environmental decoupling index had a greater impact on the comprehensive decoupling index in the YRB. The strong decoupling displayed a spatial diffusion trend from point to surface. (3) Despite the decoupling types having a positive transfer trend in the YRB, the decoupling states of cities fluctuated considerably, and the phenomenon of recoupling occurred frequently. According to the above findings, this study put forward some policy recommendations for achieving strong decoupling in the YRB.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su15129385