Assessment Model of Comprehensive Coordination and Sustainable Development for Coastal City

Abstract:

Studying on coastal zone sustainable development (CZSD) has become the hot research region, and setting up the indicator systems and the assessment models of CZSD has being become a challenging task. Thirty-six indicators and three composite indices from the dimensions of environment, economy and society subsystems are built and used to assessment the comprehensive coordination degree and sustainable development degree of coastal city in this paper, and analytical hierarchy process and multi-variate statistics analysis method are adopted to determine the indicator’s weight. As a case study, Tianjin was assessed for sustainable development in the period from 2000 to 2010. The results showed that Tianjin was almost in the potentially unsustainable development or intermediate sustainable development.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 616-618)
• Pages: 1451-1454
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.616-618.1451
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Hong Tao Nie, Xiao Fu Xu, Jian Hua Tao
• Keywords: Assessment Model, Coastal City, Comprehensive Coordination Degree, Indicator, Sustainable Development Degree

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