Research on the Sustainable Development Evaluation of Resource-Based Cities

Abstract:

Based on the resource-based cities, we could establish a comprehensive evaluation index system. Principal component analysis (PCA) model is perfect to such evaluation. It can eliminate the related influence between evaluation indexes and reduce the workload of evaluation. The paper applied the principal component analysis to Baotou city and other 5 western resource-based cities so as to make a comprehensive evaluation about sustainable development ability. The results show that the sustainable development ability of Baotou city from2003 to 2012 is a fluctuated improving trend. And it ranks fourth in the selected western resource-based cities. The issue about the way to improve the sustainable development ability of resource-based cities is discussed in this paper.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 869-870)
• Pages: 1128-1132
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.869-870.1128
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: Yu Chen Song, Wei He, Xiao Bing Li, Yan Han
• Keywords: Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Resource-Based City, Sustainable Development

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