Assessing the Development Level of China's National Sustainable Communities at County Level

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10.2991/aeece-15.2015.88How to use a DOI?

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county-level city; coordination index; sustainable development; cluster analysis

Abstract

In this paper the sustainable development level of 77 China national sustainable communities at county level was assessed. An assessment indicator system was designed composing of 3 first-level indicators and 14 second-level indicators. The entropy method was employed to calculate the development index and sustainable development level of selected cities. Based on cluster analysis results, the studied cities were categorized into three patterns, i.e. highly coordinated, moderately coordinated and low coordinated. The coordination index was 0.69±0.08, 0.48±0.05 and 0.32±0.05, taking up 9.09%, 51.95% and 38.96% of the total respectively. The three kinds of sustainable development pattern were then compared in terms of their economic, social and environmental development level, so as to set directions for raising the sustainable development level of county-level cities.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Leigang Shi
AU  - Huarui Wu
AU  - Yuli Lin
AU  - Xiang Sun
AU  - Heju Huai
AU  - Cunjun Li
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Assessing the Development Level of China's National Sustainable Communities at County Level
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 436
EP  - 440
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aeece-15.2015.88
DO  - 10.2991/aeece-15.2015.88
ID  - Shi2015/09
ER  -