Ecological Welfare Performance Evaluation and Spatial–Temporal Difference Evolution of Blue Economic Zones: A Case Study of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula
The construction and development of the Blue Economic Zone on the Shandong Peninsula in China was elevated to a national strategy in 2011, and it has achieved year-on-year economic growth, driving the economic development of Shandong Province. However, it has also generated problems, such as a fragi...
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| author | Xuhui Cong Zhipeng Qi Sai Wang Peikun Su Liang Wang Jonas Šaparauskas Jarosław Górecki Miroslaw J. Skibniewski |
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| description | The construction and development of the Blue Economic Zone on the Shandong Peninsula in China was elevated to a national strategy in 2011, and it has achieved year-on-year economic growth, driving the economic development of Shandong Province. However, it has also generated problems, such as a fragile ecological environment, unbalanced regional development, and prominent human–land conflicts. Therefore, on the basis of the idea of green sustainable development, this paper measures the ecological welfare performance of seven prefecture-level cities in the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula from 2011 to 2020 using an entropy-weighted model together with the TOPSIS method. It then analyzes their spatial distribution characteristics using the natural breaks method. Our findings show that the overall ecological welfare performance level in the Shandong Peninsula BEZ shows a stable upward trend, and that the ecological welfare performance of each city is similar to that of the divided region. The ecological welfare performance levels of Weifang, Rizhao, and Binzhou are relatively low. Dongying, Weihai, Qingdao, and Yantai form a cluster of cities with high ecological welfare performance. Therefore, for the advancement of the Shandong Peninsula BEZ, the government should the government should reasonably deploy the industrial structure; actively implement industrial transformation; strengthen the synergistic development among cities to achieve complementary advantages, coordinating the growth of rural and urban areas; and improve the social security system to achieve high-quality sustainable development in the Shandong Peninsula BEZ. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7ebf63ef5b424255af4b0f9b5e7de67a2023-11-19T17:03:59ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2023-10-011210188610.3390/land12101886Ecological Welfare Performance Evaluation and Spatial–Temporal Difference Evolution of Blue Economic Zones: A Case Study of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong PeninsulaXuhui Cong0Zhipeng Qi1Sai Wang2Peikun Su3Liang Wang4Jonas Šaparauskas5Jarosław Górecki6Miroslaw J. Skibniewski7Business School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, ChinaBusiness School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, ChinaBusiness School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, ChinaBusiness School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, ChinaInternational Business School, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, ChinaDepartment of Construction Management and Real Estate, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio Al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, LithuaniaFaculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, PolandDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USAThe construction and development of the Blue Economic Zone on the Shandong Peninsula in China was elevated to a national strategy in 2011, and it has achieved year-on-year economic growth, driving the economic development of Shandong Province. However, it has also generated problems, such as a fragile ecological environment, unbalanced regional development, and prominent human–land conflicts. Therefore, on the basis of the idea of green sustainable development, this paper measures the ecological welfare performance of seven prefecture-level cities in the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula from 2011 to 2020 using an entropy-weighted model together with the TOPSIS method. It then analyzes their spatial distribution characteristics using the natural breaks method. Our findings show that the overall ecological welfare performance level in the Shandong Peninsula BEZ shows a stable upward trend, and that the ecological welfare performance of each city is similar to that of the divided region. The ecological welfare performance levels of Weifang, Rizhao, and Binzhou are relatively low. Dongying, Weihai, Qingdao, and Yantai form a cluster of cities with high ecological welfare performance. Therefore, for the advancement of the Shandong Peninsula BEZ, the government should the government should reasonably deploy the industrial structure; actively implement industrial transformation; strengthen the synergistic development among cities to achieve complementary advantages, coordinating the growth of rural and urban areas; and improve the social security system to achieve high-quality sustainable development in the Shandong Peninsula BEZ.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/10/1886Blue Economic Zoneecological welfare performanceTOPSIS modelnatural breaks methodspatial and temporal variationentropy-weighted model |
| spellingShingle | Xuhui Cong Zhipeng Qi Sai Wang Peikun Su Liang Wang Jonas Šaparauskas Jarosław Górecki Miroslaw J. Skibniewski Ecological Welfare Performance Evaluation and Spatial–Temporal Difference Evolution of Blue Economic Zones: A Case Study of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula Land Blue Economic Zone ecological welfare performance TOPSIS model natural breaks method spatial and temporal variation entropy-weighted model |
| title | Ecological Welfare Performance Evaluation and Spatial–Temporal Difference Evolution of Blue Economic Zones: A Case Study of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula |
| title_full | Ecological Welfare Performance Evaluation and Spatial–Temporal Difference Evolution of Blue Economic Zones: A Case Study of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula |
| title_fullStr | Ecological Welfare Performance Evaluation and Spatial–Temporal Difference Evolution of Blue Economic Zones: A Case Study of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ecological Welfare Performance Evaluation and Spatial–Temporal Difference Evolution of Blue Economic Zones: A Case Study of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula |
| title_short | Ecological Welfare Performance Evaluation and Spatial–Temporal Difference Evolution of Blue Economic Zones: A Case Study of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula |
| title_sort | ecological welfare performance evaluation and spatial temporal difference evolution of blue economic zones a case study of the blue economic zone of shandong peninsula |
| topic | Blue Economic Zone ecological welfare performance TOPSIS model natural breaks method spatial and temporal variation entropy-weighted model |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/10/1886 |
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