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Assessment of the Coupling and Coordination Ability of Airport Agglomerations

  • Yu Sun,
  • Lei Liang,
  • Xiaolei Chong,
  • Zhenglei Chen,
  • Jing Xue and
  • Zijian Deng

Airport agglomeration coupling coordination is a key indicator of healthy regional aviation development. This study constructs an evaluation index system from three dimensions—airport production, infrastructure construction, and network support...

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  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,351 Views
23 Pages

An Evaluation of Coupling Coordination between Tourism and Finance

  • Kai-Cheng Liao,
  • Ming-Yue Yue,
  • Si-Wei Sun,
  • Hong-Bo Xue,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai and
  • Jiang-Tao Wang

4 July 2018

The tourism industry has become a new growth engine that closely coordinates with the financial industry and contributes to the sustainable development of local economies. This study establishes a comprehensive index system and evaluates the coupling...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,919 Views
19 Pages

28 September 2023

In the context of global resource scarcity, the integrated and coordinated development of urban modernization and low-carbon development is becoming more and more crucial. In order to calculate the degree of coupling coordination between urban modern...

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  • Open Access
60 Citations
4,051 Views
18 Pages

Coordination Study on Ecological and Economic Coupling of the Yellow River Basin

  • Yanhong Zhao,
  • Peng Hou,
  • Jinbao Jiang,
  • Jun Zhai,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Yongcai Wang,
  • Junjun Bai,
  • Bing Zhang and
  • Haitao Xu

The coupling and coordination relationship between ecology and the economy in the Yellow River Basin is a hot topic in sustainable development research. Said research has important guiding significance for the ecological security and comprehensive de...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,595 Views
21 Pages

Coupling Coordination of Urban Pseudo and Reality Human Settlements

  • Shenzhen Tian,
  • Bing Yang,
  • Zhangli Liu,
  • Xueming Li and
  • Wei Zhang

11 March 2022

Urban pseudo and reality human settlements (PHSs and RHSs) are important components of the human–land relationship regional system. To explore the coupling and coordination relationship and principle among them is an important approach to high-...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,668 Views
24 Pages

A Coupling Coordination Assessment of the Land–Water–Food Nexus in China

  • Cong Liu,
  • Wenlai Jiang,
  • Jianmei Wei,
  • Hui Lu,
  • Yang Liu and
  • Qing Li

The synergistic relation among land resources, water resources, and food production plays a crucial role in sustainable agricultural development. This research constructs a coupling coordination assessment system of the land–water–food (L...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,093 Views
20 Pages

18 February 2019

To explore the law of coupling coordination development of China’s photovoltaic (PV) agriculture system, this study measured the comprehensive development level of the agriculture and PV industries from 2007 to 2016 using China’s agricult...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,997 Views
18 Pages

Coupling Coordination Development of the Ecological–Economic System in Hangzhou, China

  • Jialiang Ni,
  • Xiaodong Zheng,
  • Yuman Zheng,
  • Yunhe Zhang and
  • Huan Li

5 December 2023

The contradiction between China’s urban economic development and the ecological environment has become increasingly prominent. Promoting the coordinated development of the ecological–economic system is an effective way to achieve sustaina...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,601 Views
18 Pages

Coupling and Coordination between Digital Economy and Urban–Rural Integration in China

  • Jiacheng Man,
  • Jianxu Liu,
  • Baomin Cui,
  • Yuanqing Sun and
  • Songsak Sriboonchitta

27 April 2023

The positive interaction between digital economy development and urban–rural relationship adjustment can both expand the contribution of technological factors and enhance the balance of urban–rural development. This paper aims to explore...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,814 Views
27 Pages

19 October 2023

The digital economy uses its own digital information advantages to reduce the intensity of energy consumption brought by economic growth. Intelligent manufacturing achieves cost reduction and efficiency through the integration of manufacturing and in...

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23 Citations
4,069 Views
22 Pages

20 November 2022

The systems of cultural heritage protection and tourism development are intertwined, so enhancing the coupling coordination status between them is beneficial to stimulate their growth. This study first constructs the theoretical coupling coordination...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,296 Views
20 Pages

Analysis on Coupling Coordination Degree for Cropland and Livestock from 2000 to 2020 in China

  • Jianxing Chen,
  • Xuesong Gao,
  • Yanyan Zhang,
  • Petri Penttinen,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Jing Ling,
  • Ting Lan,
  • Dinghua Ou and
  • Yang Li

The decoupling of cropland and livestock due to the industrialization of livestock production is a difficult problem for sustainable agricultural development in many global locations, including China. As population and urbanization increase, this dec...

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70 Citations
7,644 Views
18 Pages

Coupling and Coordination Degrees of the Core Water–Energy–Food Nexus in China

  • Shasha Xu,
  • Weijun He,
  • Juqin Shen,
  • Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu,
  • Liang Yuan and
  • Yang Kong

Achieving sustainable development in the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus is gaining global attention. The coupling and coordination degrees are a way to measure sustainable development levels of a complex system. This study assessed the cou...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
3,907 Views
13 Pages

Study on the Coupling Coordination Relationship between Water-Use Efficiency and Economic Development

  • Wenjie Xu,
  • Xiaoping Zhang,
  • Qian Xu,
  • Huiling Gong,
  • Qing Li,
  • Bo Liu and
  • Jingwei Zhang

9 February 2020

In order to achieve the sustainable utilization of water resources and the sustainable development of the economy, an evaluation index system for water-use efficiency and economic development systems was constructed. The entropy weight and the compre...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,722 Views
20 Pages

Coupling and Coordination between Tourism, the Environment and Carbon Emissions in the Tibetan Plateau

  • Jiayuan Wang,
  • Lin Yi,
  • Lingling Chen,
  • Yanbing Hou,
  • Qi Zhang and
  • Xuming Yang

26 April 2024

Studying the relationships among tourism, the environment and carbon emissions is key to understanding how tourism activity affects the sustainable development of tourism in the Tibetan Plateau. Using Lhasa, Tibet, as a case study, the coupling and c...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
826 Views
23 Pages

Coupling Coordination Evaluation of Ecological Security in Coal Resource-Exhausted Villages

  • Pingjia Luo,
  • Tianlong Liu,
  • Haiyang Cao,
  • Hao Chen and
  • Weixi Chen

18 April 2025

Although the exploitation of coal resources has driven regional economic growth, it has also inflicted considerable ecological damage. The sustainable development of ecological security in coal resource-exhausted villages is challenged by multiple pr...

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  • Open Access
1,039 Views
22 Pages

1 August 2025

Digital technologies could facilitate green development by enhancing energy efficiency. However, existing research on coupling coordination between digital infrastructure and green development remains scarce. To fill this research gap, this study ana...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,692 Views
17 Pages

Coupling Coordination Degree of Land, Ecology, and Food and Its Influencing Factors in Henan Province

  • Xian Yang,
  • Donghao Li,
  • Miao Wang,
  • Xinjie Shi,
  • Yong Wu,
  • Ling Li and
  • Wenpei Cai

14 September 2024

Studying the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of the coupling coordination of the land–ecology–food system (LEF) aids in promoting green agricultural development and regional resource management. This study enriches food indicator...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,589 Views
15 Pages

6 December 2022

Taking “blue granary” as the research object, this study focuses on the mechanism and evolution of coupling coordination relationship between green transformation and the quality of economic development, to explore the path of sustainable...

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1 Citations
1,552 Views
16 Pages

14 May 2025

Based on the statistical data of Wuhan from 2000 to 2022, this paper constructs an evaluation system for the coordinated development of new urbanization and the economy. It uses the entropy weight method and the coupling coordination degree model to...

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12 Citations
2,837 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2023

With the rapid development of society and economy, people’s demand for ecosystem services is constantly increasing. All countries support this demand by vigorously developing green finance. The coordinated development of green finance and ecosy...

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21 Citations
3,752 Views
16 Pages

This study analyzes the coupling coordination of green finance, digital economy, and ecological environment, and constructs an evaluation index system of coupling coordination degree. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2020...

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6 Citations
2,608 Views
22 Pages

7 April 2023

For sustainable economic development, it is extremely important to understand how digital finance and technological innovation are coupled and how the spatial coupling network is connected. Based on panel data collected from 31 Chinese provinces betw...

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  • Open Access
683 Views
38 Pages

15 October 2025

Affordable housing development is an important livelihood project for promoting the harmonious development of the urban economy and society. However, the unclear spatial–temporal characteristics of the affordable housing market and urban develo...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,321 Views
32 Pages

The coordinated promotion of urban digitalization and green development is an inevitable requirement for sustainable development in the digital age. Based on the coupling mechanism of urban digitalization and green development, in this study, we took...

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8 Citations
3,187 Views
21 Pages

A supply of high-quality cultural tourism products effectively promotes people’s happiness. This study takes the coupling and coordination relationship between cultural tourism (CT) and objective well-being (OWB) in western China as the researc...

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5 Citations
1,470 Views
23 Pages

15 November 2024

Reclaimed water utilization is one of the major strategies used to achieve sustainable development in China and for alleviating issues linked to insufficient water supply. This study leverages panel data encompassing 30 provinces in mainland China fr...

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4 Citations
2,547 Views
13 Pages

9 January 2023

The coordinated development of digital finance and the advanced manufacturing industry is vital for high-quality economic development. Based on the provincial data of China from 2012 to 2020, this study applied the coupling coordination degree model,...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
913 Views
21 Pages

Evaluation of the Coupling Coordination Degree Between PM2.5 and Urbanization Level: A Case in Guangdong Province

  • Jiwei Shen,
  • Ziwen Zhu,
  • Dakang Wang,
  • Yingpin Yang,
  • Yongru Mo,
  • Hui Xia,
  • Xiankun Yang,
  • Yibo Wang,
  • Zhen Li and
  • Jinnian Wang

24 July 2025

PM2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 µm) pollution is one of the most common problems triggered by the acceleration of urbanization. The coordinated development of cities and the environment has been a topic of signif...

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363 Views
21 Pages

15 January 2026

The natural gas sector, as a pivotal transition fuel, is fundamentally constrained by the “Energy Trilemma”—the intertwined and often competing goals of energy security, affordability, and sustainability. Current research predominan...

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9 Citations
3,494 Views
29 Pages

7 June 2022

The comprehensive quality evaluation of the lakefront landscape relies on a combination of subjective and objective methods. This study aims to evaluate the coupling coordination between spatial quality and public sentiment in Wuhan’s lakefront...

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4 Citations
2,111 Views
24 Pages

When studying the coupling coordination relationship between agricultural eco-efficiency and urbanization, it is crucial to consider food security, especially in a populous country like China. This paper focuses on 31 provinces in China as the resear...

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1 Citations
1,376 Views
25 Pages

30 August 2025

The digital economy injects developmental momentum into urban–rural integration through technological penetration, while urban–rural integration expands application scenarios for the digital economy via spatial restructuring. By clarifyin...

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9 Citations
2,545 Views
14 Pages

30 January 2023

Coupling development between university science and technology (S&T) innovation and economy is an objective requirement for achieving sustainable economic and social development. The main goal of this paper is to explore the situation of the coup...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,357 Views
18 Pages

Coupling Coordination Degree of AOD and Air Pollutants in Shandong Province from 2015 to 2020

  • Ping Wang,
  • Qingxin Tang,
  • Yuxin Zhu,
  • Yaqian He,
  • Quanzhou Yu,
  • Tianquan Liang and
  • Yuying Ran

30 March 2023

In order to reveal the correlation between aerosols and pollution indicators, the MODIS aerosol optical depth (AOD) was used to investigate the distribution of AOD in 16 prefecture-level cities in Shandong Province from 2015 to 2020. This study quant...

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11 Citations
2,948 Views
22 Pages

5 February 2023

The coupling of and coordination between science and technology innovation (STI) and sustainable development (SD) is a basic requirement for Anhui Province’s economic high-quality development. According to panel data of 16 prefecture-level citi...

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52 Citations
5,654 Views
19 Pages

31 January 2022

The economic–tourism–environment (ETE) is a complex system with extensive connotations and coupling characteristics. The exact understanding of these systems forms the prerequisite and basis for regional development. This study explores t...

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1,560 Views
18 Pages

28 October 2024

The coordinated development of ecological protection and socioeconomics in the Tibetan Plateau is of great significance. This study examines the coupling coordination of urban ecosystems and economic development across 15 municipal administrative uni...

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46 Citations
5,646 Views
24 Pages

16 September 2021

China’s economy has stepped up from the high-speed growth stage to the high-quality development stage. With the high-quality development of the economy, the logistics industry is bound to move towards high-quality development. By establishing the ind...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,027 Views
28 Pages

26 August 2024

Whether the new type of urbanization implemented in China in the past decade has been effective in regulating urbanization and balancing human development and environmental protection remains to be verified. Therefore, this study develops a framework...

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313 Views
17 Pages

Agriculture serves as a vital foundation for national development, and its sustainable development holds significant importance for ensuring national food security. This study analyzes the level of agricultural sustainable development and the couplin...

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349 Views
28 Pages

30 January 2026

Coordinating ecotourism development with economic growth is central to achieving sustainability in regions where natural assets are both a comparative advantage and a binding constraint. This study assesses the ecotourism economy coupling coordinatio...

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3 Citations
1,141 Views
25 Pages

18 March 2025

Under the guidance of high-quality development goals, the energy industry should not only pay attention to the development level but also to the coordination effect among multiple elements. In the process of low-carbon development, natural gas plays...

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  • Open Access
406 Views
23 Pages

1 January 2026

The deep integration of the health industry and the digital economy represents a crucial pathway toward a sustainable and resilient future, as it enhances the competitiveness and promotes the orderly expansion of the health sector. Utilizing provinci...

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26 Citations
4,420 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2021

The interaction between urbanization and the eco-environment is usually viewed as an effect–feedback framework. Its coupling system is composed of urbanization and eco-environment subsystems. In this paper, the coupling degree (CD) and the coupling c...

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4 Citations
1,580 Views
24 Pages

7 December 2024

The coordinated development of urban human settlements and the economy is a crucial indicator for assessing regional development and is essential for achieving sustainable high-quality development. Therefore, urban planning and management need to int...

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1 Citations
1,181 Views
22 Pages

30 June 2025

To promote Chinese-style modernization, we must unremittingly promote the all-round revitalization of the countryside. Industry and agriculture are inseparable. The light industry is a traditionally dominant industry in China and is closely linked to...

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12 Citations
3,192 Views
22 Pages

Coupling Coordination of “Urban Rail Transit—Social Economy” Composite System

  • Zhiheng Wang,
  • Xiaozhao Li,
  • Nikolai Bobylev,
  • Shuchen Li and
  • Jiangfeng Liu

The harmonious development of urban rail transit, underground space engineering, and social economy is the key to regional sustainable development. Based on synergetic theory, this paper constructs the coupling coordination evaluation system of &ldqu...

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7 Citations
1,899 Views
33 Pages

11 December 2024

Urban resilience and urban land use efficiency are inevitable topics in urban planning and development, and the coupling coordination between the two will contribute substantially to urban sustainability. With panel data from 14 cities in Hunan from...

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