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7 Citations
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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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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,695 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
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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  • 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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  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,304 Views
19 Pages

This paper refines the fuzzy logic method, while constructing a theoretical model of the relationship between economic resilience, social resilience and ecological resilience, and evaluates the coupling coordination between the economic-social-ecolog...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,147 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
14 Citations
3,254 Views
26 Pages

18 June 2023

The coupling and coordination of digital economy and urban–rural integration can help narrow the urban–rural gap and help realize comprehensive modernization. Based on the data of 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2020, the index systems...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
3,290 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2019

A high coupling coordination degree of urban land use efficiency promotes sustainable regional economic development. In this study, land use efficiency coupling coordination degrees were calculated for 36 mining cities of western China, with a focus...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,608 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2022

In recent years, the port integration in China has been carried out vigorously, and has basically covered all coastal provinces from south to north and some areas along the Yangtze River. In order to quantify the practical effects of the port integra...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,694 Views
24 Pages

With the rapid development of urbanization, the blind expansion of urban space has led to a series of social problems. In this process, the degree of urban function mixing affects the urbanization development level, making it particularly important t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
448 Views
23 Pages

In the context of advancing agricultural and rural modernization in China, digital agriculture has gained significant governmental attention. However, existing research has predominantly focused on examining the relationship from digital inclusive fi...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,222 Views
22 Pages

15 August 2024

As a typical arid region in China, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is severely constrained by the resource and environmental conditions it faces. In order to promote the balance between regional resource supply and demand and environmental susta...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,778 Views
25 Pages

The rapid economic growth of geoparks has put pressure on their ecological environments. Therefore, to ensure the sustainable development of geoparks, we must explore the coupling relationship between their socioeconomic benefits (SEBs) and eco-envir...

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  • Open Access
84 Citations
6,539 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2020

Production–living–ecological (PLE) space is the basic site of all human activities. The coordinated development of these three spaces is an important prerequisite for achieving sustainable development goals. However, a quantitative assess...

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  • Open Access
814 Views
20 Pages

This study investigates the coupling and coordination mechanisms between virtual and physical spatial heat in coastal internet-famous streets under the influence of social media. Taking Dalian’s coastal internet-famous street as a case study, u...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,174 Views
23 Pages

4 June 2023

While the environmental issues resulting from carbon emissions are widely recognized by the public, there is a lack of in-depth research on whether controlling carbon emissions will have an impact on social development at the national level. In this...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,003 Views
13 Pages

Despite the extensive attention paid to emissions trading scheme (ETS) approaches, few studies have examined whether such ETS policies can lead to sustainable development in China. Drawing on the ideas of coupling and synergistic development, this st...

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  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,819 Views
17 Pages

Tourism and transportation have extremely complex interactions. Tourism developments have expanded demand and stimulated transportation development, which has consequently affected the environment of cities striving towards low-carbon sustainable dev...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,486 Views
18 Pages

11 June 2018

With the socio-economic development in China, the central government pays more and more attention to innovations. Universities, research institutes, and industries (URI) are the main bodies of innovation. Therefore, in order to perform sustainable de...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,817 Views
16 Pages

1 June 2022

Sustainable urban development requires the coordinated development of economic, social, and environmental subsystems. Evaluating the coordination degree of different urban subsystems is of great significance to supporting sustainable urban developmen...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,539 Views
20 Pages

11 April 2023

The interaction between water and land resources (WALRs) has been further enhanced with the development of human production activities. Evaluating the synergetic development (SD) level of WALRs is conducive to discovering the weakness of comprehensiv...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,870 Views
22 Pages

5 July 2024

Under the dual carbon goals, the relationship between land production-living-ecological function and carbon emissions points to a new direction for land spatial planning. This study compiles and analyzes carbon emissions and the production-living-eco...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,119 Views
22 Pages

2 February 2019

Rapid expansion in Mongolia has resulted in an inequality in livelihood, growing air pollution, and unevenly distributed social goods, which implies that the urbanization of Mongolia is experiencing a chronic imbalance. Using 21 Aimags and 1 capital...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,464 Views
26 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Variation and Influencing Factors of the Coupling Coordination Degree of Production-Living-Ecological Space in China

  • Xinghua Cui,
  • Ning Xu,
  • Wanxu Chen,
  • Guanzheng Wang,
  • Jiale Liang,
  • Sipei Pan and
  • Binqiao Duan

Territorial space is a multi-functional complex. The coordinated production-living-ecological space (PLES) effectively coordinates the man-land relationship, promotes regional sustainable development, and maximizes territorial space. How to build a h...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,923 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2023

In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of land system changes and regional sustainable development, it is crucial to explore the spatiotemporal distributions of multiple land use functions (LUFs). Therefore, herein, considering the Yangtze Ri...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,638 Views
14 Pages

17 June 2022

Urban–rural land transition and the coordination of coupled human–environmental systems are two important issues in the process of global urban–rural development. Although existing studies have explored the coupling coordination deg...

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  • Open Access
61 Citations
5,648 Views
23 Pages

Spatiotemporal and Multiscale Analysis of the Coupling Coordination Degree between Economic Development Equality and Eco-Environmental Quality in China from 2001 to 2020

  • Jianwan Ji,
  • Zhanzhong Tang,
  • Weiwei Zhang,
  • Wenliang Liu,
  • Biao Jin,
  • Xu Xi,
  • Futao Wang,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Bing Guo and
  • Zhenqing Wang
  • + 5 authors

4 February 2022

Evaluating and exploring regional eco-environmental quality (EEQ), economic development equality (EDE) and the coupling coordination degree (CCD) at multiple scales is important for realizing regional sustainable development goals. The CCD can reflec...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,148 Views
27 Pages

10 April 2025

The digital economy (DE) and real economy (RE) are dual pillars of the modern economic system. The deep integration of the digital economy and real economy (IDR) has emerged as a pivotal strategic trend. IDR not only can enhance international competi...

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2 Citations
1,264 Views
21 Pages

The strategic coordinated development of land urbanization and carbon emission systems in urban agglomerations is crucial for achieving dual carbon goals and sustainable development. While existing studies emphasize population and economic urbanizati...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,853 Views
25 Pages

Modeling and Evaluating the Socio-Economic–Flood Safety–Ecological System of Landong Floodplain Using System Dynamics and the Weighted Coupling Coordination Degree Model

  • Ming Li,
  • Chaojie Niu,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Liyu Quan,
  • Wenzhong Li,
  • Chengshuai Liu,
  • Chen Shi,
  • Shan-e-hyder Soomro,
  • Qike Song and
  • Caihong Hu

23 August 2024

The lower course of the Yellow River is a “hanging river” across the hinterland of China, and the safety of its flood control measures/systems is closely tied to the stability of the nation. Ensuring high-quality, sustainable development...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,686 Views
15 Pages

1 March 2023

Rapid urbanization often exerts massive pressure on the resources relied upon by the ecological environment. It is necessary to quickly evaluate the interaction and mutual influence between regional urbanization and the ecological environment. This p...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,510 Views
27 Pages

Rapid urbanization and climate extremes expose cities to multi-dimensional risks, necessitating the coordinated development of new urbanization and urban resilience for achieving urban sustainability. While existing studies focus on core economic zon...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,735 Views
20 Pages

21 December 2024

As a form of urban experience tour, cultural visiting routes provide an innovative approach to addressing the fragmentation and isolation of cultural resources in historic districts. This method emphasizes the systematic continuity of cultural spatia...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,838 Views
20 Pages

9 March 2023

The coordinated development among government guidance, industrial innovation and scientific research systems has a profound impact on scientific and technological innovation. By constructing a triple helix evaluation index system covering 3 first-cla...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,738 Views
20 Pages

11 July 2023

Anhui Province is located in the superposition area of the “Strategy of the Rise of Central China” and the “Strategy of Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta”. Analyzing the high-quality development of Anhui Provin...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
872 Views
20 Pages

29 April 2025

The interaction between rural household livelihood strategies and land use behavior constitutes the core of the human–land relationship in a region, especially in protected area villages with high ecological sensitivity that require the integra...

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  • Open Access
907 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2025

The process of social globalization and urbanization has developed rapidly in China, and the tension between economic development and the eco-environment is becoming increasingly tense, posing a major challenge to the sustainable development strategy...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,321 Views
21 Pages

The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is the core region for the security of mineral resources in China and is a strategic water source containing rich water resources. Coordinating the security of mineral resources and water resources in the YREB i...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,244 Views
20 Pages

14 June 2024

The continuous and rapid development of global urbanization has brought great pressure to eco-environments. It is particularly serious in mega urban agglomerations, which determine the development process of urbanization in the world and affect the i...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,574 Views
19 Pages

16 March 2024

Green development is a primary path for ports and cities to achieve a low-carbon transition under the Sustainable Development Goals and a powerful driving force to elevate regional port–city relations to a high level of coordination. In this pa...

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16 Citations
2,890 Views
19 Pages

31 January 2021

Under the background of rapid urbanization, the study explored the adaptive relationship between urban spatial development and water landscape in different stages in Caidian District, Wuhan in order to reveal the characteristics and influencing facto...

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  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,435 Views
18 Pages

With rapid urbanization and industrialization, ecological disorders and environmental degradation have become serious, and the promotion of the coordinated development of the social economy and ecological environment is not only a pressing problem to...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,190 Views
18 Pages

28 April 2023

Improving the coupling coordination degree between water and land resources matching (WLRM) and cultivated land use eco-efficiency (CLUE) is crucial to ensuring national food security and constructing an ecological civilization. This study is based o...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,126 Views
25 Pages

31 August 2022

Located in China’s Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, the Daqing River Basin has a high economic development level. The natural and social conditions within the basin vary greatly, and the spatial configuration of the Production–Li...

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  • Open Access
70 Citations
7,649 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
87 Citations
5,380 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2019

Over the past years, new urbanization in China has accelerated steadily and led to a continuous increase in ecological-environmental (eco-environmental) stress. A deep understanding of the coupling relationship between new urbanization and ecological...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,537 Views
20 Pages

23 August 2024

To understand the current status of water resource utilization and explore the coordination degree of the coupled human–water–ecosystem in the Tarim River Basin, we used the water shortage rates and index of WUE to analyze the dynamic cha...

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  • Open Access
332 Views
24 Pages

19 February 2026

Against the backdrop of significant climate change, resource constraints, and industrial upgrading, optimizing the coupling and coordination of the Water–Energy–Food (WEF) system in Northeast China is crucial for ensuring regional securit...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,010 Views
25 Pages

Ecosystem Health Assessment of the Manas River Basin: Application of the CC-PSR Model Improved by Coupling Coordination Degree

  • Ruiming Xiao,
  • Yuxuan Qiao,
  • Xiaobin Dong,
  • Huize Ren,
  • Xuechao Wang,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Qiaoru Ye and
  • Xiaomin Xiao

22 August 2024

In the context of high-quality development, scientifically and objectively assessing regional ecosystem health (EH) is important for ecological civilization. However, the commonly used EH assessment framework typically neglects intrinsic connections,...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,934 Views
21 Pages

6 December 2023

The inexorable march of technological advancement, particularly within the digital domain, continues to exert a profound influence on global economies, societies, and governance frameworks. This paper delves into the intricate coordination between di...

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