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12 Citations
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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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8 Citations
2,554 Views
22 Pages

3 March 2023

In China, the metropolitan area is an important spatial carrier to promote high-quality urbanization as well as the coordinated development of large, medium, and small cities and regions. The environment is an important factor affecting the quality o...

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3 Citations
1,785 Views
30 Pages

Coupling Coordination Relationship and Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity between Urbanization and Ecosystem Services in the Songhua River Basin

  • He Bai,
  • Yuanyuan Chen,
  • Shaohan Wang,
  • Rui Chu,
  • Jiyuan Fang,
  • Huina Zhang,
  • Shuhan Xing,
  • Lei Wang and
  • Dawei Xu

27 June 2024

Rapid urbanization in the Songhua River Basin (SRB), a crucial ecological barrier in China and Northeast Asia, has led to the degradation of ecosystem service functions and a decline in their value, thereby posing a significant threat to regional eco...

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24 Citations
3,901 Views
26 Pages

12 May 2022

In the context of accelerated urbanization, constructing resilient cities is an effective approach to tackling risks, such as extreme weather, and various urban challenges. The coupling and coordinated development of urbanization and urban resilience...

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21 Citations
3,600 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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19 Citations
3,674 Views
18 Pages

17 March 2020

On the basis of the coupling coordination degree (CCD) model and information entropy weight method, this study examined the relationship between tourism competitiveness and economic growth of 56 developing countries from 2008 to 2017. The results sho...

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15 Citations
2,968 Views
29 Pages

24 October 2020

In the context of ecological civilization construction (ECC) and energy revolution strategy, there are many studies on ECC or electric power green development (EPGD). However, EPGD and ECC influence each other and are closely related, and there are f...

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13 Citations
2,462 Views
18 Pages

24 April 2023

The high-level coupling coordination relationship between urban development and a city’s water environment carrying capacity is conducive to urban sustainable development. Taking the Chengdu–Chongqing Economic Circle as the research objec...

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25 Citations
3,354 Views
24 Pages

7 September 2022

To accelerate the ecological civilization in the new era and coordinate the region’s ecological economic growth, land-use benefit pre-evaluations and coordination analyses must be carried out. These should be based on a land-use structure layou...

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1 Citations
1,056 Views
23 Pages

9 April 2025

It has long been assumed that population shrinkage signifies a decline, potentially leading to decreases in both economic performance and land use efficiency (LUE). To provide a foundation for understanding the coupling coordination of the human&ndas...

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21 Citations
3,372 Views
12 Pages

8 May 2021

Exploring the dynamic relationship and coupling coordination between urban industrial co-agglomeration and intensive land use is vital to ensure high-quality urban development. Based on an industrial co-agglomeration model, a revised intensive land u...

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38 Citations
4,669 Views
21 Pages

20 April 2022

Agriculture is one of the three major industries in China, and its level of development occupies an important position in the development of the national economy. At present, China vigorously promotes the strategy of rural revitalization, which provi...

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111 Citations
8,259 Views
23 Pages

8 March 2019

The implementation of the Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei coordinated development strategy has seriously increased the influence of land use and urban traffic. Thus, understanding the coordination between urban land and transportation systems is importan...

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2 Citations
1,168 Views
23 Pages

26 February 2025

In the pursuit of sustainable urban development, construction land development (CLD) not only carries the important mission of promoting economic growth but also needs to actively respond to the environmental requirements of reducing carbon emissions...

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8 Citations
3,034 Views
16 Pages

24 March 2022

Coordinating the social, economic, and eco-environmental benefits of construction land use has become the key to the high-quality development of Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomerations (LXUA). Therefore, based on the coupling coordination connotation and...

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6 Citations
1,903 Views
23 Pages

19 July 2024

Urban green infrastructure construction and economic growth are necessary ways and important supports to promote sustainable development. Exploring their coupling coordination relationship is important for achieving high-quality economic development....

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33 Citations
3,951 Views
20 Pages

11 May 2021

With the rapid development of urbanization, coastal cities of China have made significant achievements in economic development. However, the eco-environment of these cities has been under tremendous pressure due to the interference of human activitie...

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5 Citations
2,391 Views
20 Pages

20 May 2023

The harmonious development of human settlement environments (HSEs) and resident demands (RD) contributes to the sustainable development of areas. However, few studies have focused on development-level evaluations and analyses of coupling coordination...

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17 Citations
3,178 Views
16 Pages

2 September 2022

Scientifically diagnosing the spatial conflict of resource-based cities and clarifying the coupling coordination relationship between the intensity of spatial conflict and the dynamic degree of land use is of great significance for the transformation...

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4 Citations
1,931 Views
17 Pages

18 August 2023

There is no doubt that a coupling relationship between leisure tourism and the ecological environment exists, but how to realize their coordinated development on that basis is much less clear. In this paper, taking Xinjiang’s Ili region as the...

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19 Citations
3,216 Views
17 Pages

The relationship between the tourism economy and the ecosystem service value (ESV) is crucial for sustainable regional development. This study takes southern Jiangsu as a research object. Firstly, the development level of the tourism economy and ecos...

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117 Citations
9,780 Views
20 Pages

22 October 2015

China’s high-speed socioeconomic development has been characterized by rapid urbanization and a series of ecological environment issues, especially air pollution. This paper proposed a comprehensive indicator system for the evaluation of urbanization...

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11 Citations
3,590 Views
25 Pages

21 December 2022

Ecological civilization has a significant role in the sustainable development of the regional tourism industry. The high dependence of tourism on ecological civilization contributes to the complex interaction between the two. How to coordinate the re...

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8 Citations
2,030 Views
18 Pages

Resource-based cities face numerous sustainability challenges, making the coupled and coordinated relationship between urbanization and the eco-environment critical for sustainable development strategies. The Loess Plateau is an essential energy base...

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10 Citations
2,446 Views
20 Pages

7 February 2024

Urbanization has a significant negative impact on both the structure and function of ecosystems, as it is a major part of the human-caused transformation of natural landscapes. Concurrently, the attenuation of ecosystem service values (ESVs) poses cr...

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2 Citations
1,777 Views
23 Pages

Investigation of the Coupling and Coordination Relationship of Water–Energy–Food–Ecology and the Driving Mechanism in Dalad Banner

  • Quancheng Zhou,
  • Hanze Tan,
  • Zezhong Zhang,
  • Weijie Zhang,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Jihong Qu,
  • Yingjie Wu,
  • Wenjun Wang,
  • Yong Liu and
  • Kai Feng
  • + 2 authors

19 June 2024

Aiming at the complex problems of water resources, energy, food, and ecology in ten parallel tributaries directly joining the Yellow River in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (the Ten Kongduis), the coordination of the water–energy&...

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8 Citations
2,618 Views
16 Pages

16 November 2022

Sustainable livelihood of farmers is the key to rural revitalization. The purpose of this study was to establish livelihood capital cultivation models suitable for farmers in different agricultural regions and to enhance the sustainability of farmers...

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20 Citations
2,524 Views
19 Pages

14 November 2022

The new urbanization (NU) will lead to changed land use types, affecting the ecological environment and ecosystem service value (ESV). The NU is affected by the ecological environment because of resource scarcity when the ecological environment is da...

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11 Citations
2,705 Views
18 Pages

29 November 2022

China’s key state-owned forest areas are important ecological conservation areas and its forest management belongs to several forest industry groups. Therefore, the ecological improvement and economic development of the key state-owned forest a...

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3,041 Views
21 Pages

17 April 2024

The impact of urbanization is multifaceted, especially in China, the coordinated development between cities and traditional architecture is paramount. Therefore, to further promote the coordinated development between cities and traditional architectu...

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22 Citations
4,480 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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6 Citations
1,422 Views
20 Pages

12 February 2025

In the context of continued global population growth and various environmental challenges, the coordinated protection of water resources, energy, and food security has become increasingly important. This study focuses on the uneven distribution of wa...

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9 Citations
2,407 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2023

Land is multifunctional and includes production, living, and ecological functions (PLEF). Each aspect of PLEF is critical to the stability of human and natural ecosystems, and the balanced coordination of the three is an important guarantee of sustai...

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18 Citations
3,750 Views
19 Pages

24 September 2021

Correctly understanding and handling the relationships in the tea industry–tourism–ecological environment system is a prerequisite and foundation for the high-quality and sustainable development of the tea tourism industry. In this study, an evaluati...

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4 Citations
2,579 Views
23 Pages

26 December 2024

In recent years, China’s population growth rate is slowing, and birth rates are declining. The impact of changes in population size and structure on logistics development has raised important concerns. The coupling coordination between populati...

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1,725 Views
21 Pages

Evaluation Methods for the Human–Land Coupling Coordination Relationship in a Metro Station Area: A Case Study of Chengdu Metro Line 1

  • Zhiyue Qiu,
  • Shirui Wen,
  • Hong Yuan,
  • Ziyi Liu,
  • Yao Wei,
  • Siqi Yanling,
  • Runlong Dai,
  • Xiang Li and
  • Yuxin Gu

At present, more than 200 cities in the world have developed metro systems. Under the agglomeration effect of traffic nodes, rapid population agglomeration and land development and utilization have formed around metro stations in cities. However, the...

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12 Citations
3,306 Views
26 Pages

23 October 2024

Globally, rural tourism development faces challenges such as inadequate infrastructure, insufficient marketing resources, and unreliable service quality, all of which limit its potential. However, digital technology offers unprecedented opportunities...

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12 Citations
2,145 Views
21 Pages

27 March 2024

Exploring the spatio-temporal differentiation characteristics and coupling coordination relationship of the composite ecosystem of urban agglomerations is of great significance for promoting the synergistic sustainable development and integration con...

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47 Citations
4,545 Views
17 Pages

23 May 2021

Determining the coupling development mode and evolution process of the tourism–urbanization–ecological environment system is of great significance in promoting high-quality and sustainable development of tourism and the urban economy. In this study,...

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7 Citations
1,826 Views
26 Pages

8 February 2025

Taking Inner Mongolia as a case, this study systematically analyzes the coupling and coordination relationship between carbon emissions from land use (CELU) and high-quality economic development (HQED). The aim is to provide empirical support and pol...

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25 Citations
3,956 Views
25 Pages

2 February 2023

In the context of rapid urbanization, urban resilience, as a new way of thinking to seek solutions to urban risk crises, has become an important direction and a new development trend in the continued acceleration of urbanization. This study takes the...

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10 Citations
2,774 Views
21 Pages

7 August 2024

Amidst the transition from agriculture to tourism, ethnic villages are facing issues of “misalignment” and “disequilibrium” between economic growth and cultural heritage conservation. Previous research has often isolated the e...

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837 Views
29 Pages

28 September 2025

Against the backdrop of global population growth and intensified resource competition, the sustainable development of the water-energy-food system (WEF) is facing challenges. Wetlands, as key ecological hubs, play a crucial role in regulating water c...

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30 Citations
3,738 Views
25 Pages

China is striving to build a new dual-circulation development pattern with the aim of leading the coupling of science, technology, and innovation through the active role of financial factors, ultimately promoting the country’s optimal economic...

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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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1 Citations
893 Views
21 Pages

1 August 2025

The ongoing advancement of urbanization has significantly amplified its impacts on the water environment. Understanding the coupling relationships between urbanization and the water environment (UAWE) is crucial for Chinese policymakers aiming to pro...

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4 Citations
2,362 Views
27 Pages

Coupling Coordination Relationship and Driving Force Analysis between Gross Ecosystem Product and Regional Economic System in the Qinling Mountains, China

  • Pengtao Wang,
  • Yuxuan Chen,
  • Kang Liu,
  • Xupu Li,
  • Liwei Zhang,
  • Le Chen,
  • Tianjie Shao,
  • Peilin Li,
  • Guoqing Yang and
  • Junping Yan
  • + 2 authors

13 February 2024

As a new concept for systematically evaluating ecosystem services, Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) provides an effective means to comprehensively reveal the overall status of the ecosystem, the impact of economic activities on the ecological environmen...

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19 Citations
4,264 Views
20 Pages

10 February 2022

New-type urbanization is a dynamic process composed of numerous elements and multiple subsystems. Coordination and coherence of various subsystems are critical for promoting urban-rural integration and regional synergistic development and will have a...

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15 Citations
2,826 Views
23 Pages

28 June 2024

Exploring the relationship and driving forces between supply–demand of ecosystem services (ESs) and urbanization can help solve the environmental problems and promote regional sustainable development. This study analyzed the spatio-temporal dis...

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1 Citations
1,644 Views
19 Pages

Research on the Spatiotemporal Coupling Characteristics between Urban Population and Land in China Based on the Improved Coupling Model of Polar Coordinates

  • Yihao Chen,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Qingqing Ye,
  • Weiqiang Chen,
  • Yingchao Li,
  • Enxiang Cai,
  • Xuesong Kong,
  • Long Guo and
  • Jiwei Li

21 July 2024

Scientific quantitative measurement of the coupling relationship between urban population (UP) and urban land (UL) is conducive to promoting intensive land use, coordinated human–land development, and new urbanization development. This research...

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