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The Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Spatial Linkages of the Coupling Coordination Between Economic Development and Ecological Resilience in the Guizhou Central Urban Agglomeration

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Exploring the spatiotemporal characteristics and spatial correlation structure of the coupling and coordination relationship between urban economic development and ecological resilience is of great significance for optimizing the regional coordinated development strategies of urban agglomerations and building high-quality economic development regions. Taking 33 counties (cities, districts) in the Qianzhong Urban Agglomeration as the research objects, this study adopts the analytical paradigm of “mechanism exploration—level measurement—relationship evolution—spatial correlation”, expands and constructs a four-dimensional ecological resilience evaluation index system based on the “risk resistance—adaptation—recovery” framework, and systematically analyzes the spatiotemporal dynamics and spatial correlation characteristics of the coupling and coordination between economic development and ecological resilience from 2005 to 2020 by combining the coupling coordination model, trend surface analysis, and spatial gravity model. The research results show that the overall coupling coordination degree between economic development and ecological resilience in the Qianzhong Urban Agglomeration presents an upward trend, and the key to optimizing the coupling coordination lies in improving the level of urban economic development. The spatial correlation of regional coupling coordination degree is increasingly close, and its spatial connection structure shows the characteristics of “core polarization, edge collapse and multi-center germination”. The research results provide important enlightenment for formulating differentiated sustainable development strategies for urban agglomerations in ecologically fragile areas.

Source: Systems

DOI: 10.3390/systems13090776

Authors: Zhi Liu, Jiayi Zhao, Bo Chen, Yongli Yao, Min Zhao

Institutions: Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry

Language: English

Topic: Regional Development and Environment

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,896