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| STUDY ON THE ECONOMY-ENVIRONMENT COORDINATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND ITS MECHANISM BASED ON GINI COEFFICIENT |
| LI Ming-sheng1, TONG Lian-jun2, LI Zhi3, QIU Fang-dao4 |
1. China National Environmental Monitoring Centre, Beijing 100012, China;
2. Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130012, China;
3. School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China;
4. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Xuzhou Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China |
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Abstract The coordinative development between economy and environment is viewed as an important way to realize regional sustainable development. In this paper, economic-environment Gini coefficient was suggested by extending Gini coefficient connotation to explore the economic-environment coordinative development rule and analyze their mechanism in China. In order to evaluate the eigenvalue of economic system and environmental system, two comprehensive appraisal indices systems, including 60 basal indices, were established. At last, economic-environment Gini coefficient, which was namely the coordinative degree between economy and environment in this article, was calculated. And through analyzing the coordinative degree, we could attain the coordinative mechanism in the development of economy and environment. The results reveal that the economic-environment coordinative degree from 1996 to 2006 has undergone a first downward then upward "U" curve. The economic-environment coordinative development process receives greater influence from economic development. The economic development factors contribute more to the coordinative degree than the economic scalar factors while the pollutants related factors among the environmental factors contribute more.Economy has played an important role in the coordinative development between economy and environment. In most provinces in East China, environmental construction develops rapidly backed by the powerful economic strength. The article made an attempt at the quantitative analysis of coordinative development mechanism. The method could be used for references of similar researches and the results could be references for regional sustainable development.
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Received: 20 April 2008
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2009, Vol. 24 
