Journal
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 120, Issue -, Pages 39-48Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.11.011
Keywords
Integrated carrying capacity; Set pair analysis; Prediction analysis; Entergy method; Principal component
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- National Marine Public Scientific Research Fund Project of China [200805080, 201505008]
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As a comprehensive capacity of nature, society and humans, integrated carrying capacity (ICC) is the driving force of regional socioeconomic development. Only when an ecosystem is under-loaded can socioeconomic development be sustainable. ICC is an accumulative total value of each indicator's carrying capacity, which reflects a static status. The ICC prediction analysis is one prerequisite to making economic development plans. In this paper, a dynamic prediction model is developed by using the model of set pair analysis (SPA) to predict the growth tendency of ICC. The model is tested in a case comprising eight coastal cities in Yangtze. (1) The average error rate of this prediction model is merely 0.38%, and the lowest error rate is 0.01%. The SPA model is better to predict ICC tendencies. (2) According to the national development plan, the eight cities' ICC is predicted in 2015. (3) The prediction model is a multiple method that can contain all indicators of ICC. This model can estimate the maximal carrying capacity of a natural ecosystem to make the most suitable economic development policy. The socioeconomic development must comply with the under-loaded capacity to maintain sustainable development. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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