Journal of Environmental Biology

The development of ecological environment in China based on the system dynamics method from the society, economy and environment perspective 

Yang Guang¹, Song Ge^1,2* and Liu Han³

 ¹College of Resources and Environment of Northeast Agricultural University,Harbin,150030 China

²Northeastern University School of Humanities and Law,Shenyang,110819 China

³Harbin water authority, Harbin,150030

*Corresponding Author E-mail: songgelaoshi@163.com

Publication Data

Paper received:

24 July 2015

Revised received:

27 November 2015??

Accepted:

30 November 2015

Abstract

The harmonious development in society, economy and environment are crucial to regional sustained boom. However, the society, economy and environment are not respectively independent, but both mutually promotes one which, or restrict mutually complex to have the long-enduring overall process. The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship and interaction of society, economy and environment in China based on the data from 2004 to 2013. The principal component analysis (PCA) model was employed to identify the main factors effecting the society, economy and environment subsystems, and SD (system dynamics) method used to carry out dynamic assessment for future state of sustainability from society, economy and environment perspective with future indicator values. Sustainable development in China was divided in the study into three phase from 2004 to 2013 based competitive values of these three subsystems. According to the results of PCA model, China is in third phase, and the economy growth is faster than the environment development, while the social development still maintained a steady and rapid growth, implying that the next step for sustainable development in China should focus on society development, especially the environment development.       

 Key words

Ecological environment, Empirical study, Social-economic-environmental system

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