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Arid Land Geography ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (2): 343-355.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.158

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Spatiotemporal evolution of the coordinated development of regional social-ecological system resilience: A case study of Shaanxi Province

HUANG Jiao1,2(), CHEN Hai1,2(), WANG Jiayu1,2, BAI Xiaojuan1,2   

  1. 1. College of Urban and Environmental Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, Shaanxi, China
    2. Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface System and Environmental Carrying Capacity, Xi’an 710127, Shaanxi, China
  • Received:2023-04-08 Revised:2023-05-26 Online:2024-02-25 Published:2024-03-14
  • Contact: CHEN Hai E-mail:huangjiao@stumail.nwu.edu.cn;chw@nwu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Driven by multiple factors such as population growth, resource development, and urbanization, resilience provides a new research perspective for the sustainable development of regional social-ecological systems. To clarify the trend of the coordinated development of the social-ecological system in Shaanxi Province, northwest China from the perspective of resilience and provide theoretical support for the sustainable development of the regional social-ecological system based on the three subsystems of society, economy, and ecology, comprehensively considering the vulnerability and coping capacity of the system, a resilience evaluation index system was constructed. The social-ecological system resilience of 107 county-level administrative units in Shaanxi Province was measured using set-pair analysis. According to the results of the resilience measurement, the coupling coordination degree model was used to analyze the coordinated development degree of binary (social-economic, social-ecological, and economic-ecological) and ternary (social-economic-ecological) subsystems. The spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of the coordinated development degree of the subsystems from 2000 to 2020 were revealed at the regional level. The bivariate spatial autocorrelation model was introduced to further explore the quantitative and spatial correlation characteristics of the coordinated development degree changes in the binary and ternary subsystems. The results showed the following: (1) During the study period, the social and economic resilience of Shaanxi Province increased significantly, ecological resilience showed a weak downward trend, and social-ecological system resilience increased from 0.303 to 0.779. (2) The coordinated development degree of the subsystems showed an upward trend; the coordinated development degree of the social-economic subsystem increased from 0.422 to 0.823, and the difference between the high in the south and low in the north weakened. The coordinated development degree of social-ecological and economical-ecological subsystems increased from 0.471 and 0.394 to 0.714 and 0.727, respectively. These two types of binary subsystems formed a coordinated development pattern of low in the middle and high in the north and south, respectively. The coordinated development degree of social-economic-ecological subsystem increased from 0.424 to 0.755 and generally maintained the spatial distribution characteristics of high in the south and low in the north. (3) The changes in the coordinated development of the social-economic, social-ecological, and economic-ecological subsystems were positively correlated with the change in the coordinated development of the social-economic-ecological subsystem in quantity and space. There were obvious spatial agglomeration characteristics in the coordinated development degree changes of the three types of binary and ternary subsystems. The positive correlation of high-high and low-low type evaluation units was mainly distributed in the northern and middle parts of Shaanxi Province, whereas the correlation was not significant in the southern part; the evaluation units with agglomeration characteristics were scattered.

Key words: social-ecological system resilience, coordinated development, bivariate correlation, Shaanxi Province