ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Huizhou Region’s Ecological Livability
and Influencing Factors Evaluation
Based on Entropy Weight TOPSIS
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Anhui Cultural Tourism Innovative Development Research Institute,Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China
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School of Arts, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China
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Social Innovation Design Research Centre, Anhui University, Hefei 203106, China
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Anhui Institute of Contemporary Studies, Anhui Academy of Social Sciences, Hefei 203106, China
Submission date: 2024-06-13
Final revision date: 2024-07-25
Acceptance date: 2024-08-15
Online publication date: 2025-05-09
Corresponding author
Yanlong Guo
Social Innovation Design Research Centre, Anhui University, Hefei 203106, HEFEI,ANHUI, China
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ABSTRACT
Evaluating ecological livability is to consider the balance between urban development and ecological
sustainability from an ecological perspective. This study takes the ecological environment of seven
counties in the Huizhou region as the object of study and summarizes an ecological livability index
system of evaluation which includes 18 indexes across five criteria: human habitat, resource utilization,
ecological maintenance, pollution treatment, and climatic environment. Using the entropy weight-
TOPSIS method, the study evaluates and analyzes the factors influencing the ecological livability
of each region. The spatio-temporal differentiation characteristics of the region are then analyzed using
ArcMap 10.8 to provide an example for ecological environment maintenance in the Huizhou region.
The following conclusions were obtained: (1) The overall level of urban eco-livability in Huangshan
City, Huizhou region, is low, with a slow downward trend before 2019 and a rapid increase after
2019, with the highest district and county eco-livability scores reaching “general level”. (2) Huizhou’s
ecological livability level is spatially structured around the urban region, with the structural features
of “high in the central area and poor in the periphery” and a tendency to radiate and extend outward
from the center. (3) By comparing the weighting coefficients of the evaluation indicators, it is found that
the four indicators of daily per capita domestic water consumption (C9), green space and plaza land
(C3), annual precipitation (C6), and current year afforestation area (C12) are the main factors influencing
the ecological livability.