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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Spatiotemporal Evolution of and Regional
Disparities in Coupling Coordination
between Economic Development Quality
and Urban Ecological Resilience
in the Yangtze River Economic Belt
1
School of Geography and Environmental Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
2
School of Ecological Engineering, Guizhou University of Engineering Science, Bijie 551700, China
Submission date: 2024-01-26
Final revision date: 2024-04-29
Acceptance date: 2024-07-09
Online publication date: 2025-01-15
Publication date: 2025-07-05
Corresponding author
Xudong Li
School of Geography and Environmental Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
School of Geography and Environmental Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(5):5039-5055
KEYWORDS
economic development qualityurban ecological resiliencecoupling coordinationspatiotemporal evolutionregional disparitiesYangtze river economic belt
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Good economic progress and the coordinated development of urban ecological resilience are
essential for achieving ecological protection and high-quality development. This study uses 2011-2021
panel data on 110 Yangtze River Economic Belt cities and employs an entropy-weighted technique for
order of preference by similarity to an ideal solution, coupled coordination degree model, and kernel
density estimation to determine spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of and regional differences
in the coupled coordination relationship between economic development quality and urban ecological
resilience. Results reveal (1) a close relationship between the two, whose degree of coupled coordination
increases yearly, continuously narrowing the disparity in urban coordinated development. (2) The
coupled coordination types change from imbalance and decline to the dominance of coordinated
development, exhibiting a stepwise spatial pattern of “downstream>midstream>upstream.” Spatial
agglomeration is evident, forming a clustering characteristic predominantly led by high–high
agglomeration areas downstream and low–low agglomeration areas upstream. (3) The most pronounced
differences are observed upstream, and coupling coordination differs most prominently between the
upstream and downstream regions. The study concluded that interregional disparities are the primary
factors influencing the spatial differences in the coupling coordination level. The findings provide
scientific theoretical support for future urban planning and national strategies.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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