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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Stability Evaluation and Spatial-Temporal
Evolution of Regional Economic-Energy-
Environment System in the Context of Carbon
Neutrality: A Case Study in East China
1
North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China
2
China Huaneng Group, Ltd., Beijing, China
Submission date: 2024-01-15
Final revision date: 2024-03-16
Acceptance date: 2024-04-27
Online publication date: 2024-09-02
Publication date: 2025-01-28
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(3):2197-2212
KEYWORDS
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
With the proposal of China’s dual-carbon goal, the contradiction between regional economic
development, energy consumption, and environmental governance is increasingly acute, and the stability
of the economy-energy-environment (3E) system is increasingly prominent, which is an inevitable
choice to effectively promote the green and low-carbon transformation of China’s economy. Based on
the stability of the 3E system, an index system was constructed from three dimensions: availability
of the energy-resource system, coordination of the energy-economic system, and sustainability of the
energy-ecosystem. Based on the principal component analysis and mature-element extension evaluation
model, the stability and spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of the 3E system in East China were
systematically evaluated. The results show that, firstly, from the spatial dimension, the coordination
degree of the energy economic system is good in the economically developed A region, while the
energy utilization efficiency is low in the economically less developed B region, and the sustainability
of the energy ecosystem is relatively poor. Secondly, in terms of time dimension, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and
Shandong are the regions with rising fluctuations, Shanghai and Anhui are the regions with decreasing
fluctuations, and Zhejiang and Fujian are the regions with relatively stable fluctuations, which is
conducive to realizing the common vision of regional green and low-carbon development, breaking the
geographical and information gap between provinces, and gradually forming a community of 3E system
coupling and coordinated development.
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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