ORIGINAL RESEARCH
What Drives the Fluctuations of “Green”
Development in China’s Agricultural Sector?
An Entropy Method Approach
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Institute of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, Bengbu 233000, China
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Center for Governance Studies, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, 519087, China
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Center for Rural Studies, School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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School of Finance, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, Bengbu 233000, China
Submission date: 2021-11-08
Final revision date: 2022-03-04
Acceptance date: 2022-03-05
Online publication date: 2022-05-31
Publication date: 2022-07-12
Corresponding author
Anli Jiang
Center for Governance Studies, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, No.18 in Jinfeng Road, 519087, Zhuhai, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2022;31(4):3491-3507
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ABSTRACT
The sustainable and coordinated development of agriculture directly associated with the national
economy and social development, and the agriculture development is closely affected by several societal,
economic and environmental effects. Based on the panel data of agricultural production from 2004 to
2015 in China, 21 indicators were selected to construct a five-dimensional index system of sustainable
agricultural green development, including population, society, economy, environment and resources
perspective. Using entropy method and coordination degree method, the spatial-temporal dynamics and
coordination degree of agricultural green development index (AGDI) are explored. The results show that:
sustainable agricultural green development is mostly affected by the sustainability of population system,
followed by the sustainability of environmental system, resource system, economic system and societal
system. In terms of the spatial dimension, it has large differences between different regions. In terms of
the coordination degree of AGDI between the five dimensions, it shows a trend of "continuous decline
and then rising fluctuation" from 2004 to 2015. From the spatial distribution of the coordination degree
between these subsystems, the number of provinces with "coordination" and "comparative coordination"
between the sustainability of each subsystem is increasing, at the same time, the provinces belong
"coordination" and "comparative coordination" are mainly distributed in the central and eastern regions
of China. This paper analyses the spatial-temporal dynamics and coordination degree of AGDI based
on the evidence collected in China, it furthered explores the great significance of the five-dimensional
systems in improving the level of agricultural sustainable development.
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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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