Ecological Vulnerability Evaluation in West China: Evaluate Vulnerability and Its Synergy Degree with Government Performance

Huping Shang; Qingying Han; Yan Li

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Huping Shang ¹, Qingying Han ², Yan Li ³ ^*

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¹ School of Political Science and Public Administration, Soochow University, Suzhou, CHINA PR² Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin CHINA PR³ The Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, CHINA PR^* Corresponding Author

This article belongs to the special issue "Problems of Application Analysis in Knowledge Management and Science-Mathematics-Education".

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In this paper, a developed PSR model based on Chinese context is established to deal with the ecological vulnerabilities in western China. Judged by the model, we find that the essential way to pre-control the vulnerabilities is to evaluate it. Then a pre-control concept model is developed to evaluate and intervene the vulnerabilities. To carry out the pre-control model, we could use a series of evaluation equations to measure the single vulnerabilities, overall vulnerabilities, vulnerability changing trends, and the synergy degrees between the western ecological vulnerabilities and the performances of the local governments. Under the guidance of the evaluation results, the local governments and other organizations could choose the proper pre-control measures from the strategy matrix to respond to varied ecological vulnerabilities.

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western China
ecological vulnerability
evaluation
local government performance
pre-control

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 13, Issue 12, December 2017, 7743-7754

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Shang, H., Han, Q., & Li, Y. (2017). Ecological Vulnerability Evaluation in West China: Evaluate Vulnerability and Its Synergy Degree with Government Performance. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 13(12), 7743-7754. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77938

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Shang H, Han Q, Li Y. Ecological Vulnerability Evaluation in West China: Evaluate Vulnerability and Its Synergy Degree with Government Performance. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2017;13(12):7743-54. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77938

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Shang H, Han Q, Li Y. Ecological Vulnerability Evaluation in West China: Evaluate Vulnerability and Its Synergy Degree with Government Performance. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2017;13(12), 7743-7754. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77938

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Shang, Huping, Qingying Han, and Yan Li. "Ecological Vulnerability Evaluation in West China: Evaluate Vulnerability and Its Synergy Degree with Government Performance". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2017 13 no. 12 (2017): 7743-7754. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77938

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Shang, H., Han, Q., and Li, Y. (2017). Ecological Vulnerability Evaluation in West China: Evaluate Vulnerability and Its Synergy Degree with Government Performance. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 13(12), pp. 7743-7754. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77938

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Shang, Huping et al. "Ecological Vulnerability Evaluation in West China: Evaluate Vulnerability and Its Synergy Degree with Government Performance". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 13, no. 12, 2017, pp. 7743-7754. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77938