Assessment of coastal sustainable development along the maritime silk road using an integrated natural-economic-social (NES) ecosystem.

ABSTRACT: Understanding spatial change and its driving factors behind coastal development is essential for coastal management and restoration. There is an urgent need for quantitative assessments of sustainable development in the coastal ecosystems that are most affected by anthropogenic activities and climate change. This study built a theme-based evaluation methodology with the Natural-Economic-Social (NES) complex ecosystem and proposed an evaluation system of coastal sustainable development (CSD) to understand the complex interactions between coastal ecosystems and anthropogenic activities. The approach revealed the levels of coastal natural, economic, and social sustainable development in the countries along the Maritime Silk Road (MSR) from 2010 to 2020. The results showed (1) a decreasing tre

SUBMITTER: Zuo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10329136 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature