Creation and validation of a socioeconomic development index: A case study on the countries in the Belt and Road Initiative

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120634

	Creation and validation of a socioeconomic development index: A case study on the countries in the Belt and Road Initiative
	You, Zhen; Shi, Hui; Feng, Zhiming; Yang, Yanzhao
刊名	JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
	2020-06-10
卷号	258 页码:10
关键词	Socioeconomic development Human development Urbanization Accessibility Belt and road initiative
ISSN号	0959-6526
DOI	10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120634
通讯作者	Feng, Zhiming(fengzm@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	The assessment of socioeconomic development is of great significance as it can help governments objectively and comprehensively understand the status of national socioeconomic development and identify gaps, thereby informing policymaking. In this study, three types of data (statistical, geographic, and remote sensing data) were combined to establish a socioeconomic development index (SDI) that considers human living standards, urbanization, and transportation infrastructure to provide a comprehensive assessment of socioeconomic development status. Considering the uneven and rapid development in the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), these countries were selected as the focus of a case study to validate the new index. SDI was used to classify the level of socioeconomic development in each BRI region, and the performance of each of the three SDI sub-indices for predicting socioeconomic development status was evaluated through linear regression. The results indicate that human development, urbanization, and transportation accessibility showed spatial heterogeneity in the BRI regions, with urbanization index having a particularly heterogeneous distribution. Out of the total BRI area, over one quarter was classified as having a low level of socioeconomic development, approximately 55% had an intermediate level of socioeconomic development, and one-fifth had a high level of socioeconomic development. In three quarters of the BRI, socioeconomic development was mainly restricted by slow modernization. In one-fifth of BRI regions, socioeconomic development was primarily restricted by inadequate transportation infrastructure. Socioeconomic development was mainly limited by low levels of human development in only eight countries. The contributions of human development, urbanization, and transportation accessibility differed among the regions with different levels of socioeconomic development. Human development was the best predictor of socioeconomic development in regions with low levels of socioeconomic development, whereas urbanization and transportation accessibility were more important in regions with relatively high levels of socioeconomic development. Finally, several policy recommendations were suggested based on the above results. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA20010203] ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program[2019QZKK1006]
WOS关键词	ECONOMIC WELFARE ISEW
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000525323600047
资助机构	Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/133922]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Feng, Zhiming
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	You, Zhen,Shi, Hui,Feng, Zhiming,et al. Creation and validation of a socioeconomic development index: A case study on the countries in the Belt and Road Initiative[J]. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION,2020,258:10.
APA	You, Zhen,Shi, Hui,Feng, Zhiming,&Yang, Yanzhao.(2020).Creation and validation of a socioeconomic development index: A case study on the countries in the Belt and Road Initiative.JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION,258,10.
MLA	You, Zhen,et al."Creation and validation of a socioeconomic development index: A case study on the countries in the Belt and Road Initiative".JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION 258(2020):10.