Harmonious Development between Socio-Economy and River-Lake Water Systems in Xiangyang City, China

Zuo, Qiting; Luo, Zhaohua; Ding, Xiangyi

doi:10.3390/w8110509

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“…With further improvements to national standards for water environment health, treatment of the urban water environment has become an important aspect of the government's work (Moore, 2019; An et al , 2018). Developing the urban water environment service industry, strengthening protections and efficient use of water resources, and exploiting renewable water are of considerable significance to the health, social harmony, and sustainable economic development of urban residents (Sletto et al , 2019; Wang et al , 2018a; Zuo et al , 2016). The “Water pollution control action plan” which was deliberated and passed in 2015, pointed out that urban water environment treatment should ensure the safety of the water eco-environment, protect the water ecosystem, and strengthen the ecological construction.…”

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Public satisfaction evaluation of urban water environment treatment public-private partnership project

Wang

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IJBPA

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PurposeThe Public–Private Partnership (PPP) mode has been widely used in the urban water environment treatment project (UWETP). The public is the direct perceiver of urban water environment treatment PPP project (UWETP-PPP), and their satisfaction with it can reflect the project's success to some extent. The purpose of this paper is to provide operational management strategies for special-purpose vehicle (SPV) company through public satisfaction evaluation of UWETP-PPP.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire was designed through the literature review and experts' opinions that consisted of 33 indexes to investigate public satisfaction with UWETP-PPP. Then, the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to confirm the evaluation index system of public satisfaction. Next, the weights of the indexes were calculated by the normalized mean method and fuzzy synthetic evaluation (FSE) was applied to evaluate public satisfaction with UWETP-PPP. Finally, the importance-performance analysis (IPA) was used to suggest improvement strategies of public satisfaction with UWETP-PPP.FindingsThe factors affecting public satisfaction with UWETP-PPP are preliminarily determined, and an evaluation model that provides a specific basis for evaluating public satisfaction with UWETP-PPP in the future is constructed. Furthermore, some strategies and suggestions to improve the performance level of UWETP-PPP are put forward.Research limitations/implicationsFirst, the factors influencing public satisfaction with UWETP-PPP are numerous and complex. The factors discussed in this study may be further refined to make the research more reliable and effective. Second, the sample from this study can be expanded to multiple projects, so as to make the study more general. Finally, given that the influencing factors in the paper were elicited by using scores obtained through a questionnaire survey, it would bring bias to the result to some extent. The evaluation method can be further improved, such as combining with interval intuitionistic fuzzy evaluation.Practical implicationsIn the context of the characteristics of PPP projects in water environment treatment and the huge demand of the country to apply PPP model in the territory of water environment treatment, this study evaluated the public satisfaction with UWETP-PPP in Xuchang City, China. The result provided a beneficial reference for the private organizations to take appropriate actions to improve the public satisfaction level of UWETP-PPP, so as to improve the performance level of SPV. It also provided a system of public satisfaction evaluation with UWETP-PPP, which can be considered as the standard of public satisfaction survey, thus improving the comprehensiveness of the UWETP-PPP performance evaluation system and the government regulatory capacity, thus affecting the sustainable development of UWETP-PPP.Social implicationsIn addition, the research results provide a useful reference for the public organizations to issue a UWETP-PPP regulation rule, review a UWETP-PPP design plan, and conduct new similar project decision-making. In summary, the study results not only serve as a good reference for the evaluation of public satisfaction of eco-environmental PPP projects, but also have essential application value for improving the service level, performance improvement and operational management of the SPV.Originality/valueThe research results of this paper have certain wide-spread value, and the research framework and research method can be applied to other infrastructure section, such as transportation, stadium et al.

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“…All these methods show unique advantages and shortcomings, and while some are simple and easy to calculate, others are computationally complex. The method of "single index quantification-multiple indices syntheses-poly-criteria integration" (SMI-P) proposed by Zuo [29] has been widely used in China within water resource and water quality assessment and management, and is based on the Human-Water Harmony theory [13,22,[51][52][53]. A reasonable assessment index system can be established by analyzing the relationships between the indicators and dimensions and between the dimensions and the final target.…”

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Assessment of the Happy River Index as an Integrated Index of River Health and Human Well-Being: A Case Study of the Yellow River, China

Zuo

Hao

Zhang

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Acceleration urbanization and industrialization has resulted in challenges such as river ecosystem degradation and water scarcity that have hindered sustainable development in China. Healthy rivers provide ecosystem services that improve human well-being. The Happy River Index (HRI) integrates trends in river health and human well-being. This study aimed to establish an HRI assessment framework. The assessment framework was applied to the Yellow River, China at three spatial scales in which the analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-entropy weight and single index quantification-multiple indices syntheses-poly-criteria integration (SMI-P) methods were utilized. Limiting factors were diagnosed by the obstacle degree model and approaches to improve the HRI in regions along the Yellow River are suggested. The results showed that: (1) the overall HRI of the Yellow River was relatively low, with some differences among different regions; (2) the HRI for the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Yellow River showed a decreasing trend from 0.77 to 0.65; (3) Sichuan had the highest HRI at the regional scale, followed by Gansu and Qinghai, whereas Inner Mongolia had the lowest; (4) scarcity of water resources and the fragility of the ecological environment were the two dominant factors restricting the improvement of the HRI in regions along the Yellow River. The results of this study can provide a valuable reference for protection of river health and improvement of human well-being in China.

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“…(Jing et al 2000;He et al 2011) that are helps for scientific and rational utilization to get more effective evaluation results (Liu and Zou 2012). Based on fuzzy membership function, multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) like fuzzy matter element method (FME) for scientific and comprehensive decision making, combining grey relational analysis method (GRA) for theoretical explanation of uncertain information and incomplete data samples (Chiang and Hsieh 2009), harmony degree evaluation method (HDE) for the analysis of dynamic equilibrium in between HSDs and river ecosystem integrity (Zuo et al 2016;Luo et al 2018), were successively used for achieving the different goals i.e. analysis the overall performance of every attributes under river health, integration between river health and water resources management, and comparison and validation amongst the model (Sadat et al 2019).…”

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Evaluating the Multifunctional Resilience of River Health to Human Service Demand: A Comparison among Fuzzy Logic, Entropy and AHP Based MCDM Models

Bhattacharya

Chatterjee

Das

2021

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Ecosystem services of river for human beings are guided by harmonious relationship; however over growing human service demands (HSDs) are leading to deteriorate the river health connotation. In this study, an assessment index system of monsoonal quarried river health including twenty indicators consisting of riparian, morphological, hydroecological and social structure were established to detect the multifunctional threshold of river system integrity in respect to HSDs at upper (US), middle (MS), lower segments (LS) of Kangsabati River using fuzzy logic, AHP and entropy based multi-criteria decision matrix (MCDM) methods i.e. vlseKriterijumska optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR), simple additive weighing (SAW), complex proportion assessment of alternatives (COPRAS), weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS), technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). The results revealed that overall indicators performance is generally healthy in MS, medium health level in US but mostly unhealthy in LS; and AHP and fuzzy MCDM methods assigned as high priority rank to MS, medium rank to US and least rank to LS, while entropy MCDM methods gives highest rank to US, medium rank to MS and least rank to LS, respectively. According to model validation performances, fuzzy and AHP MCDM methods are signified to HSDs, and results are closer to real problems, whereas entropy MCDM methods are rationalized to harmonic relationship of riverine system. With the acceptability of AHP SAW and WASPASS, it can be concluded that over HSDs is main culprit for river health degradation, and research results are identified the sick sites for ecological restoration.

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Harmonious Development between Socio-Economy and River-Lake Water Systems in Xiangyang City, China

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

Public satisfaction evaluation of urban water environment treatment public-private partnership project

Public satisfaction evaluation of urban water environment treatment public-private partnership project

Assessment of the Happy River Index as an Integrated Index of River Health and Human Well-Being: A Case Study of the Yellow River, China

Evaluating the Multifunctional Resilience of River Health to Human Service Demand: A Comparison among Fuzzy Logic, Entropy and AHP Based MCDM Models

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