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TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing industrial ecosystem vulnerability in the coal mining area under economic fluctuations
AU - Wang, Delu
AU - Zheng, Jianping
AU - Song, Xuefeng
AU - Ma, Gang
AU - Liu, Yun
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Cleaner Production. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Cleaner Production, 142, 4, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.049
PY - 2017/1/20
Y1 - 2017/1/20
N2 - In the context of the depth adjustment of the global economy and wild fluctuations in energy prices, the vulnerability issue of the coal mining industrial ecosystem (CMIES) has seriously affected the sustainable development of the regional economy. Comparisons of CMIES health status at a regional level are worthy of being conducted. This not only contributes to understanding a particular coal mining area's situation in regards to CMIES vulnerability, but also helps to discover a meaningful benchmark to learn the experiences in terms of action programmes formulation. In this study, based on the analysis of the vulnerability response mechanism of CMIES to economic fluctuations, an initial indicator system for vulnerability assessment of CMIES was constructed. Ultimately, 14 vulnerability-evaluating indicators and their weights were obtained using rough set attribute reduction. Based on a composite CMIES Vulnerability Index (CVI), the Rough Set-Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution-Rank-sum Ratio (RS-TOPSIS-RSR) methodology is proposed to conduct the CMIES vulnerability assessment process from an overall perspective. Using this methodology, 33 coal mining areas in China are ranked as well as grouped into three specific groups based on the CVI score. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method as a valuable tool for decision making and performance evaluation with multiple alternatives and criteria.
AB - In the context of the depth adjustment of the global economy and wild fluctuations in energy prices, the vulnerability issue of the coal mining industrial ecosystem (CMIES) has seriously affected the sustainable development of the regional economy. Comparisons of CMIES health status at a regional level are worthy of being conducted. This not only contributes to understanding a particular coal mining area's situation in regards to CMIES vulnerability, but also helps to discover a meaningful benchmark to learn the experiences in terms of action programmes formulation. In this study, based on the analysis of the vulnerability response mechanism of CMIES to economic fluctuations, an initial indicator system for vulnerability assessment of CMIES was constructed. Ultimately, 14 vulnerability-evaluating indicators and their weights were obtained using rough set attribute reduction. Based on a composite CMIES Vulnerability Index (CVI), the Rough Set-Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution-Rank-sum Ratio (RS-TOPSIS-RSR) methodology is proposed to conduct the CMIES vulnerability assessment process from an overall perspective. Using this methodology, 33 coal mining areas in China are ranked as well as grouped into three specific groups based on the CVI score. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method as a valuable tool for decision making and performance evaluation with multiple alternatives and criteria.
KW - Industrial ecosystem
KW - Vulnerability
KW - Composite index
KW - Integrated assessment
KW - Coal mining area
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.049
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.049
M3 - Journal article
VL - 142
SP - 4019
EP - 4031
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
SN - 0959-6526
IS - 4
ER -