Authors:
Peng Wang
1
;
Xia Lin
2
and
Kai Jia
2
Affiliations:
1
Southeast University, China
;
2
National Marine Environment Monitoring Center, China
Keyword(s):
Liaoning Province, Coastal Zone, Sea Enclosure and Reclamation, Capacity of Sustainable Development.
Abstract:
By collecting and collating related information of coastal sea enclosure and reclamation activities of Liaoning province, this article did trend study on changes of coastal sea enclosure and reclamation activities over years
and environmental impact of Liaoning Province. The study showed that from 1990 to 2009, the area of sea enclosure and reclamation in Liaoning Province had increased year by year, natural shoreline diminished with
the sea enclosure and reclamation activities year by year, total area of major bay decreased 18.4%. This article did the quantitative evaluation of six coastal cities’ sustainable development level in Liaoning, result showed
generally poor sustainable development capacity of Liaoning coastal areas and mean evaluation score of regional sustainability was 0.49, was non- sustainable development. Scores of Huludao City and Dalian City were greater than 0.6, on basic level of sustainable development; score of Yingkou was greater than 0.5 and less than 0.6, on
low level of sustainable development; scores of Panjin, Dandong, Jinzhou were less than 0.5, belonged to the level of non-sustainable development basically.
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