The evaluation of water's sustainable development
- DOI
- 10.2991/mmme-16.2016.122How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- sustainability; Supply-and-Demand-Matching Model; Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP); Principal Compo-nent Analytic (PCA)
- Abstract
In recent decades, the development of the economy is very fast. However the environment is damaged deep-ly. More and more people put forward the definition of "sustained development" to solve the problem, which is called sustainability. Because the availability of water is a matter of life and death. We focus on the sustain-ability of water resource. In order to measure the level of sustainability of a country's water resource. We es-tablish the Supply-and-Demand-Matching Model to measure i.e. define the indexes of Supply Ability (SA), Demand Level (DL) and Matching Degree (MD), which objectively reflect the water ability. The first two in-dexes (SA and DL) are determined by indicators (17 in total, such as National Rainfall and Agriculture Use ) of two grades, and the third index (MD) is decided by SA and DL. We use two methods in the model, in-cluding Principal Component Analytic (PCA) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).PCA is applied to re-duce dimensions of indicators in the second grade, while AHP is employed to give the weights of indicators in the first grade. Finally, 10 typical countries are selected to evaluate by SA, DL and MD. The results show that our model is reasonable.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Lingyu Huang PY - 2016/10 DA - 2016/10 TI - The evaluation of water's sustainable development BT - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Mechanical Materials and Manufacturing Engineering PB - Atlantis Press SP - 521 EP - 523 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/mmme-16.2016.122 DO - 10.2991/mmme-16.2016.122 ID - Huang2016/10 ER -