Regional Assessment of Eco-environmental Vulnerability Based on GIS A Case Study of Hubei Province, China

Author

Li, Lu ; Shi, Zhihua ; Zhu, Dun ; Cai, Chongfa ; Wang, Tianwei

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Subtropical Agric. & Environ. of Minist. of Agric., Huazhong Agric. Univ., Wuhan, China

Volume

1

fYear

2009

fDate

4-5 July 2009

Firstpage

175

Lastpage

178

Abstract

The regional eco-environment quality is the base of the sustainable development. This paper developed an eco-environmental vulnerability evaluation model using spatial principle component analysis (SPCA) and eco-environment vulnerability index method. This method was carried out in a case study of Hubei Province, China. The vulnerability was classified into six levels: potential, slight, light, medial, heavy, and extreme level. The results showed that the majority of Hubei Province was at slight, light or medial vulnerable level and the environmental vulnerability was increased from south to north.

Keywords

ecology; environmental management; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; principal component analysis; China; Hubei Province; eco-environment vulnerability index method; eco-environmental vulnerability assessment; eco-environmental vulnerability evaluation model; geographic information systems; medial vulnerable level; spatial principle component analysis; sustainable development; Agriculture; Geographic Information Systems; Humans; Numerical models; Principal component analysis; Remote sensing; Reservoirs; Rivers; Soil; Sustainable development; GIS; Hubei Province; SPAC; eco-environment vulnerability; regional assessment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmental Science and Information Application Technology, 2009. ESIAT 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3682-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESIAT.2009.420

Filename

5200092