Coordinative Development Model of Resource Environment and Socio-Economic Environment and its Application: A Case Study in the Hengdian Town

The process by which the resource environment interacts with the socioeconomic environment is one complex system composed of society, economy, resource and environment. In this process, the resource environment-socioeconomic environment system, as a whole, is a grey system. Based on the analysis of the developmental changes in a specific small town resource environment, and the relationship between the resource environment and the socioeconomic environment, this paper formulates a model of coordinative development within the grey system theory. Taking the Hengdian town-a national sustainable development experimental unit in the Zhejiang province of China as an example, the study concludes that the resource environment and the socioeconomic environment in the Hengdian town showed a trend towards coordinative development between the years 2000 and 2006. This conclusion accords with the actual development status of the Hengdian town, thereby demonstrating the validity of the model.