Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Environmental Science and Information Application Technology, 2009. ESIAT 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3682-8
DOI :
10.1109/ESIAT.2009.420
