Pouring money into high-tech innovation is currently the biggest reason coastal areas are becoming so environmentally fragile.
While global policy promotes 'innovation' as the key to a greener future, this analysis found that innovation investment and industrial upgrades are actually making ecological environments less resilient to shocks, while basic economic development is the only factor improving resilience.
Drivers of Ecological Environment Resilience in China's Coastal Areas
SSRN · 6465041
Scientifically measuring the ecological environment resilience and identifying its drivers is essential for advancing ecological protection and governance. This paper employs the Resistance-Adaptability-Restoration-Transformation (RART) framework to construct an index system of ecological environment resilience. The Entropy Weight–Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method is applied to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution of ecological environment resilience