PMID- 28988093
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180316
LR  - 20180316
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 615
DP  - 2018 Feb 15
TI  - A methodological framework for coastal development assessment: A case study of 
      Fujian Province, China.
PG  - 572-580
LID - S0048-9697(17)32660-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.309 [doi]
AB  - Decision-makers often have to make trade-offs between economic growth and 
      environmental conservation when developing and managing coastal environments. 
      Coastal development and management need to be subject to rigorous assessments to 
      determine if they are sustainable over time. We propose a methodological 
      framework - the Coastal Development Index (CDI) for the assessment of the changes 
      in sustainability of coastal development over time. CDI is a modified version of 
      the Ocean Health Index (OHI) but with two new indicators - ecological and 
      environmental indicators (EEI), and social and economic indicators (SEI), both of 
      which comprise three sub-indicators (coastal protection, clean waters and species 
      protection for EEI, and food provision, coastal livelihoods and economies and 
      tourism and recreation for SEI). The six sub-indicators represent key aspects of 
      coastal development and the level of exploitation of natural resources that have 
      previously been missing in other conceptual frameworks. We demonstrate the value 
      of CDI with a detailed case study of Fujian Province in China, 2000-2013. The 
      scores of CDI decreased from 1.01 in 2000 to 0.42 in 2013 suggesting that the 
      Fujian coastal zone has experienced unsustainable development in that time. 
      Meanwhile, the scores of EEI decreased from 22.1 to 20.4 while the scores of SEI 
      increased from 21.9 to 48.1 suggesting that environmental values have been eroded 
      by economic growth. Analysis of the scores of sub-indicators reveals a need to 
      integrate economic growth and social development with environmental conservation 
      on Fujian coastal management. Our case study highlights the potential value of 
      the CDI for improving the ecological sustainability of coastal zone management 
      and development practices.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Tian, Haiyan
AU  - Tian H
AD  - College of the Environment & Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China; 
      Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, 
      Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
FAU - Lindenmayer, David B
AU  - Lindenmayer DB
AD  - Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, 
      Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
FAU - Wong, Gabriel T W
AU  - Wong GTW
AD  - ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, The Australian National University, 
      Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
FAU - Mao, Zhu
AU  - Mao Z
AD  - Coastal and Ocean Management Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China.
FAU - Huang, Yi
AU  - Huang Y
AD  - Coastal and Ocean Management Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China.
FAU - Xue, Xiongzhi
AU  - Xue X
AD  - College of the Environment & Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China; 
      Coastal and Ocean Management Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China. 
      Electronic address: xzxue@xmu.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20171006
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Coastal development index (CDI)
OT  - Ecologically sustainable development
OT  - Economic growth
OT  - Environmental conservation
OT  - Ocean health index (OHI)
EDAT- 2017/10/11 06:00
MHDA- 2017/10/11 06:01
CRDT- 2017/10/09 06:00
PHST- 2017/04/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/09/28 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/09/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/10/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/10/11 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2017/10/09 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(17)32660-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.309 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2018 Feb 15;615:572-580. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.309. 
      Epub 2017 Oct 6.