Table 1 Indicator system and weighting values of Huaihe ecological economic belt.

From: Spatiotemporal characteristics and influential factors of coupling coordination degree of urbanization and ecological environment in the Huaihe River ecological economic belt

System layer

Rule layer

Basic-level index

Property

Weighting values

Index system for urbanization

Population urbanization

Population density in urban areas (person/km2)

+

0.035

Urban population (%)

+

0.066

Share of employment of tertiary industry (%)

+

0.013

natural growth rate of population (‰)

+

0.026

Economic urbanization

GDP per capita (USD)

+

0.093

Proportion of tertiary industry in GDP (%)

+

0.044

GDP (USD)

+

0.085

Engel coefficient of urban residents (%)

-

0.026

urban per capita disposable income (USD)

+

0.055

Spatial urbanization

Area of public green area (ha)

+

0.077

Urban road area per capita (m2)

+

0.044

Urban built-up area (km2)

+

0.070

Social urbanization

Urban residential housing area per capita (m2)

+

0.044

Number of mobile phone subscriber devices per 1000 population

+

0.030

Number of beds in medical institutions

+

0.073

Number of vehicles operating on public buses (trams)

+

0.092

Number of schools

+

0.126

Index system for eco-environment

Eco-environmental pressure

Total industrial wastewater discharge (t)

-

0.015

Total industrial solid waste generation (t)

-

0.027

Industrial SO2 emissions (t)

-

0.015

Industrial dust emissions (t)

-

0.024

Eco-environmental status

Greenery coverage in built-up areas (%)

+

0.100

Area of landscaped areas in built-up areas (ha)

+

0.088

Residential household water consumption (t)

-

0.013

Actual forest land area at the end of the year (ha)

+

0.194

Electricity consumption of the whole society (kWh)

-

0.028

Eco-environmental response

Integrated utilization rate of industrial solid waste(%)

+

0.017

Urban domestic sewage treatment rate (%)

+

0.022

Industrial SO2 removal (t)

+

0.225

Newly planted forest area (ha)

+

0.230