Evaluating Urban Sustainable Development Using Cloud Model
Ting Luo, Xiaolong Xue, Liang Wang · 2017
Urban sustainable development is considered to be one of the most pressing issues in the world. In order to improve the ability of urban sustainable development, this study analyzes the influencing factors of urban sustainable development capability, and constructs the evaluation index system of urban sustainable development ability from four dimensions including economic development, resource consumption, environmental protection, and social progress. Considering the fuzziness and randomness of the evaluation index, the cloud model is used to calculate the weight of evaluation index. Finally, Harbin City is selected as a case study, the sustainable development ability is evaluated. The case study verifies the feasibility of the evaluation method, and provides a quantitative standard for improving the sustainable development ability of the city.