Abstract:

Based on regional sustainable development and evidence from the ambient area of Danjiangkou reservoir in Hubei province, an overall evaluation of sustainable development capability of the reservoir ambient area was analyzed in this paper. The results showed that the difficulties of resettlement restricted sustainable development of the reservoir ambient area; the economy growth was slow and construction of infrastructure was lag; the level of urbanization was lower and social contradictions of the reservoir ambient area were obviously; abundance of nature resource and shortage of exploitation coexisted and land resource reduced due to submergence of reservoir ambient area; the quality of environment is better but the ecological basis is flimsy. Using synthesized multiple factor evaluation models the trend of sustainable development capability of the reservoir ambient area from 1999 to 2005 was evaluated in this paper. The results showed that sustainable development capability of reservoir ambient area manifested constant increase trend from 1999 to 2003, but it began to descend smoothly from 2004. The subsystems of population, economy, society, resource and environment presented different characters. Finally, development countermeasures were put forward: undertaking resettlement of people from inundation area and helping them to take employment; reducing and eliminating the poverty of the reservoir resettlement and enhancing investment of infrastructure; speeding up the urbanization step and relieving social contradictions of the reservoir ambient area; utilizing the advantage of water resource and improving ecological environment of the reservoir ambient area.