Analysis of the Effect of Ecosystem Services and Urbanization on Human Well-Being in Inner Mongolia Province

作者：Shiqi Zhang, Hanchen Wang, Xiao Fu, Mingfang Tang, Di Wu, Shuang Li, Gang Wu · 发表于：Sustainability · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.3390/su152216021 · 被引用次数：10 · 研究领域：Land Use and Ecosystem Services、Urban Green Space and Health、Urban Transport and Accessibility

Ecosystem services and urbanization processes are closely related to human well-being. Understanding the interaction between the three is of great importance for sustainable development. As a case study of northern China, Inner Mongolia Province, we attempt to build an effective framework to quantify human well-being from 1995 to 2020, using the entropy method and evaluating the interaction between ecosystem services, urbanization, and human well-being through the structural equation model. This model tries to understand the interaction between the three, as well as to provide some effective policies for local conditions to improve human well-being. The results showed that: (1) Except for the value of habitat quality, carbon storage and population density fluctuated, other ecosystem services and urbanization indicators have significantly improved at the province scale from 1995 to 2020. The ecosystem services indicators revealed differences between the western and eastern regions, while the high value of urbanization indicators showed a dispersed distribution. (2) Compared with 1995, human well-being improved significantly during the last twenty-five years, during which ecological human well-being increased about 30%, economic human well-being increased about 250%, and social human well-being increased about 170%. (3) Although the path coefficients revealed that ecosystem services and urbanization can significantly promote human well-being (ecosystem service: 0.517, urbanizat...