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Research on port ecological suitability evaluation index system and evaluation model

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Along with the rapid development of port building, the negative impacts of port’s construction and operation on the coastline ecosystem are also increasingly strong. Therefore, it’s urgent to establish a scientific and complete system of port ecological suitability evaluation. This paper pointed out the characteristics of port ecological effects and the principles of selecting evaluation index, and used the “pressure-state-response (PSR)” model to analysis the various pressures on the environment caused by port construction and operation, and the system’s response. On this basis, we constructed the port ecological suitability evaluation index. This model used the combination of qualitative and quantitative analytic hierarchy process, to meet the multi-level, multi-objective characteristics of evaluation index system. The evaluation index system and evaluation model can be used to analysis the ecological suitability of port projects comprehensively and have some guiding significance to the port ecological suitability evaluation.

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  1. Department of Harbor and Waterway Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Yaofeng Xie, Ru Liu, Liuyan Mao & Xiaoxi Liu

  2. Guangdong Institute of Technology, Guangzhou, 510800, China

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Xie, Y., Lv, X., Liu, R. et al. Research on port ecological suitability evaluation index system and evaluation model. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng. 9, 65–70 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-014-0258-6

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