Abstract

Protecting the ecological environment of the Yellow River Basin (YRB) is the key to promoting high-quality development of the whole YRB. Based on the information on environmental governance and the ecological environment in the YRB from 2016 to 2020, we constructed the regional eco-environment index (ECI) of the YRB, measured the government’s environmental governance capacity, and used the entropy weight method and relevant spatial statistical tools to reveal the spatial distribution characteristics of the ECI in the YRB. In addition, we used the method of configuration qualitative comparative analysis to explore the adaptation path of environmental governance for improving the ECI. The study showed that the regional ECI of the YRB was obviously heterogeneous, showing a spatial pattern of “good in the upstream, middle in the downstream, and depressed in the midstream.” There are three appropriate paths for environmental governance to improve the ecological environment: the government efficiency-oriented, rule of law-oriented, and pressure-oriented paths, among which the government efficiency-oriented path is the most common path. The findings propose the governance path of the ecological environment in the YRB from the perspective of configuration, reveal the configuration relationship among the factors affecting the government’s environmental governance, broaden ideas for solving ecological environment improvement problems in the YRB, and enrich the research methods of the government’s environmental governance.

中文翻译：

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黄河流域环境治理与区域生态改善的适应路径

摘要

保护黄河流域生态环境是推动整个黄河流域高质量发展的关键。基于2016—2020年长江流域环境治理和生态环境信息，构建了长江流域区域生态环境指数（ECI），测算了政府环境治理能力，运用熵权法和相关空间统计工具揭示了黄河流域ECI的空间分布特征。此外，我们采用配置定性比较分析的方法，探索环境治理提高ECI的适应路径。研究表明，长江流域区域ECI异质性明显，呈现出“上游好、下游中、中游低”的空间格局。环境治理改善生态环境的适宜路径有政府效率导向、法治导向和压力导向三种路径，其中政府效率导向路径是最常见的路径。研究结果提出了配置视角下的长江流域生态环境治理路径，揭示了政府环境治理影响因素之间的配置关系，拓宽了解决长江流域生态环境改善问题的思路，丰富了长江流域生态环境治理的研究方法。政府的环境治理。