Eco-security Monitoring Index System for Urban Development Zone

Urban Development Zones are always constructed rapidly and intensively, resulting in contingent ecological and environmental problems. This paper establishes a set of ecological-security index system for urban development and construction. It utilizes Pressure-State-Response (P-S-R) model to select frequently-used indexes, which represent the features of urban society, economy, and ecosystem environment. Through public survey and the analysis of the questionnaires, and Analytic Hierarchy Process (A-H-P) analysis, it prioritizes all the indices and screens out a set of operational eco-security index system according to the principle of monitorability. This method is applied to establish the eco-security monitoring index system for Beijing Eco-Tech Development Zone, therefore to provide basis for dynamic eco-security monitoring for the development and construction of Beijing Eco-Tech Zone. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.