Green development of Yangtze River Delta in China under Population-Resources-Environment-Development-Satisfaction perspective

This paper explores green development of Yangtze River Delta (YRD) under PREDS (Population-Resources-Environment-Development-Satisfaction) perspective. Based on gray relevance analysis, synergy evaluation model and factor analysismodel are constructedwith improvement ofweight determination and relevance degree calculation. Synergy evaluation results show that for the entire YRD the relevance degree of green development increases strictly. As the synergistic effect of the inner system continues to rise, the green development tend toward equilibrium (2003-2017). The provincial level green development ranking is put forward. The results of factor analysis show that four dimensions' impacts on public satisfaction are different. The prediction of "13th FiveYear Plan" suggests that, improving environmental indicators is the most potential solution to promote green development of YRD. Investment completed in industrial pollution treatment is taken as an example to show how the index will affect satisfaction under different growth rates. It turns out that when the growth rate is below or over the critical value (16%), the influencewill go out of the trough and continue to increase, forming a "J" curve. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.