Assessment of coastal sustainable development along the maritime silk road using an integrated natural-economic-social (NES) ecosystem.

Heliyon · 2023 · PMC10329136 · PMID 37426792

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The average score of the Coastal Sustainable Development Index (CSDI) for the countries along the MSR generally showed an increasing trend, from 42.8 in 2010 to 44.5 in 2020.

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The results showed (1) a decreasing trend for coastal sustainable development between 2010 and 2015 and a rapid increasing trend between 2015 and 2020; (2) spatially varied CSD, with higher levels in Europe and Southeast Asia and lower levels in South and West Asia and North Africa; and (3) a strong influence on CSD by a combination of economic and social factors and relatively little influence by natural factors.

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