Development of Evaluation System of Coastline Resource in Dafeng

• Published in: Polish maritime research Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 181 - 187
• Main Authors: Ming, Chen, Changxin, Xu, Hongquan, Chen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter Open 28-08-2017; Sciendo
• Subjects: Analytic Hierarchy Process; Coastline; Evaluation System
• ISSN: 2083-7429; 2083-7429
• DOI: 10.1515/pomr-2017-0081

Coastline is one type of valuable non-renewable resources. From the perspective of economic theory, it can gather population, promote traffic construction, and then improve the level of international trade. The research object of this paper is the coastline resource in Dafeng area. Firstly, we have a brief summary of the existing coastline evaluation literature, then introduce the location and natural attributes of the coastline resources in Dafeng. Following that, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model is used to build the economic evaluation index system based on the characteristics of coastline in Dafeng. Specially, this index system consists of 6 factors, and a total of 41 detailed indicators were chosen including water depth, GDP, etc. On this basis, we use the assignment method to quantify the weight of each index, and calculate the comprehensive score of coastline resource by using the YAAHP software. The final conclusion is as follows: The total score of economic evaluation of coastline resource in Dafeng is 0.87. Therefore, the coastline resource in Dafeng will eventually be constructed a unique coastal economic zone, where the implemented port industrial projects will include shipbuilding, logistics, mechanical processing etc.