A study of regional sustainable development based on GIS/RS and SD model - Case of Hadaqi industrial corridor

Active development has become a necessity for societies to ensure ecological, social, and economical sustainability. This study aimed to investigate the coordinated development of the Hadaqi industrial corridor using GIS/RS technology and a system dynamics (SD) model for social development and the ecological environment. The results show that: (1) Population growth has certain impact, but predatory development of resources and unreasonable development practices is is the main cause for ecological environment deterioration. (2) It makes is the lowest GDP growth on inertia development model, the highest resource consumption and environmental pollution on economic development model, the rapid economic growth, the least pollution emissions and energy consumption on PRED model. (3) Hadaqi industrial corridor is a typical area of high intensity interaction between people and the nature in the current and a period of time in the future. PRED should be promoted step by step to achieve the coordinated development of social development and the ecological environment.