Evaluation of sustainability of mycorrhizal industry development in Fujian Province-based on a combination of CRITIC empowerment method and cloud model

PLoS One. 2023 Dec 21;18(12):e0281619. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281619. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

The sustainable development of mycorrhizal industry is the key to solve the problem of "mycorrhizal forestry contradiction". As a major province of edible mushroom production and forestry resources in China, Fujian Province is also an important origin of mycorrhizal technology research and development, so it is more typical and practical to establish an index system to evaluate the sustainability of mycorrhizal industry development in Fujian Province. Through research interviews and data collection, a sustainable capacity evaluation system of mycorrhizal industry was established with 21 indicators in six dimensions: economic, ecological, social, cultural, political, and technological. A combination of CRITIC empowerment method and cloud model was used to evaluate the sustainability of mycorrhizal industry development in Fujian Province. The results show that although the economic sustainability of the mycorrhizal industry in Fujian Province is average, the overall development trend is good and there are not too many problems. The sustainability of ecological, social and technological levels all have large differences in the development of indicators and the overall development status is average, but overall, the ecological, social and technological levels show a steady forward development from 2017 to 2020. The cultural and political dimensions of sustainability not only have large differences in the development of indicators and an average overall development status, but also have a small development span from 2017 to 2020 and a slow overall development.

MeSH terms

  • China
  • Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Industrial Development*
  • Industry
  • Sustainable Development*
  • Technology

Grants and funding

The article is funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China General Project "Research on Modernization of Rural Environmental Governance System and Governance Capacity" (20BSH113)The project leader of this fund project is Huang Senwei, who has made the following contributions in writing the article: making preliminary modifications to the article and grasping the overall direction of the article.