Paper Info
Title
Towards Measuring and Visualizing Sustainable National Power—A Case Study of China and Neighboring Countries
Abstract
This paper presents a new perspective of national power-sustainable national power (SNP)-emphasizing both the traditional comprehensive national power (CNP) and social and environmental sustainability. We propose a measurement to quantify the SNP based on the measurement of comprehensive national power and a sustainable adjusted index. In addition, density-equalizing maps are adopted to visualize the sustainable national power of countries in order to gain a better understanding for its current state and future development from a cartographic perspective. China and its neighboring countries are selected as a case study area. The results show that China outperforms other countries in most of the CNP dimensions but performs poorly in various SNP-adjusted dimensions within the study area. The composite score shows that China is with the highest regional SNP, followed by Japan, Russia, South Korea and India. Furthermore, time series of cartograms reveal evidence showing power transitions among countries. In addition, the effectiveness of cartograms for cartographic communication is discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3390/ijgi4031672
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
cartogram,social sustainability,environmental sustainability,national power
Comprehensive National Power,China,Social sustainability,Regional science,Cartogram,Geography,National power,Sustainability,Cartography
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
3
2220-9964
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hua Liao1113.68
Weihua Dong2256.40
Huiping Liu300.68
Yuejing Ge431.08