Applying emergy and decoupling analysis to assess the sustainability of China’s coal mining area

The sustainable development of coal mining area continues to be one of the most topical issues in the world. Taking Shainxi Province as a case, this study applies emergy and decoupling analysis to build a multi-index sustainability evaluation system and constructs an emergy decoupling index to investigate the sustainability of a coal mining area in China during 2006–2015. It overcomes the problem of the unification of the traditional evaluation...