Environmental protection and social development: An optimization perspective from two polarities

The development of human society is currently in a dilemma, where the further development of society needs to be considered, simultaneously, the environmental problems caused by development are becoming increasingly prominent. Therefore, how to weigh the relationship between environmental protection and social development is still a hot research topic. In consideration of such a bipolar conflict problem, a novel optimization model was proposed to study the relationship between environmental protection and social development. First, this problem is modeled as a single objective optimization problem. Secondly, a series of representative characteristics are selected from social development and environmental protection. Then, these features are preprocessed, decomposed and analyzed. Finally, the objective function is obtained through regression analysis. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach, the realistic case of China from 2000 to 2018 are employed and analyzed. The analysis result confirms that proposed model is able to achieve state-of-the-art performances.