Journal of Northeastern University Natural Science ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (8): 1209-1216.DOI: 10.12068/j.issn.1005-3026.2020.08.023

• Resources & Civil Engineering • Previous Articles    

Research on Suitability of Creative Industry Distribution Based on MaxEnt

ZHAO Qi1, LIU Fu-ying2   

  1. 1. School of Resources & Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China; 2. JangHo Architecture College, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China.
  • Received:2019-09-02 Revised:2019-09-02 Online:2020-08-15 Published:2020-08-28
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Abstract: An ecological niche model of creative industry was developed on the basis of the geographic characteristics of creative industry parks and 23 factors associated with the environment of cities were selected. The maximum entropy model (MaxEnt) was applied to determine the contribution of each factor and identify 8 major contributing factors. The fuzzy membership was applied to study the effect of environmental factors on the creative industry. The model results were integrated with the weight of environmental factors to get the suitability of creative industry and to produce predictive maps of site suitability. Then, based on the GIS spatial analysis, the cities were categorized into four zones, including unsuitable, low-suitable, moderatly-suitable, and highly-suitable regions, whose suitability ranges from low to high. The results showed that highly-suitable regions are mostly located in the eastern coastal provinces and provincial cities in China and that the predicted results are similar to the actual ones, which confirms the high reliability of the model.

Key words: creative industry, suitability, the maximum entropy model (MaxEnt), fuzzy membership

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