Green Airport Evaluation System Research Based On Sustainable Development

In recent years, the green economy theme focusing on sustainable development with regard to both economic and social aspect has become the tide of the times in various countries and regions around the world. As the12th Five-year Plan for Civil Aviation development officially released by CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) in2011, focusing on energy consumption and emission reduction, specifically speaking, building up green airports has been listed as one of the five main tasks during that period. Considering the status of sustainable development in civil aviation inbound and outbound as well as the green airport building progress now in China, Study on Systematic Evaluation of Sustainable Green Airport has been set as the subject for this article. It aims at explaining the forming mechanism of green airports; establishing a string of evaluation indicators for green airports that meet day-to-day operation demands; discovering the general rule on green airports construction and operation; searching for effective measurements on building green airports in China. Achieving these will promote the China green airport development in both theory and practice by enhancing sustainability in airport construction and operation as well as facilitating the healthy development of the industry.The article throughout is based on three theories, namely externality theory of environmental economics, sustainable development economic theory and statistic indicator theory. It adopts methods that combining both normative and empirical research, taken into consideration of a series of advanced theories and feasible practices. Firstly, based on analysis of research findings with regard to green building especially green airports, the article studies the operation characteristics of civil aviation airports in the different phases of planning, construction and operation. In addition, it specifies the connotation and basic elements related to the forming and development of green airports and the concept model of its formation mechanism. Secondly, setting a string of evaluating indicators that would measure green airports and its influence factors in an all around manner via various statistical theories and methods. Then building up a mathematical model for green airport evaluation considers both its scientific nature and applicability. Necessary computer program design should be added in to increase the maneuverability of this evaluation method. Finally, there is an empirical research on green airports evaluation with data collecting from different classes of Chinese civil aviation airports, which could reflect the status of green airports in China at the moment and prove the viability of the evaluation indicators mentioned in this article. Based on the results of this research, the article clarifies the main influence factors affecting the green airport development in China and discusses in details on how to speed up the progress in this regard.The creativity of this paper lies in:Firstly, to review green airport in lie with reality in a systematic way; analysis relevant elements throughout the life cycle of airport, including planning, construction and operation so as to build up a series of evaluation indicators in an all around manner. Secondly, to establish a systematic method to evaluate green airport via analyzing the evaluation indicators mentioned above; creatively brings about the notions of a number of indicators in the field of overall airport review, airport resource saving, airport ecological environment protection and hazards in green airports. Insist in balancing advanced theory and viable practices by research and study on ten typical airports using professional models with matrix which priorities the corrective measures needed. All these above proved the viability of the evaluation indicators selected and the method applied.