摘要：In response to a growing environmental crisis and to vast social inequalities in global development, we argueto adopt harmony development as a leading development model. The harmony assessment and harmonyindicators can be powerful decision-supporting tools that foster harmonious development. In this paper, aset of evaluation indicators and models are proposed to assess the harmony level of the water-humansystem. Based on the concept of water-human harmony, authors established an index system with capacityto estimate water-human harmony, including 2 systems, 7 subsystems and 24 indicators. Employing SetPair Analysis theory and Variable Fuzzy Set theory, the authors developed a model based on the variableweights (SPA-VFS-VW model) to describe the development degree of water-human system. The cooperativegame theory was applied to set up a Cooperative Game Distance Coordination Degree model (CGDCDmodel). A novel harmony degree method (multi-criteria multiplicative synthesis model) was developed toassess the harmony degree. The derived models in this paper were applied to estimate the harmony degreeof water-human system for a period of 10 years (2001 to 2010) in the Weihe basin. The results indicated thatthe values of harmony degree have a slightly decreasing trend ranging 0.597 to 0.696 in values. The assessingperformance was compared with two assessment models to confirm the feasibility of the developed modelsand the reliability of the obtained results. This exploratory study also illustrates that the synthesis modelpresented in this paper can provide a practical and feasible approach to assess the water-human harmony.Assessment indicators and models provide the powerful decision-supporting tools for making environmentstrategies.
