Using comparative statistics, the economic and environmental
tradeoffs associated with the two different ocean uses in base year
2007 and 2015 are investigated. As shown in Table 1, two different
projections for annual regional economic growth between 2007
and 2015, 12% and 15%, are considered based on relevant economic
analyses of Xiamen and China [61–63]. Different economic and
environmental scenarios in 2007 and 2015 are simulated separately
by changing the final demand vector Y