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The Evaluation Of Regitional Sustainable Development Base On Ecological Footprint Analysis Method--A Case Study Of Fuzhou City

Posted on:2006-03-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:K G ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2121360152466655Subject:Environmental Engineering
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This article reviewed the background of produced in sustainable development and the concept and intension of sustainable development. Some indicator sets which measure developing sustainability proposed in resent years are discussed, the theory and practice of sustainable development studied our country in recent years are introduced. Based on analyzing about various kinds of indicator sets, one method that based on ecological footprint analysis method, combine social and economic indicator is proposed. This method weighs the sustainable development of the area with the regional sustainable development degree. The ecological footprint analysis method was put forward by ecological economist William and Wackernagel in Canada. Because it is ocular and clear, easy to operate, and can tolerance batter the sustainability of regional development, this method become more and more popular. But its main weak point lies in not reflecting the index of social economic progress in the region. Regional sustainable development should include ecological sustainable development, economic sustainable development and social sustainable development, with ecological sustainable development for foundation, economic sustainable development to be at all, social sustainable development as purpose. In order to revise the deficiency of the analytic approach of the ecological footprint, this article weighs the sustainable development of the area with the regional sustainable development degree, thinking it is concludes ecological sustainable developing degree, economic sustainable developing degree and social sustainable developing degree.Calculating the sustainable development in 2000 of Fuzhou with this method, it is 0.883 to get the regional sustainable development degree. This indicates the development of Fuzhou isn't sustainable. The result of calculation indicates the development of economy and society of Fuzhou are sustainable in 2000, and the former is more outstanding, but the ecological development is not sustainable. This text analyses on this result, how to reduce the ecological deficit in order to realize the ecological sustainable development has put forward, and some suggestions on the social economic development of Fuzhou are proposed at the same time.Finally, this article brings out a new idea to calculate regional ecological carrying capacity. At the same time, the further prospects in study on regional sustainable development have done and the feasibility of applying cybernetics to direct regional sustainable development has validated.
Keywords/Search Tags:sustainable development, ecological footprint, region, developing sustainability degree, Fuzhou
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