中国生态足迹、多样性与承载力的计算与分析

• Published in: 地理学报(英文版) Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 19 - 26
• Main Authors: 徐中民, 程国栋, 张志强, Paul H Templet, Yongyuan YIN
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: Department of Geography, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China%State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, CAREERI, CAS, Lanzhou 730000, China%Louisiana State Univ. Institute for Environmental Studies, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA%University of British Columbia, Sustainable Development Research Institute, B5-2202 Main Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4 2003
• Subjects: ecological footprints; diversity; China; development capacity
• ISSN: 1009-637X; 1861-9568

F062.2; The ecological footprint of China's provinces is calculated in this paper. In general,China's development is not sustainable because its ecological footprint is beyond its bio-capacity. Thesustainability status of each province in China is presented. Ulanowicz's development capacityformula was introduced to discuss the relationship of development and ecological footprint's diversity.The diversity of ecological impacts is related to the efficiency with which an economy uses thesource and sink services of the environment and, in this view, should be a factor in economic output.Development capacity, calculated from the ecological footprint and its diversity, is used to examinethe relationship of economic output with the structure of the ecological footprint. China and itsprovinces are presented as a case study to investigate this relationship. The analysis shows thatfootprint capacity is significant in predicting economic output. Increasing the ecological footprint'sdiversity is presented as another way