[1]ZHAO Pengyu,BU Xiuqin,CUI Qiang,et al.Change in the Ecological Footprint and Carrying Capacity in Xinzhou from 2004 to 2013[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2017,24(04):373-378.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
24
Number of periods:
2017 04
Page number:
373-378
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Public date:
2017-08-28
- Title:
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Change in the Ecological Footprint and Carrying Capacity in Xinzhou from 2004 to 2013
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ZHAO Pengyu1, BU Xiuqin2, CUI Qiang1, ZHANG Junqing1, WANG Cuiping3, FENG Wenyong1
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1. Department of Tourism Management, Xinzhou Teachers University, Xinzhou, Shanxi 034000, China;
2. Scientific Research Academy of Guanxi Environmental Protection, Nanning 530000, China;
3. Northwest Institute of Forest Survey, Planning and Design, State Forestry Administration, Xi’an 710048, China
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- Keywords:
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ecological footprint; ecological carrying capacity; ecological surplus and loss; development capacity; Xinzhou
- CLC:
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X171.4
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- Abstract:
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Waste gas, waste water, solid waste pollution subjects accounts and water resources accounts are added in the Modified Ecological Footprint Model, the biological account, global average yields and productive land equalization factor in Xinzhou were re-identified, and the ecological footprint and capacity of each account were calculated. The results are shown as follows. (1) Per capita ecological footprint growth of Xinzhou is obvious, rising from 20 042.098 8 hm2 per capita in 2004 to 5.388 9 hm2 per capita in 2013, per capita ecological carrying capacity remained at 1.28 hm2, per capita ecological surplus and loss performed as the ecological deficit, and the deficit rose from 0.800 9 hm2 per capita to 4.103 8 hm2 per capita. (2) The ecological footprint account performed the difference in 10 years. The ecological surpluses had arable land, forestland, building land, water resources, the other three types of ecological surplus decreased exception of water. The grassland, water, energy land, pollution consumptive land presented as ecological deficit in addition to the pollution ecological deficit stabilized at a certain range. The grassland, water, energy and land use had the trend of a rapid increase, resulting in increase of ecological deficit. (3) The whole Xinzhou ecological pressure index increased from 1.62 in 2004 to 4.19 in 2013, the ecological diversity index decreased from 1.261 to 0.855, the GDP ecological footprint declined from 4.355 hm2 / Million Yuan to 2.563 hm2 / Million Yuan. Those facts reveal that the distribution of the ecological footprint is increasingly unbalanced and the ecosystem becomes unstable; meanwhile, the resource utilization is gradually improving, capacity development index rises from 2.646 to 4.609, which also explains the city’s sustainable development in a good state.