湖北省2004年生态足迹分析

定量测度可持续发展能力是目前可持续发展研究的重要课题和前沿领域,其核心是确定人类是否生存于生态系统的承载力范围内.介绍Wackernagel M等1996年以来提出和发展的可持续发展的定量测度方法--生态足迹法,并运用此方法计算和分析湖北省2004年的生态足迹.结果表明湖北省2004年人均生态足迹赤字为1.269 82 hm2.反映出目前湖北省的生产、生活强度已超过生态系统的承载能力,区域生态系统处于人类的过度开发利用和压力之下.

The analysis of ecological footprint of Hubei Province in 2004

The quantitative measurement of Sustainable Development has become one of the frontiers of the present sustainable development research, whose core is to determine whether mankind survives within the bearing capacity of the ecological system. The article deals in some details with the quantitative measure method ( the ecological footprint method) for Sustainable Development established by M. Wackernagel and others since 1996. The research applies the method to calculate and analyse the ecological footprint of Hubei Province in 2004. The result indicates that the ecological deficit per capita of Hubei province was 1.269 82 hm2 in 2004. The ecological footprint deficit shows that the human load has already stayed beyond the regional ecological capacity and the regional natural ecosystem is under great pressure of human activities.