Ecological Footprint Analysis:Case of Xiushan County

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10.2991/icemet-15.2015.84How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ecological Footprint; Ecological carrying capacity Ecological Benefits.

Abstract

Protecting the ecological environment of Wuling Mountain Area is important for realization sustainable development in the area. This study, using the ecological foot print model calculated the ecological footprint and ecological capacity of the XiuShan county. According to the analysis the results for the year 2011 were 2.3719hm2,0.5830hm2 and -1.7889hm2 for per capita ecological footprint, per capita ecological carrying capacity, capita ecological deficit of the area respectively .Based on these results XiuShanXian monetization ecological footprint was found to be -68 one hundred million. This shows the local ecological environment is under serious deficit. Finally this paper recommended course of actions that need to be taken in order to integrate the economic development with the environmental protection for realization of sustainable development in the area.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weijun He
AU  - Jun Wu
AU  - Hui Zhang
PY  - 2015/08
DA  - 2015/08
TI  - Ecological Footprint Analysis:Case of Xiushan County
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 391
EP  - 394
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemet-15.2015.84
DO  - 10.2991/icemet-15.2015.84
ID  - He2015/08
ER  -