The calculation and analysis of ecological footprints, diversity and development capacity of China
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 to increase development capacity.
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