Assessment of Sustainable Development Based on Emergy Ecological Footprint in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

Abstract:

This study assessed and analyzed the sustainability of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by converting the human consumption to the land area appropriated, which is integrated in emergy analysis ideas, and compared the contributions to the total ecological footprint from the different biological productive land. The result showed that per capita emergy energy footprint and the corresponding ecocapacity in the study area are 1.0033 hm² and 0.7300, respectively, showing the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in 2010 had an unsustainable development pattern, since that the human consumption had been increasing along with the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization.The outcomes and values of the ecological footprint intensify and ecological pressure index were presented to depict severe insecurity of ecological system, and the current science technology level optimization may be still hard to counteract the enormous ecological environment pressure. The emergy ecological footprint structure provided the improvement direction and points in such complex sustainable development system. The study would provide the foundation for regional sustainable development research in similar areas.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 998-999)
• Pages: 1410-1413
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.998-999.1410
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Fei Fei Tan*, Zhao Hua Lu, Zhi Yuan Niu, Hong Yu Zhang, Xiao Zhang
• Keywords: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, Ecological Footprint, Emergy Analysis, Sustainable Development

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