A dynamic assessment of Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity in Guangzhou using RS and GIS

Author

Zhou Tao ; Wang YunPeng ; Wang Fang

Author_Institution

SKLOG, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 May 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

The sustainable urban development research is a hot spot in science, economics, society etc. The Ecological Footprint (EF) method, which originally developed by Wackernagel and Rees in the mid-1990s, is a useful approach to detect the sustainability of the city. The Ecological Footprint (EF) is a measure of human demand on the bioproductive land area that is required to support the resource demands of a given population or specific activities. Comparing with Biocapacity (BC), which represents the bioproductive supply, EF provides a valuable tool to evaluate the carrying capacity of the earth and human appropriation of resources.

Keywords

cellular automata; ecology; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; socio-economic effects; terrain mapping; time series; vegetation; AD 1997 to 2007; AD 2015; CA; China; EF method; GIS; Guangzhou; SPA; biocapacity dynamic assessment; bioproductive land area; cellular automata; ecological footprint method; future forecasting; geographic information system; land use change; land use type; remote sensing; set pair analysis; socio-economic system; time series; time-sequence calculation; tradition dynamic model; urban development; urban ecosystem; Anthropometry; Area measurement; Biological system modeling; Cities and towns; Earth; Economic forecasting; Geographic Information Systems; Humans; Predictive models; Remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2009 Joint

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3460-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3461-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URS.2009.5137719

Filename

5137719