{"title":"A dynamic assessment of Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity in Guangzhou using RS and GIS","authors":"Wang Yunpeng, Z. Tao, Wang Fang","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137719","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137719","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.