Estimate of Eco-Environment Carrying Capacity of Guangzhou

Author

Zhu, Yizhong ; Yan, Shilu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Public Adm., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Guangzhou has been experiencing rapid urbanization while it also faces great challenges in resouces utilization and environment protection. The concept of eco-environment carrying capacity(ECC) is employed to describe and evaluate these challenges. First, population carrying capacity of water resources and land resources are respectively estimated, and then a comprehensive evaluation model is established to evaluate the quality or status of ECC of Guangzhou in order to understand the key factors that affect the sustainable development of Guangzhou.

Keywords

ecology; environmental economics; environmental factors; sustainable development; town and country planning; water resources; ECC; Guangzhou; comprehensive evaluation model; eco-environment carrying capacity estimate; environment protection; land resources; population carrying capacity; rapid urbanization; resouces utilization; sustainable development; water resources; Biological system modeling; Cities and towns; Economic indicators; Indexes; Standards; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6579-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5998624

Filename

5998624