Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/URS.2009.5137719
