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Regional eco-economic resilience of Changzhi City.

WANG Shu-yu;YANG Xin-mei;SHI Chun-fen   

  1. College of Environmental Economics, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • Received:2008-12-15 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2009-07-20 Published:2009-07-20

Abstract: Based on the theory of resilience, an eco-economic resilience coefficient model was proposed, and the regional eco-economic resilience of Changzhi City in 2001〖KG-*2〗-〖KG-*7〗2006 was analyzed. In the City, the ecological footprint was increased from 86569×106 hm2 in 2001 to 198190×106 hm2 in 2006. The ecological footprint of energy was 1/2 or more of the regional ecological footprint, and its increasing rate was decreasing and lower than that of regional economic growth. The eco-economic resilience coefficient of the City decreased from 080 in 2002 to 010 in 2006. Relative to economic growth, the demand for natural resources was decreasing. To achieve the sustainable development of Changzhi City, some countermeasures including readjusting industrial structure, changing habitant consumption patterns, increasing regional ecological capacity, decreasing the increasing rate of ecological footprint, and strengthening regional eco-economic resilience were proposed.

Key words: net ecosystem CO2 exchange, gross primary productivity, ecosystem respiration, reed wetland, Yellow River Delta.