生态足迹评介及国际研究前沿

REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN RESEARCH ON ECOLOGICAL FPPTPRINT

生态足迹评价方法是评估可持续发展的一个全球可比的、可测度的直观且综合的指标,有明显的政策含义,是迄今提出的评估可持续发展的众多指标中最受生态经济学界关注、推崇和广泛应用的一个指标。评介了生态足迹方法模型的优缺点,综述了国际上生态足迹研究的最新进展及研究前沿,指出了国内围绕生态足迹研究应该尽快开展的工作:①生态足迹方法模型的改进及应用研究;②丰富生态足迹方法模型携带的信息量和政策内涵;③社会经济系统新陈代谢以及人类对初级生产力的占用研究;④消费模式与全球资源和环境的压力的关系;⑤物质流核算帐户研究和生态包袱分析研究。

Ecological footprint (EF) which was put forward in the 1990s is a useful and powerful indicator of comparing the regional development sustainability in the world; it has been discussed and applied much in the world because of its particular feature and maneuverability. But there are also many shortcomings of it; we discussed its advantages and disadvantages briefly. In fact, the researchs all over the world have conducted much related work on the improvement of the original model and on the analysis of methodology of EF. The paper reviewed in details the latest achievements and frontiers of EF and analyzed the related research fields in order to improve the EF model and its meaning for sustainable decision-making. According to the review, we believe the further research work as the paper concluded include the following: one is the methodology and model improvement and application of EF; two is to enrich the information and policy-making suggestions embodied in the result of EF; three is the study of metabolism of social-economy system and human appropriation of net primary production; four is to identify the relationship between the consumption pattern and pressure of world resources and environment imposed by consumption pattern; and the last is the building and analysis of material flow accounting ,PIOT and ecological rucksack.