The Measurement of Sustainable Development for Southwest Area of Shandong Province Based on Ecological Footprint

Does the human load stay within global carrying capacity?The ecological footprint concept has been designed to answer this question and estimate man's impact on nature.The article calculates and analyzes the ecological footprint ledger of the biotic resources,energy and ecological environment pollution of southwest area of Shandong province in 2006.The results indicate that the resource ecological footprint per capita of this area was 3.166 hm2,while the ecological capacity per capita was only 0.411 hm2,so there is an ecological deficit per capita of 2.755 hm2.And resource ecological footprint per capita has surpassed ecological capacity per capita seriously.Since matural resources are the material foundation for production in an economic system,the supply deficit will limit economic growth.