Preliminary Exploration and Analysis of Agro-Ecological Footprint Calculation in Huanggang

摘要

The ecological footprint is a quantitative method which can measure the sustainable development of ecological. In this way, we can conclude the impact degree of human activities on the environment. In this paper, the study region is Huanggang which is in Hubei province. Based on the introduction of ecological footprint, we calculate and analyze the agro-ecological footprint of Huanggang. The results show that the agro-ecological footprint of Huanggang is: 1.728252 hm~2/person. The available ecological capacity is 0.314946 hm~2/person; Per capita ecological deficit is up to1.413306 hm~2/person. This result shows that the agriculture development of Huanggang is in the state of unsustainable, meanwhile, we proposed some countermeasures to improve the agriculture sustainable capability of Huanggang.