JOURNAL OF YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTI ›› 2016, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 22-26.DOI: 10.11988/ckyyb.20150774

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Sustainable Utilization of Water Resources in Zhejiang Province Based on Ecological Footprint Analysis

LI Yun-jie, LÜ Hui-jin, BU Peng   

  1. College of Geography and Environmental Sciences ,Zhejiang Normal University,Jinhua 321004,China
  • Received:2015-09-11 Online:2016-12-20 Published:2016-12-13

Abstract: “A total of five waters treatment” was put forward in 2014 in Zhejiang province, and 2015 is an important year for the strategy.Zhejiang Province advocates the construction of an ecological province, and so the sustainable utilization of water resource is an important issue to be considered at this stage and the dynamic analysis of water resource can present its utilization actuality. Based on ecological footprint method, the analysis of ecological footprint, ecological carrying capacity and the dynamic change of water resources may provide references for water resources utilization, management and planning in Zhejiang Province.The results show that water ecological footprint in Zhejiang Province changed frequently from 2006 to 2013; the ecological carrying capacity of water was larger than the ecological footprint, giving rise to ecological surplus of water; the ecological pressure index of water ranged from 0 to 1, indicating a higher safe factor; water ecological footprint per ten-thousand-yuan GDP was also higher,which proved that water resources in Zhejiang Province was unsustaintable.

Key words: ecological footprint of water resources, carring capacity of water resources, dynamic analysis, Zhejiang Province, ecological pressure index

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