Sustainability evaluation based on the Three-dimensional Ecological Footprint and Human Development Index: A case study on the four island regions in China

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110509

	Sustainability evaluation based on the Three-dimensional Ecological Footprint and Human Development Index: A case study on the four island regions in China
	Long, Xinyi 4; Yu, Huajun 4; Sun, Mingxing 1; Wang, Xue-Chao 2; Klemes, Jiri Jaromir 2; Xie, Wei 4; Wang, Chengdong 4; Li, Wenqing 4; Wang, Yutao 3,4
刊名	JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
	2020-07-01
卷号	265 页码:12
关键词	Three-dimensional Ecological Footprint Human Development Index Ecological well-being performance Natural capital Human welfare Sustainability evaluation
ISSN号	0301-4797
DOI	10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110509
通讯作者	Wang, Yutao(yutaowang@fudan.edu.cn)
英文摘要	Sustainable development emphasizes the sustainability of natural resources and the environment as well as the development of social welfare. Under the background of resource scarcity and environmental constraints, maximizing social welfare is an inevitable choice to achieve sustainable development. Ecological Wellbeing Performance (EWP) can comprehensively reflect the efficiency of natural capital conversion into social welfare, and improving EWP is a feasible measure to achieve sustainable development. Moreover, island areas are the extremely complicated ecological-social-economic systems due to the traits that are geographical isolation, scarce resources, and frequent natural disasters, so that emphasizing the sustainability of island systems is a key step for achieving sustainable development goals. This study developed the EWP model based on the improved Three-dimensional Ecological Footprint (EF) and urban-scale Human Development Index (HDI), to synthetically evaluate and analyze the sustainable development of four major island regions in China with the data in 2017. Results found that: (1) The four regions are all in ecological deficits, being in exchange for overdraft natural capital for economic development. The EFdepth is greater than the original length 1 indicating the excessive consumption of the natural capital stock. The EFsize reflects the abundance and liquidity of regional natural capital, all the four regions are with the generally low level of flow capital utilization. Hainan with highest EFsize 0.428 is due to its comparatively sparse population density, abundant resources, and strong ecological capacity, while the relatively large population density and more restricted natural capital flows make Taiwan in the lowest value. (2) Judging from the evaluation results of the HDI, Chongming (0.796) and Hainan (0.773) high development level are relatively behind Taiwan (0.912) and Zhoushan (0.827) very high development level, for the impact of income is greater, that is, economic development in Hainan and Chongming is slightly weak. (3) Taiwan, with the highest EWP 3.646, shows the excellent natural resource utilization efficiency and sustainability, followed by Zhoushan, Chongming, and Hainan. In general, increasing HDI while reducing EF can be an ideal way to improve the efficiency of ecological resources and achieve sustainable urban development.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[71774032] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71961137009] ; Newton Advanced Fellowship from the British Academy[NAFR2180103] ; Newton Fund[NAFR2180103] ; project Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory -SPIL - EU CZ Operational Programme Research, Development and Education, Priority 1: Strengthening capacity for quality research, at the Brno University of Technology[CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000456] ; Fudan University
WOS关键词	COUNTRIES ; ECONOMICS
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000533526800040
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Newton Advanced Fellowship from the British Academy ; Newton Fund ; project Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory -SPIL - EU CZ Operational Programme Research, Development and Education, Priority 1: Strengthening capacity for quality research, at the Brno University of Technology ; Fudan University
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/159628]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Wang, Yutao
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Ecosyst Network Observat & Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Brno Univ Technol, Fac Mech Engn, NETME Ctr, Sustainable Proc Integrat Lab SPIL,VUT Brno, Tech 2896-2, Brno 61669, Czech Republic 3.Inst EcoChongming IEC, 3663 Northern Zhongshan Rd, Shanghai 20006, Peoples R China 4.Fudan Univ, Fudan Tyndall Ctr, Dept Environm Sci & Engn, Shanghai 200438, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Long, Xinyi,Yu, Huajun,Sun, Mingxing,et al. Sustainability evaluation based on the Three-dimensional Ecological Footprint and Human Development Index: A case study on the four island regions in China[J]. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT,2020,265:12.
APA	Long, Xinyi.,Yu, Huajun.,Sun, Mingxing.,Wang, Xue-Chao.,Klemes, Jiri Jaromir.,...&Wang, Yutao.(2020).Sustainability evaluation based on the Three-dimensional Ecological Footprint and Human Development Index: A case study on the four island regions in China.JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT,265,12.
MLA	Long, Xinyi,et al."Sustainability evaluation based on the Three-dimensional Ecological Footprint and Human Development Index: A case study on the four island regions in China".JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 265(2020):12.