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Improved method of ecological footprint – Funing County ecological economic system assessments

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This paper improves the ecological footprint method by regulating cropland area with cropping index. The results calculated by the improved method are the area of cropland that human needed, but not of cropping. This study analyzes the ecological supply/demand of Funing County in China with improved ecological footprint method. It suggested that ecological remainder per thousand U.S. dollar GDP is regarded as the indicator of regional sustainable development ability and pointed out that the stockbreeding is the keystone factor that affects the regional ecological footprint.

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Acknowledgements

This study would not have been possible without the help of Environmental Protection Agency of Funing County. We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers and the editor of ENVI for their useful suggestions and valuable comments. We would also like to thank Dr. Matt Pollard and Dr. Dongmei Li corrected English for this article.

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  1. Agriculture College, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, 210095, China

    Shuyu Wang & Xinmin Bian

  2. Department of Environmental Economics, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan, 030006, China

    Shuyu Wang

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Wang, S., Bian, X. Improved method of ecological footprint – Funing County ecological economic system assessments. Environ Dev Sustain 10, 337–347 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-006-9067-y

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