Abstract:

By employing energy analysis and local ecological footprint method,this paper attempts to improve the traditional ecological footprint method with a proposal of transferring energy flows in renewable resources and social consumption to the corresponding biological productive units.In this paper,the calculation of the local ecological footprint method was optimized.That is,consumption accounts was revised considering of trade so as to be close to reality.The paper worked out that the ecological capacity per capita of Zhejiang Province in 2007 was 1174 1 hm2.The ecological footprint per capita was 3946 2 hm2.The ecological deficit per capita was 2772 1 hm2 and the ecological footprint of per 1×104 yuan GDP was 1.063 2 hm^2.This paper also conducted a vertical comparison of the indicators from the year of 2000 to 2008 so as to illustrate its development trend. Taken as a standard,the indicators of 2007 were compared with those in some regions with the further effort to expound Zhejiang’s sustainable development. With calculation and the reality of Zhejiang Province,new resources use models like rain collection and tidal energy exploitation were put forward in this paper. It was encouraged to save energy, and advised to develop forestry and processing of forest products and to develop aquatic products breeding and processing. Resource utilization efficiency of Zhejiang Province was considered high