生态足迹理论在我国干旱区的应用与探讨——以新疆为例

可持续发展是当代研究的一个热点问题，也是一个有待深入研究的重大问题。应用生态足迹理论对地处我国西北干旱地区的新疆1999年的发展状况进行了评估。结果发现，新疆1999年的人均生态足迹赤字的数值是-0.8863hm^2，总的消费“影子区域”为15.7万km^2，新疆目前的发展现状不利于实现持续发展。最后，对生态足迹理论进行了简要的评述。

APPLICATION AND DISCUSSION OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN ARID AREAS OF CHINA: A CASE STUDY IN XINJIANG UYGUR AUTONOMOUS REGION

Sustainable development is a hot issue in contemporary period. It is an important issue, and needs to be studied further. Since the concept of sustainable development is put forward, many kinds of index systems, which measure the level of regional development, have been provided. But they have some flaws. In the late 1990s, ecological footprint theory, used to deal with a certain area's development conditions, was provided. It measures the development level from a new aspect, comes from the knowledge that people's consumption can be transferred into biological productive land which produces all the resources and assimilates all the wastes generated by human. This paper introduces the theory of ecological footprint. By taking Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as a case study, its development situation in 1999 is assessed by using ecological footprint theory. The results show that the per capicta deficit of ecological footprint in Xinjiang was 0.8863 hm\+2 in 1999, and the development at present is disadvantageous for achieving sustainable development. At last, brief comment about the theory of ecological footprint is put forward.