EVALUATION OF REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY OF ECOLOGICAL COMSUMPTION BASED ON ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN HUNAN PROVINCE
运用生态足迹方法，测算2004年湖南省人均生态赤字为1.2082，指出当前发展不利于可持续，并提出促进区域可持续性的建议。
Humans consume the products and services of nature,every one of us has an impact on the earth.Evaluation of ecological sustainability reveals the base line of capacity of regional sustainable development.The issues concerned to this field involve not only to investigate the background of environment,but to understand the behavior modes of society.Canadian ecological economists initiatively bring forward the method of Ecological footprint to assess the sustainability of human consumption by comparing with the ecological carrying capacity.It is a useful indicator for measuring the pressure imposed by human on nature capital and also a powerful indicator for regional sustainability.This article describes the method and use for reference to estimate the ecological carrying capacity and the total ecological consumption of Hunan Province.Based on the ecological footprint method,the reasult show that the per capita deficit of ecological footprint was 1.2082 per capita in 2004,and the development at present is disadvantageous for achieving sustainable development.In the end,the author put forward some suggests for promote regional sustainability and relative policies goal,so as to realize the aim of regional sustainability.