STUDY ON ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ASSESSMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN WUAN

Sustainable development situation of a mining city reflects the coordination of its industrial structure and environment-friendly society.This paper uses ecological footprint assessment model to calculate and analyze the ecological footprint of the mining city: Wuan city.The study result shows that EF is much more than EC in Wuan,about 11 times of it,and that Wuan is in the serious situation of ecological deficit.The main cause to the ecological deficit is because of the large demand of energy consumption.This paper puts forward corresponding suggestions on how to increase ecological capacity,to reinforce ecological construction and to accelerate sustainable development based on the resource specificity of Wuan.