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Evaluation of Land Carrying Capacity of Island Cities: Based on the Modified Ecological Footprint Model

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According to the characteristic of island cities, this paper constructed a modified ecological footprint model which specialized for island cities. Our goal was to provide an effective method to evaluate the rational utilization of land resource of island cities. Taking Zhoushan city as the example, this paper used this modified ecological footprint model to estimate the ecological footprint and the ecological capacity of Zhoushan city, and analyzed its land use condition. The results of this paper are: (1) according to rich marine resources and the scarcity of freshwater in the island cities, we construct a modified ecological footprint model which specialized for island cities; (2) we use the modified ecological footprint model, from the quality, nutrition and heat perspective respectively to estimate the land use sustainable index (LUSI), and the result is 0.39, 0.44 and 0.49, which means Zhoushan city is highly sustainable developing.

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  1. Hang Lung Center for Real Estate/Center for Urbanization and Industrial Development, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua, China

    Jiawei Chen, Hong Zhang & Peng Zhou

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  1. Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Yuzhe Wu

  2. Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University Department of Land Management, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Sheng Zheng

  3. Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Jiaojiao Luo

  4. Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Wei Wang

  5. Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Zhibin Mo

  6. Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Liping Shan

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Chen, J., Zhang, H., Zhou, P. (2017). Evaluation of Land Carrying Capacity of Island Cities: Based on the Modified Ecological Footprint Model. In: Wu, Y., Zheng, S., Luo, J., Wang, W., Mo, Z., Shan, L. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0855-9_16

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