Adjustment for regional ecological footprint based on input-output technique:a case study of Jiangsu Province in 2002
基于投入产出技术的区域生态足迹调整分析——以2002年江苏为例

Ecological footprint, as a measure of sustainability evaluation, represents the biologically productive areas necessary to sustain current levels of resource consumption for a specified population. At present, there have been two alternative models to estimate ecological footprint. One is based on the standard methodology proposed by Rees and Wackernagel and its later refinement, which is sufficient enough in a closed economy. The other one, suggested by Bicknell et al., is based on input-output analysis which signifies the land appropriation used as intermediate input form those as final consumption. Furthermore, the latter method can take the final demand, accumulation, imports and exports into account synthetically in an open economy. However, Ferng pointed out some errors in the concept and calculation in Bicknell's method and proposed to use the composition of land multipliers instead of land multipliers in calculation. Taking Jiangsu Province of 2002 as a case, the authors followed the viewpoint of the input-output analysis by Bicknell , and adopted the revised methodology of Ferng to estimate the regional ecological footprint per capita. Further, the authors calculated the productive land and fossil energy land appropriation respectively. In this paper, the calculation method was based on the monetary input-output table, in response to avoiding the shortcoming of pervious EF model claimed by Bicknell, and had successfully given out the implicit land appropriation embodied in final demand, accumulation, inter-regional trade and international trade respectively.Furthermore, the authors compared the difference between the results of land appropriation in two models. It can be found that the productive land in the Bicknell's model was not as hypothetic land area as those in Wackernagel's. Rather, it is genuine land area without the balance of global benchmark. Thereby, the author advanced a method amending the genuine productive land into hypothetic land, and bridged the two self-existent models. The amended results revealed: (1) the regional EF per capita of Jiangsu is 2.3 hm2, and the ecological deficit proportion is 58.8%; (2) There had been per-capita EF deficits 0.059 hm2 lead to trade, including 0.009 hm2 productive land surplus and 0.068 hm2 energy land deficits.At length, the authors introduced the concept of land infection coefficient and land inductivity coefficient to analyze the eco-economy relationship by sectors. As a result, the highest land appropriation inductivity coefficient was the 2 nd sector, which implied the probable EF conditionality of 2 nd sector of Jiangsu in the future.