Empirical Analysis on Ecological Footprint of Household Consumption in China

Does China have to take an environment-friendly consumption pattern when China is a developing country whose per capita income ranks more than 100th in the world? It cannot get a definite answer for lacking of the researches on environmental pressure of household consumption. Among the different kinds of researches on environmental stress, ecological footprint analysis can directly measure the impact of household consumption on environment. This paper calculated per capita household ecological footprint and ecological deficit or ecological surplus in China, and concluded that: per capita ecological footprint is in an increasing trend and per capita ecological carrying capacity changes steady; ecology per capita is in a deficit which extend to increase at the beginning of year 2002, and the deficit in the year 2007 is most serious. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of RIUDS