The Application of EF Analysis in Quantitative Assessment of Sustainable Development

Quantitative measures for sustainable development are important topics and frontier areas of sustainable development research. The core of this paper is to determine whether human beings live within the bearing capacity of ecosystems. This paper introduces the ecological footprint method, which is proposed by Wackernagel M and other sustainable development since 1996, and uses this method to calculate and analyze the ecological footprint of Guangdong Province in 2015. The results show that the per capita ecological footprint deficit of Guangdong Province in 2015 is 1.648 32 hm(2). Reflecting the current production and living intensity of Hubei Province has exceeded the carrying capacity of ecosystems, and regional ecosystems are under the excessive exploitation and pressure of human beings.