Research on Foreign Trade of Province Based on the Ecological Footprint
Keywords:
emergy; ecological footprint; foreign trade; Guangdong ProvinceAbstract
In order to understand whether Guangdong's foreign trade is coordinated with
ecological environment, we use the emergy ecological footprint model to analyze the current
status of emergy ecological footprint of Guangdong's foreign trade which is divided into
biological resource account, energy account, and industrial products account from the year 2008
to 2018. The results show the trade of biological resources account and energy account are
ecological reserve and the trade of industrial products is ecological deficit, which means the
trade is coordinated with ecological environment in biological resources account and energy
account and is not coordinated with ecological environment in industrial products accounts .We
also propose that the coordinated development of Guangdong’s foreign trade and the ecological
environment needs to focus on the protection of cropland, grazing land, forest land, fishing
ground, the improvement of energy efficiency, increasing investment in high-tech research and
development, strengthen the pollution control and other aspects
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