Environmental pressure indicators of sustainable development and their applications

Author: Gu Xiaowei
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: This book is based on the methods of social metabolism material flow and ecological footprint, as well as relevant indicators, proposing and constructing an index system for the total environmental pressure and pressure gradient of a country. This system includes domestic environmental load, domestic ecological footprint, environmental pressure, footprint intensity index, and ecological overshoot index. By combining these new indicators with national economic total indicators, the book derives an environmental efficiency index for economic operation.