Articles

A STUDY ON THE QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH OF REGIONAL CARRYING CAPACITY

Expand
  • Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101,China

Received date: 2000-12-14

  Revised date: 2001-02-10

  Online published: 2001-08-01

Abstract

Regional Carrying Capacity (RCC)means the population and corresponding economic and social activities that the regional resources and environmenta
l capacity could carry ,within a confined temporospatial limits and under the condition of ensuring rational exploitation of resources and without deteriorating the environment. Being an important symbol to weigh the Regional Sustainable Development, the Regional Carrying Capacity  evolved from resource carrying capacity and environmental carrying capacity. Based on the summing-up of the research on carrying capacity of land ,water and key mineral resources at home and abroad and the research methods of environmental carrying capacity and regional carrying capacity, this paper puts forward a basic method of state space to measure the regional carrying capacity. It is the incomplete anastomose and existent divagation between practical regional carrying status and ideal regional carrying capacity in state space that induce three states of over-loading, full-loading and proper-loading. The authors put forward a method to describe quantitatively the regional carrying status and formula of computing the ideal states of regional carrying capacity sometime. This paper constructs RCC indicator system which includes the pressure index, support index and inter-region communication index and uses the weigh distribution method of entropy value .Based on the above-mentioned research, the paper evaluates quantitatively the regional carrying capacity, predicts and simulates the development tendency of the Regional Carrying Capacity and the Regional Carrying States the region surrounding Bahai Bay by the agency of System Dynamics.

Cite this article

MAO Hanying,YU Danlin . A STUDY ON THE QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH OF REGIONAL CARRYING CAPACITY[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2001 , 16(4) : 549 -555 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2001.04.0549

References

[1] Allan W A.Studies in African Land Usage in  Northern Rhodesia, Rhodes Livingstone Papers and No.15[M].Cape Town :Oxford University Press,1949.
[2] Conklin Harod. Population-land balance under systems of tropical forest agriculture[A]. In: Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association[C]. Bangkok, Thailand, 1957.63.
[3] Carneiro Robert. Slash-and Burn Agriculture: A Closer Looks at its Implications for Settlement Patterns, Men and Cultures[M]. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960. 229-234.
[4] Gourou Pierre.The Tropical World (4th ed)[M]. New York:Ronald Press, 1966.
[5] Brush Stephen.The concept of carrying capacity for systems of shifting cultivation[J].American Anthropologist, 1975,77(4):799-811.
[6] Millington R, Gifford R, et al. Energy and How We Live[M].Australian UNESCO Seminar, Committee for Man and Biosphere, 1973.
[7] The Group of the Research of Land Resource Throughput and Population Carrying Quantity in China.The Research of Land Resource Throughput and Population Carrying Quantity in China [M].Beijing:China Renmin University Press,1991.[中国土地资源生产能力及人口承载量研究课题组.中国土地资源生产能力及人口承载量研究[M].北京:中国人民大学出版社,1991.]
[8] Yang Xiaopeng,Zhang Zhiliang.The system dynamics study on the population carrying capacity of land in Qinghat Province[J]. Scientia Geographica Sinica,1993,13(1):69-77. [杨晓鹏,张志良.青海省土地资源人口承载量系统动力学研究[J].地理科学, 1993,13(1):69-77.]
[9] Deng Yongxin .The system and research on population carrying capacity[J].Arid Zone Research, 1994,11(2):28-34.[邓永新.人口承载力系统及其研究——以塔里木盆地为例[J].干旱区研究, 1994,11(2):28-34.]
[10]Liu Yanhua, ed. The Rational utilization of Water Resource and Environmental Protection in Qiadam Basin [M]. Beijing: Science Press, 2000.204-212. [刘燕华主编.柴达木盆地水资源合理利用与生态环境保护[M].北京:科学出版社,2000.204-212.]
[11]Xu Xinyi,ed.The Theories and Methods on Macro-economic Water Resource Planning in North China Region[M].Beijing :Yellow River Water Conservancy Press,1997.[许新宜主编.华北地区宏观经济水资源规划理论与方法[M].郑州:黄河水利出版社,1997.]
[12]Xu Qiang. An exploration of several problems about the analysis of regional mineral resources carrying capacity[J].Journal of Natural Resources, 1996,11(2):135-140.[徐强.区域矿产资源承载能力分析几个问题的探讨[J].自然资源学报, 1996,11(2):135-140.]
[13] Bishop A, Fullerton, Crawford A.Carrying Capacity in Regional Environment Management[M]. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974.
[14] Schneider D. The Carrying Capacity Concept as a Planning Tool[M]. Chicago: American Planning Association, 1978.
[15] IUCN/UNEP/WWF.Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living[M]. IUCN, Switzerland, 1991.
[16] Ye Wenghu,Mei Fengqiao, Guan Boren .The theory and science significance of carrying capacity[J].Research on Environmental Science,1992,5(suppl):108-111.[叶文虎,梅凤桥,关伯仁.环境承载力理论及其科学意义[J].环境科学研究,1992,5(增刊):108-111.]
[17] Tang Jianwu,Guo Huaicheng,Ye Wenhu. Environmental carrying capacity and its application on environmental planning [J].China Environmental Science, 1997,17(1):6-9 .[唐剑武,郭怀成,叶文虎.环境承载力及其在环境规划中的初步应用[J].中国环境科学,1997,17(1):1997,PP6-9.]
[18] Peng Zaide ,Yang Kai, Wang Yun.The primary exploring of the research method of AESC[J].China Environmental Science,1996.16(1):6-9.[彭再德,杨凯,王云.区域环境承载力研究方法初探[J].中国环境科学,1996,16(1):6-9.]
[19]Meadows D H.The Limits to Growth[M] .Beijing :The Commercial Press,1984.[梅多斯著.增长的极限[M].于树生译.北京:商务印书馆,1984.]
[20] Sleeser M.Enhancement of Carrying Capacity Options ECCO[M]. The Resource Use Institute, 1990.
[21] Wang Xuejun. A preliminary study on potential population supporting capacity of geographical environment and its regional difference[J].Scientia Geographica Sinica, 1992,12(4):322-327.[王学军.地理环境人口承载潜力及其区际差异[J].地理科学,1992,12(4):322-327.]
[22] CAS Sustainable Development Research Group. The Report of Sustainable Development  Strategy in China[M] .Beijing: Science Press,2000.[中国科学院可持续发展研究组.2000中国可持续发展战略报告[M].北京:科学出版社,2000.]
[23] Lu Wendai,Zhu Yili, Sha Jie,[WT6BX]et al, [WT6BZ]eds. SPSS for Windows: from ABC to Master[M].Beijing: Electronics Industry Press, 1998.[卢文岱,朱一力,沙捷,等编著,SPSS for Windows:从入门到精通[M].北京:电子工业出版社,1998.]
[24] Guo Xianguang. Application of improved entropy method in evaluation of economic result [J].System Engineering-Theory & Practice, 1998,(12):98-102.[郭显光.改进的熵值法及其在经济效益评价中的应用[J].系统工程理论与实践,1998,(12):98-102.]

Outlines

/