区域资源环境承载力的评价理论及方法讨论

人类对资源环境承载力的认知不断深化,并且受到人类需求和外界胁迫的综合影响.当人类的生存发展主要依靠本地资源供给、受本地环境条件限制时,资源环境承载力主要由主导限制因子决定.随着可持续发展和环境保护理念的引入,资源环境承载力逐渐由供给限制转为以需求支撑为主,并出现了以容量、阈值、强度和能力等来表征资源环境承载力的表达形式...

Evaluation theory and method of regional resources and environmental carrying capacity.

Our understanding of resources and environmental carrying capacity is deepened with the comprehensive effects of human needs and external stress. When human survival and development mainly depend on the supply of local resources and environmental conditions, the resources and environmental carrying capacity is largely controled by the dominant limiting factors. With sustainable development and environmental protection, the resources and environmental carrying capacity has gradually changed from supply restriction to demand support. There is an expression of capacity, threshold, intensity, and ability to characterize the resources and environmental carrying capacity. The impact of climate change and human activities on the resource and environmental system is increasing, altering resources and environmental carrying capacity. At present, the interrelationship and internal mechanism among resource and environmental carrying capacity, ecosystem vulnerability, and climate change risk are still unclear, which restricts the further development of theory and method. We preliminarily summarized and discussed the basic theory and method system of the research on carrying capacity of regional resources and environment. Furthermore, we advocated to develop the cascade relations of “carrying capacity of biological population development-carrying capacity of environmental stress in ecosystems-natural resources supply carrying capacity-natural environment carrying capacity-carrying capacity of social and economic development”. Moreover, the calculation method and conceptual model of multi-dimensional resource and environmental carrying capacity were put forward under each concept framework. This study provided new ideas for the research on the method of resources and environment carrying capacity.