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An Evaluation of Urban Sustainability using by EFA : Cases in Busan Metropolitan City

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2004, 15(3), pp.-
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

Kyungjoo Moon 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

Ecological Footprint Analysis(EFA) has been given much attention and widely praised as effective heuristic and pedagogic device for current total human resource use in a way that communicates easily to almost everyone since 1996 when Wackernagel and Rees proposed it as a tool for planning toward sustainability. This study is to analyze the sustainability in Busan City by EFA and then to explore the guideline toward sustainable city. The results of this study are as follows. First, the per capita footprint of Busan citizens in 2002 increases 123% , as compared with that in 1995, in spite of the decrease in population . Second, the per caipta footprint in 2002 exceeded the terrestrial footprint of Busan by 2.89 ha, the residents of Busan continously appropriate the productive output of a land area nearly 143 times lager than the geographical area of their municipality to support their consumer lifestyle. Third , the ecological deficit index of Busan in 2002 is 24,817%, this result shows that Busan is ruuning a massive 'ecological deficit' with the rest of Korea and World. The development programes which have been planned to exploit productive land areas in Busan by urban government are expected to degrade the productive ecosystem of Earth as well as that of Busan.

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