| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 文化資產研究所 === 97 === The ecological footprint is a sustainability indicator which has been developed in the
late twentieth century. It is a measurement tool to transfer “Resource consumption” to land area. It has been widely adopted in the world because the outcome of the assessment is easy to read. Recently the ecological footprint has been broadly used in the UK’s local authorities,
they use “local ecological footprint” as a policy assessment, environmental impact assessment, planning and design aid tools.
Urban planning is a work to planning the future which is to face the next five decades,
next centuries or even the longer future. Today, human facing rapidly population growth and worsening environmental problems people needs more wise to tackle the environmental problems, to determine their utilization of resources. The “local ecological footprint” is a tool that using personal data of a living to calculate the footprint ,hence we can understand the real
consumption of resource in the local area.
In this study, the research resources came from Taiwan’s data in year 2006, taking “national ecological footprint” account stream into the “ Stepwise ™ ”. When calculated the ecological footprint of different urbanization areas such as: urban, city, and rural ; unexpectedly, it needs to consider from the consumer side. Finally, this research used the results from Stepwise ™ and established the "local ecological footprint" method.
Chapter 1 Describing the aims and purposes of this research;moreover, explaining why it is important to set up “ local ecological footprint”.
Chapter 2 Literature review including the development context of the eco-city, global
sustainable actions and comparing the application of different sustainability evaluation tools.
Chapter 3 Using Best Food Forward Ltd’s Stepwise ™ methodology transfer to national ecological footprint.
Chapter 4 Research proofing : Using the outcome of “National ecological footprint” to prove the result of “Stepwise ™ “ method then using “local ecological footprint” from consumption-side induction the data of “Stepwise ™” The results of different urbanization ecological footprint in 2006 were :urban 6.313 (gha), town 5.078 (gha), Rural 4.800 (gha).
Chapter 5 Focus on the development of eco-city, reviewing the methodology of local ecological footprint and providing recommendations.
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