title: [Ecological carrying capacity and Chongming Island's ecological construction].
abstract: This paper overviewed the goals of Chongming Island's ecological construction and its background, analyzed the current eco-economic status and constraints of the Island, and put forward some scientific issues on its ecological construction. It was suggested that for the resources-saving and sustainable development of the Island, the researches on its ecological construction should be based on its ecological carrying capacity, fully take the regional characteristics into consideration, and refer the successful development modes at home and abroad. The carrying capacity study should ground on systemic and dynamic views, give a thorough evaluation of the Island's present carrying capacity, simulate its possible changes, and forecast its demands and risks. Operable countermeasures to promote the Island's carrying capacity should be worked out, new industry structure, population scale, and optimized distribution projects conforming to regional carrying capacity should be formulated, and effective ecological security alarming and control system should be built, with the aim of providing suggestions and strategic evidences for the decision-making of economic development and sustainable environmental resources use of the region.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization & Ecological Restoration, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China. Wangky@cib.ac.cn
authors.forename: Kaiyun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chunjing
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Zhenghong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Tianhou
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaoyong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004463:Ecology / Q000191:economics; D017753:Ecosystem; D004779:Environment Design; D005843:Geography; D007221:Industry / Q000191:economics*