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Sustainable Development 可持续发展, 2015, 5, 57-66 Published Online July 2015 in Hans. /journal/sd /10.12677/sd.2015.53009 Ecological Footprint of Tianmen City Bingqiao Xiong, Jing Ye, Wenna Zhang Faculty of Resources and Environment Science, Hubei University, Wuhan Hubei Email: 502854200@ th th th Received: Jun. 15 , 2015; accepted: Jul. 10 , 2015; published: Jul. 13 , 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract As a method to measure the effect of environment, ecological footprint can assess the sustainable development level of a certain region. In this paper, we give an introduction to the concept of eco- logical footprint and computing modeling. Then, we take Tianmen City as a case study and assess its development situation from 2009 to 2013 by ecological footprint theory. The result showed that the per capita ecological footprint of Tianmen City increased 13.63% and the per capita eco- logical capacity increased 2.1% in the 5 years. This region had been in ecological deficit and in- 2 2 creased by 21.24% from 0.66686 hm to 0.80852 hm . The per capita ecological footprint and per capita GDP kept increasing, while the ecological footprint of ten thousand yuan GDP presented a downward trend. In addition to these analyses, the ecological footprint of Tianmen was beyond the available ecological capacity, and the ecological environment was at risk. The available meas- ures for the sustainable development of Tianmen city in the future were put forward. Keywords Ecolo