Research on Eco-Campus and its Evaluation Method

Abstract

With expansion of enrollment scale, many universities make a large-scale expansion of their campus in recent years, which has caused a series of ecological problems, such as excessive occupation of land, destruction of local ecological environment. It is necessary to provide ecological level assessment and guidance for this eco-campus construction. Based upon the present related research at home and abroad and according to the basic principles of ecology, we have given a clear definition of ecological campus after considering the functional requirements for university campus at first, and then build an ecological campus evaluation index system in which the landscape ecology and the ecological footprint theory have been combined and clear the scoring method of each index. The index system includes five aspects: campus environmental quality, pollutant emissions, resource allocation and utilization, humanity landscape and greening, environmental awareness and environmental education. Furthermore, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is applied to this system to obtain the relative combined weights of every index which has passed the combined verify of coherence. Then the multi-factor comprehensive evaluation method was adopted to calculate ecological level index of eco-campus. At the end of this paper the main campus of Jinan University has been taken as an example application analysis of the index system.