The Korea Local Administration Review

The purpose of this study is to measure environmental capacity of localgovernments in Chungbuk Province (CP) using ecological footprint (EF). Thisstudy gathered environmental capacity data, which are composed of manyenvironmental indicators in four categories such as food, building, forest, andenergy, on 12 local governments in CP. As a result of calculation, the EF ofChungbuk Province was 4,18gha, and Danyang-city had highest EF(19.079gha).This study categorizes the local governments according to their environmentalcharacteristics using Euclidean distance and presents environmental characteristicsof each local government on the x, y coordinates using factor analysis and multidimensionalscaling method in order to figure out the similarity of environmentalcharacteristics of each local government. Based upon these analyses, this studycategorized local governments into four main groups reflecting its environmentalcapacities and characteristics and provided the tailored environmental policyalternatives on each group.