中文摘要：

我国“生态文明建设”战略的提出，要求全社会对经济发展的追求，必须与自然生态的承载能力相协调。区域作为区域经济子系统和自然生态子系统构成的复合多维系统，不仅在空间上承载了社会经济的发展，也支撑了我国生态文明建设的区域实现。区域经济增长的本质是人造资本与自然资本的反向增长，其引发区域经济子系统扩张的同时也造成了区域自然资本的减少，并可能进一步引发区域自然生态子系统在空间或功能上的损失，形成区域经济增长的成本。在生态文明建设时期，区域的发展不能单纯考虑经济子系统产出的量的增加，而应关注区域系统的整体收益，控制经济增长于合理规模之内，建立区域经济子系统与自然生态子系统之间的合理平衡。

英文摘要：

Economic growth is the eternal theme of regional development, but with ＂Promotion of Ecological Civilization＂ in view, we find it necessary to coordinate economic development with the harmonious evolution of nature ecology. As the regional economic system is a component of the overall regional system, in the conversion from natural capital to man - made eapital, the expansion of the regional economic system coming with economic growth will inevitably incur the loss of regional natural ecology system in terms of space or function. In this sense economic growth is not cost - free. So with the overall regional system in mind, regional development should not be defined ex- clusively as the quantities increase in the output of economic system. Instead, priority should go to the net benefit of the overall regional system, and it follows that economic growth should be kept within a proper scale, thereby achieving the balance between regional economic system and regional natural ecology system.