近年来煤炭产业的快速发展，带来了严重的环境问题。煤矿建设、煤炭开采、加工、储运、利用的各个环节都会消耗资源并且排出废弃物。生态足迹评价法和生命周期评价法分别从“面积”和“重量”的角度量化研究经济系统对环境的影响程度，将这两种方法引入煤炭产业，为我们全面和量化分析煤炭对环境的影响提供了崭新的思路。 本文在深入研究生态足迹和生命周期评价方法的基础上，以山西黄柏煤矿和陕西黄陵煤矿为例，首先界定了煤炭生命周期系统边界，分析了每个环节的资源输入和环境污染输出，并将其转化成相应的生态生产性土地面积进行计算。最终从生态足迹数值、评价环节和土地占用类型等方面对计算结果进行了分析，提出了测评和比较煤炭环境影响的分析方法，为量化煤炭产业对环境的影响提供了途径，为煤矿可持续发展提供了科学的策略依据。 经过计算，黄柏煤矿万吨煤生态足迹为3.6757hm2，黄陵煤矿为1.6359hm2。黄柏煤矿原煤万元产值生态足迹为0.037hm2，黄陵煤矿为0.017hm2。说明黄陵煤矿万吨煤所占用的生态生产性土地面积要少，和黄柏煤矿相比，黄陵煤矿更具有可持续发展性。煤炭生命周期环节中，开采和加工过程所占的生态足迹组分较大；所占用的生态生产性土地类型中，水资源地、林地、建筑用地比例较大，这主要由于工业用水量大、木材消耗多、电力能耗大造成的。 从生态足迹分析的角度看，物质、能源减量化是减少生态资源消耗和占用、从源头控制环境压力的有效措施，并应将循环经济应用于矿区发展中，实施生态补偿政策，开展清洁生产技术。

The booming development of the coal industry results in serious environment problems. Actually, all of the links, including coal mine construction, coal mining, producing, storage and transportation, as well as coal utilization, need consumption of resources and cause discharge of pollutants.As we know, ecological footprint and life cycle assessment are proposed to quantifiably investigate the influence of economic system on environment in the respects of area and quantity. Once both introduced into coal industry, it will provide novel methods to analyze influence of coal system on environment. In the paper, based on ecological footprint and life cycle assessment, HuangBai coal mine and HuangLing coal mine are collected as the targets to analyze influence of coal system on environment. First，life cycle system boundary of the coal is defined and resources input and environmental pollutants output in each links are analyzed, and then are converted to ecological productive land area to conduct the further calculation. Finally, the result date are analyzed in three aspects including ecological footprint values, assessing process and land type, further providing a model to analyze and compare the coal environmental influence and giving a scientific strategy for sustainable development of mine. The results show that, the ecological footprints of HuangBai and HuangLing coal mine are 3.6757hm2 and 1.6359hm2 per ten thousand tons respectively. The ecological footprints of coal production for HuangBai and HuangLing coal mine are 0.037hm2 and 0.017hm2. which illuminates that HuangLing coal mine possesses more sustainable progress with less ecological productive land area than that of HuangBai coal mine. In life cycle link of coal, the ecological footprints in coal mining and producing process are larger. When it comes to land type, water resource land, forest land and construction land all have a significant proportion due to the high consumption of water, wood and electric power. From the analysis of ecological footprint, reduction of material and energy are the effective measures to cut down the consumption and occupation of ecological resource and to control the environmental pressure from the source. Reduction of material and energy and circular economy are all involved in the development of mine, which show a promising way to carry out ecological compensation polices and clean production technology.