Accounting for demand and supply of the biosphere's regenerative capacity: The National Footprint Accounts’ underlying methodology and framework

Borucke, Michael; Moore, David; Cranston, Gemma; Gracey, Kyle; Iha, Katsunori; Larson, Joy; Lazarus, Elias; Morales, Juan Carlos; Wackernagel, Mathis; Galli, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.08.005

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“…The built-up land represents constructed areas like cities. Uptake land is an expression for the demand on waste disposal in equivalent CO 2 emissions to be taken up by vegetation and also referred to as the energy footprint (Borucke et al 2013).…”

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“…Environmental footprints quantify the human demand on the natural environment and have the advantage that they can be linked to the (theoretical) carrying capacity of our earth's ecosystems (Borucke et al 2013;Global Footprint Network 2012;Hoekstra and Wiedmann 2014). This is crucial as development can only be deemed sustainable if it stays within the (global) boundary conditions of the ecological environment and/or the world budget constraint (Lianos 2013).…”

Section: The Ecological Footprintmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent research makes clear that humanity's pressures on the environment are currently unsustainable (Hoekstra and Wiedmann 2014;Steffen et al 2015a, b). One of the most advanced concepts and measures available that quantifies human demands on the ecological environment is the Ecological Footprint (Borucke et al 2013;Global Footprint Network 2012;Hoekstra and Wiedmann 2014).…”

Section: The Ecological Footprintmentioning

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“…It captures the productive capacity of nature to provide resources for consumption (provisioning services) and its capacity as a sink to take up waste (regulating services; Ewing et al 2010). More specifically, biocapacity represents a measure of the amount of biologically productive land and sea area available to provide the ecosystem services that humanity consumes-our ecological budget or nature's regenerative capacity (Borucke et al 2013). The EF is quantified by multiplying the productive area (standardized to global hectares) with the specific domestic yield factor of a country (Global Footprint Network 2012).…”

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The effects of globalization on Ecological Footprints: an empirical analysis

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Whether globalization is sustainable is a contested issue. The quantitative literature on the Maastricht Globalization Index (MGI) and the KOF index of globalization shows that globalization contributes positively to economic and human development, environmental performance, mortality, gender equality and physical integrity rights. However, globalization also drives within-country income inequality, especially in developing countries. Evidence on the effects of globalization on the ecological environment does not provide clear patterns; various dimensions of globalization have different effects on various pollutants. This article analyzes the statistical relationship between the most recent MGI (2012 edition) and the ecological dimension of sustainable development. The latter will be operationalized by considering four variants of the Ecological Footprint. The relation between globalization and sustainable development will be controlled for GDP per capita as a proxy for affluence and report the results for Pearson's correlations and multivariate regressions for up to 171 countries. We conclude that the overall index of globalization significantly increases the Ecological Footprint of consumption, exports and imports. The decomposition of globalization into different domains reveals that apart from the political dimension, all dimensions drive human pressures and demands on the environment. Globalization needs to go into new directions if it is to make a contribution toward all aspects of sustainable development.

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Section: The Ecological Footprintmentioning

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Section: The Ecological Footprintmentioning

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Section: The Ecological Footprintmentioning

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The effects of globalization on Ecological Footprints: an empirical analysis

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“…This type of analysis is similar to ecological footprint analysis where available land is compared to land area needed to supply resource uses and assimilate emissions of product systems. 4 Using LCA combined with carrying capacity based normalisation has an advantage over the ecological footprint method in that it covers a much broader spectrum of environmental interferences, rooted in the strong methodological development activities in the field of life cycle impact assessment, and is linked to comprehensive inventory databases of unit processes.…”

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