Ecological footprint — a tool for assessing sustainable energy supplies

Stöglehner, Gernot

doi:10.1016/s0959-6526(02)00046-x

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“…The EF is an indicator that considers the energy and raw materials fluxes to and from any particular system, converting them into spaces of land or water necessary by nature for producing and/or assimilating these fluxes. Although EF was firstly developed to account for the consumption of natural resources depending on the lifestyle of nations and regions [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18], improved methodologies allow the application of the EF to a wide variety of sectors and activities [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Pressure of nations on marine ecosystems has also been assessed by modified EF methodologies [6,[31][32][33].…”

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Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

Lopes

Antelo

Franco‐Uría

et al. 2013

Ecological Indicators

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Sustainability of the fisheries sector is nowadays a key issue due to the significant impact that this activity may have on the environment. Besides fishing activity itself, other indirect impacts, like those originated from related activities and services also need to be addressed. For assessing the environmental burden of this sector, the indicator Ecological Footprint (EF) can be used. The application of EF to the fisheries sector is still uncommon and studies of associated activities (like ports) even more. In this work, classical EF methodology was applied in order to evaluate the environmental impact of the fisheries sector, taking as a representative sample the global activity (fishing and transportation) of the Port of Vigo (Spain), one of the biggest fishing ports in the world. A high value of total EF for both port and fishing activities was obtained.However, relative EF is much higher in the case of fishing, due to the low natural productivity associated to fish resources. Most of footprint land-components pressure was on energy-land and sea area, being resources consumption the principal category contributing to EF values in all the evaluated scenarios.

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confidence: 99%

Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

Lopes

Antelo

Franco‐Uría

et al. 2013

Ecological Indicators

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“…In order to provide more detailed information for decision-makers, we should continue to calculate EFs of different industries in different regions of China in the future. Some regions in the world have done some such research successfully (Gössling et al 2002;IWM and BFF 2002;Stöglehner 2003;Barrett and Simmons 2003;Muñiz and Galindo 2005), and the more detailed the information, the better it is for the decision-making. …”

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Temporal and spatial assessment of natural resource use in China using ecological footprint method

Chen¹,

Wang²,

Zhang³

et al. 2006

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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“…This underestimation of the carbon sequestration area in the calculations of the EF gives the impression that biocapacity has grown as a result of industrialization [15]. In Section 3.1, it is suggested therefore that CO 2 emissions should be limited to the absorption of CO 2 by sustainable sinks, such as the lithosphere [16]. Thus, carbon must not be burned at a higher rate than it is absorbed by lithosphere.…”

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“…In Spain, this ratio dropped from 6.1 in the year 1950/51 to 1.27 in 1999 [18]. This input (which may be a large part of total output) is not subtracted from the output of intensive land use, resulting in an EF value which is far too small [16]. Taking into account the indirect upstream fossil fuel use of agriculture by considering all human CO 2 emissions does not compensate for this neglect of subtraction, since the CO 2 absorption areas evaluated in the EF are too small, because they do not store carbon permanently.…”

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Development of Ecological Footprint to an Essential Economic and Political Tool

Aubauer

2011

Sustainability

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This paper shows how the concept of the Ecological Footprint can be developed by incorporating the six procedures listed below, to create a single indicator of just distribution of the limited natural resources, between and within generations, and become a benchmark for decision-making between alternatives of consumption, life-styles and economic policies. Using this new tool, it should be possible to label every commodity, service and natural resource with the share it claims of the Earth's surface. This, in turn, can enable the integration of natural limits into the economy through the complete internalization of costs within market prices, while also reducing resource throughput fairly and quickly without an undue loss in GNP. The six procedures are as follows: First, operating within the boundaries of the sustainable local yields of the biologically productive soil and water areas, without any input of non-renewable resources, particularly fossil fuels; Second, taking spatial variations of this yield into account; Third, considering only sustainable CO 2 -sinks; Fourth, including every exploitation of nature, for instance all material flows; Fifth, taking care of intertemporal effects and depletion; and sixth, preserving the natural habitats necessary for the survival of biodiversity, bearing the species/area relationship in mind.

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Ecological footprint — a tool for assessing sustainable energy supplies

Cited by 129 publications

References 7 publications

Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

Temporal and spatial assessment of natural resource use in China using ecological footprint method

Development of Ecological Footprint to an Essential Economic and Political Tool

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