Ecological Footprint Inequality across Countries: The Role of Environment Intensity, Income and Interaction Effects

Duro, Juan Antonio; Teixidó-Figueras, Jordi

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2155693

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“…In a dynamic context, concepts like exploitation, colonization, migration or the shaping of general inequality can be demonstrated in a new way by using the Intenscope. Relationships that have economic components and consequences in the context of sustainability, which could not be discussed in this paper, include economic growth, degrowth (van den Bergh, 2011) and income (Kuzyk, 2011, Duro and Teixidó-Figueras, 2013, Weinzettel et al, 2013 can also be refined using IS-analysis.…”

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“…At the end of the paper we briefly describe and discuss some critiques of the Ecological Footprint; the nature of the notions of urban and rural; the strategic role of integrating preferences and settlement attributions into the analysis and the political dimensions of assuming voluntary or involuntary positions with resource use. It is important 5 to note that related economic-monetary (Latouche, 2010, Willemen, 2010, Duro and Teixidó-Figueras, 2013 and hedonic (Kerekes, 2011, Kopmann and Rehdanz, 2013, MacKerron and Mourato, 2013 considerations are omitted from this approach. Their involvement is important for further analysis and for obtaining a more comprehensive answer to the research question at hand (Kocsis, 2012), but their omission here is necessary for reasons of clarity and because of the frequent unavailability of comprehensive and reliable estimates.…”

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Is the Netherlands sustainable as a global-scale inner-city? Intenscoping spatial sustainability

Kocsis¹

2014

Ecological Economics

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Is the Netherlands sustainable or not? The answer inherently involves addressing the issues of system boundaries, statistical units and a vision of sustainability. As an analytical answer we offer the Intenscope (IS), a two-dimensional graphical tool based on dimensionless percentages of triple rate ratios which overcomes several limitations of sustainability analyses. First, it is not sensitive to the size of statistical units so an area with twice the amount of resources of another, with double the population (and double the total consumption) would have the same triple ratio of population:biocapacity:consumption.Second, the IS is sensitive to anomalies which may originate either from the use of arbitrary statistical units (e.g. the boundaries of a city) or those which may indicate truly unsustainable practices. To judge spatial sustainability we use ecological footprint data from which we construct a plausible country plot based on the IS. Despite the relative nature of IS-analyses, the employed consumption:biocapacity ratio inherently refers to the absolute limit of sustainability: we cannot continually use more resources on a global scale than nature provides us with. The analysis introduces some associations of human preferences and attributions of settlement types which may help to elaborate sustainability policies based on voluntary action.

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Is the Netherlands sustainable as a global-scale inner-city? Intenscoping spatial sustainability

Kocsis¹

2014

Ecological Economics

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“…Hitherto, spatial distributional analyses of natural resource consumption have dealt with inequality (White, 2007;Steinberger et al, 2010;Hedenus and Azar, 2005;Dongjing et al, 2010;Duro and Teixidó-Figueras, 2013) rather than polarization 1 . This paper, however, considers distributional conflict such as the one which emerges from world-system analyses of the core-periphery relationship (Wallerstein, 1974(Wallerstein, -1989.…”

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Spatial Polarization of the Ecological Footprint Distribution

Teixidó-Figueras

Duro

2014

Ecological Economics

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The international allocation of natural resources is determined, not by any ethical or ecological criteria, but by the dominance of market mechanisms. From a core-periphery perspective, this allocation may even be driven by historically determined structural patterns, with a core group of countries whose consumption appropriates most available natural resources, and another group, having low natural resource consumption, which plays a peripheral role. This article consists of an empirical distributional analysis of natural resource consumption (as measured by Ecological Footprints) whose purpose is to assess the extent to which the distribution of consumption responds to polarization (as opposed to mere inequality). To assess this, we estimate and decompose different polarization indices for a balanced sample of 119 countries over the period 1961 to 2007. Our results points toward a polarized distribution which is consistent with a core-periphery framework.

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“…Regional sustainable development must depend on sustainable development of ecological environment. On one hand, the ecological environment is the spatial carrier of regional social and economic activities (Duro and Teixido-Figueras, 2013;Stokols et al, 2013). On the other hand, it provides natural resources and assimilates all the wastes for regional development (Jin et al, 2009;Menconi et al, 2013).…”

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Regional sustainability assessment and its sensitivity analysis based on ecological footprint model: A case study of Xingguo County in China

Xie¹,

Liu²,

Wang³

et al. 2014

Sci. Res. Essays

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Based on the Ecological Footprint Model, a Sustainability Index is put forward to measure the degree of regional sustainable development. Using correlation and sensitivity analysis, this study explored the level of sustainable development in the Xingguo County of China from 1996 to 2005, and revealed the driving factors of human activities on sustainable development. The results indicate that the consumption footprint of biological resources in the study area shows a slow, fluctuating upward trend. The increasing ratio of ecological carrying capacity is greater than that of per capita ecological carrying capacity. The values of the sustainable index range from 0.5 to 0.6 (which means unsafe), and it shows a slowly increasing trend. This indicates that the rate of population growth is faster than that of ecological recovery and improvement, which is beyond the bearing capacity of the ecological environment. The Sustainability Index in the study area has a significantly positive correlation with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) urbanization level and this has a significantly negative correlation with the proportion of primary industry. The Sustainability Index in the study area is more sensitive to population growth, followed by a decrease in primary industries.

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Ecological Footprint Inequality across Countries: The Role of Environment Intensity, Income and Interaction Effects

Abstract: Recently, White (2007) analysed the international inequalities in Ecological

Cited by 17 publications

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Is the Netherlands sustainable as a global-scale inner-city? Intenscoping spatial sustainability

Is the Netherlands sustainable as a global-scale inner-city? Intenscoping spatial sustainability

Spatial Polarization of the Ecological Footprint Distribution

Regional sustainability assessment and its sensitivity analysis based on ecological footprint model: A case study of Xingguo County in China

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