Ecological Footprint: Informative and evolving – A response to van den Bergh and Grazi (2014)

Lin, David; Wackernagel, Mathis; Galli, Alessandro; Kelly, Ronna

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.05.001

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“…Some academics have argued that the Ecological Footprint is nothing more than an attention grabbing tool (Moffatt, 2000), and does not provide decision-makers with a useful tool for decision-making due to a limited understanding of how different consumer activities relate to impact (see Ayres, 2000;Ferng, 2002;van den Burgh & Verbruggen, 1999). A response to these criticisms has been published by Goldfinger, Wackernagel, Iha, Lazarus, and Lin (2014) ;Lin, Wackernagel, Galli, and Kelly (2015) and Galli (2015).…”

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Measuring and managing the environmental impact of festivals: the contribution of the Ecological Footprint

Collins

Cooper

2016

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This paper assesses the contribution of the Ecological Footprint as a method for estimating the environmental impact of festivals. It responds to calls for more rigorous methods to assess the environmental impacts of festivals, and contributes towards providing festival organisers and policy-makers with a more balanced evaluation of their outcomes. This paper focuses on the 2012 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts (Wales, United Kingdom), and describes how the Ecological Footprint was used to calculate the environmental impact of its visitors. It also considers the potential value of the Ecological Footprint as a method for evaluating alternative strategies designed to improve the environmental sustainability of festivals. The paper demonstrates that Ecological Footprint analysis can provide valuable information for festival organisers and policy-makers on factors influencing the scale of a festivals' environmental impact, and the types of strategies needed to reduce the effect of visitor travel.

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Section: The Ecological Footprintmentioning

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Measuring and managing the environmental impact of festivals: the contribution of the Ecological Footprint

Collins

Cooper

2016

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…As a newly developed methodology, the policy relevance of ecological footprint theory remains the subject of debate2232333544. One of the potential impacts of our method is to inform the range and location of biocapacity for sustainable development.…”

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Biocapacity optimization in regional planning

Guo

Yue

et al. 2017

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Ecological overshoot has been accelerating across the globe. Optimizing biocapacity has become a key to resolve the overshoot of ecological demand in regional sustainable development. However, most literature has focused on reducing ecological footprint but ignores the potential of spatial optimization of biocapacity through regional planning of land use. Here we develop a spatial probability model and present four scenarios for optimizing biocapacity of a river basin in Northwest China. The potential of enhanced biocapacity and its effects on ecological overshoot and water consumption in the region were explored. Two scenarios with no restrictions on croplands and water use reduced the overshoot by 29 to 53%, and another two scenarios which do not allow croplands and water use to increase worsened the overshoot by 11 to 15%. More spatially flexible transition rules of land use led to higher magnitude of change after optimization. However, biocapacity optimization required a large amount of additional water resources, casting considerable pressure on the already water-scarce socio-ecological system. Our results highlight the potential for policy makers to manage/optimize regional land use which addresses ecological overshoot. Investigation on the feasibility of such spatial optimization complies with the forward-looking policies for sustainable development and deserves further attention.

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“…Area is the underlying dimension of the environmental footprint method so the more area a process needs to fulfill a service, the more it cost from sustainable point of view. EF index is used to compare human's demands against the biosphere ability to renew (Lin, 2015). One of the EF family's index method is called sustainable process index (SPI) which can effectively be used for assessing of ecological hotspots and finding alternate environment friendly solutions in the life cycle of a process (Maier, 2016).…”

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“…Environmental footprint is used for evaluation of human's demand according finite amount of biologically productive space (Lin, 2015). The concept of environmental footprint (EF) is based on the evaluation of physical area which is needed to sustain a certain process, whether it is an economic, industrial or farming.…”

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Evaluation of environmental footprint of wheeled tractors

Biekša¹,

Kuliešis²

2017

Management Theory and Studies for Rural Business and Infrastructure Development

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Effective management of agricultural machinery helps to save financial and material resour-ces, and also reduces environmental pollution. Traditional environmental impact assessment me-thods do not involve the life cycle analysis, so environmental footprint method can help to evaluate farming, identifying threats and measures of mitigation the negative impacts. Growing amount of tractors used in agricultural sector increase the negative impacts to environment, so it becomes im-portant to properly assess farming. The aim of this paper is to determine the environmental footprint of wheeled tractors of Lithuanian farmers and agricultural companies and its development trends using sustainable process index method. The object of the research is the environmental footprint of wheeled tractors used for farming in Lithuania. Investigation showed that field works of tractors ac-counts the largest share of the total environmental footprint. Environmental footprint of tractors’ field works mainly depends from the type of fuel used which is directly dependent on the tractor's power and workload, consequently a change of fuel type, tractor type and work load can reduce en-vironmental footprint of tractors.

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Ecological Footprint: Informative and evolving – A response to van den Bergh and Grazi (2014)

Cited by 41 publications

References 39 publications

Measuring and managing the environmental impact of festivals: the contribution of the Ecological Footprint

Measuring and managing the environmental impact of festivals: the contribution of the Ecological Footprint

Biocapacity optimization in regional planning

Evaluation of environmental footprint of wheeled tractors

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