Environmental Land Use and the Ecological Footprint of Higher Learning

Appiah‐Opoku, Seth; Taylor, Crystal

doi:10.5772/48191

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“…The main functions of land ecosystems were described above as the raising, bearing, warehousing and landscape functions [22]. When the land ecosystem is capable of providing acceptable service functions, the entropy and the disorder of the ecosystem decreases.…”

Section: Data Collection and Standardizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This model calculates the conversion relationship between different categories of land use in the same region at different times, thus comprehensively depicting the structure, attributes and direction of the land-use change [22]; however, it only predicts the probability of conversion of land-use categories overall, not in each grid cell. By contrast, the conversion of land use and its effects over small regions (CLUE-S) model quantitatively analyzes the relationship between the effects of land-use change on society, the economy, technology and the natural environment, which coincides with the target of the present study.…”

Section: The Clue-s Model For Land-use Transfer Probabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Land-Use Planning for Urban Sprawl Based on the CLUE-S Model: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China

Song

et al. 2013

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Abstract:In recent years, changes in land use resulting from rapid urbanization or urban sprawl have brought about many negative effects to land ecosystems, and have led to entropy increases. This study introduces the novel ideas of a planning regulation coefficient for sustainable land-use planning in order to decrease entropy, combined with the CLUE-S model to predict land-use change. Three scenarios were designed as the basis for land-use projections for Guangzhou, China, in 2015, and the changes in the land ecological service function for each scenario were predicted. The results show that, although the current land-use plan is quite reasonable, it will be necessary to further strengthen the protection of farmland and important ecological service function areas.

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Land-Use Planning for Urban Sprawl Based on the CLUE-S Model: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China

Song

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Sustainability Dimensions of the Mediterranean Diet: A Systematic Review of the Indicators Used and Its Results

Bôto

Rocha

Miguéis

et al. 2022

Advances in Nutrition

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The concern about sustainability is growing and the Mediterranean diet has been extensively identified as a promising model, with benefits for human and environmental health. This systematic review aims to identify and describe the indicators that have been used to evaluate the sustainability of the Mediterranean diet and the results from their application. A methodology using PRISMA guidelines was followed, and searches were performed in Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, and GreenFile. A total of 32 studies assessing the sustainability of the Mediterranean diet were identified. Twenty-five of these studies quantified the environmental impact, 7 studies evaluated the nutritional quality, and 12 studies assessed the daily cost of this dietary pattern. A total of 33 distinct indicators were identified, of which 10 were used to assess the environmental dimension (mainly, carbon, water, and ecological footprint), 8 were used to assess the nutritional dimension (mainly Health score and Nutrient Rich Food Index), 1 was used to assess the economic dimension (dietary cost), and 8 used combined indicators. The remaining 6 indicators for the assessment of sociocultural dimension were only identified in 1 study but were not measured. The Mediterranean diet had a lower environmental impact than Western diets and showed a carbon footprint between 0.9 and 6.88 kg CO2/d per capita, a water footprint between 600 and 5280 m3/d per capita, and an ecological footprint between 2.8 and 53.42 m2/d per capita. With regard to the nutritional dimension, the Mediterranean diet had a high nutritional quality and obtained 122 points on the Health score and ranged between 12.95 and 90.6 points on the Nutrient Rich Food Index. The cost of the Mediterranean diet is similar to other diets and varied between 3.33 and 14.42€/d per capita. These findings show that no uniformity in assessing the MDiet's sustainability exists.

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Environmental Land Use and the Ecological Footprint of Higher Learning

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

Land-Use Planning for Urban Sprawl Based on the CLUE-S Model: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China

Land-Use Planning for Urban Sprawl Based on the CLUE-S Model: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China

Sustainability Dimensions of the Mediterranean Diet: A Systematic Review of the Indicators Used and Its Results

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