The application of ecological footprint and biocapacity for environmental carrying capacity assessment: A new approach for European cities

Świąder, Małgorzata; Lin, David; Szewrański, Szymon; Kazak, Jan; Iha, Katsunori; Hoof, Joost van; Belčáková, Ingrid; Altiok, Selen

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2019.12.010

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“…The total average YN of cropland are elaborated in Table 4 below. 2.3.3 Measurement of Cropland Footprint (EFCropland) Cropland defines as "the area used to grow crops for food and fibers for human consumption as well as the area for animal feed, oil crops, and rubber" [6]. The crop products are being analyzed 20 products in this study.…”

Section: Local/national Biological Yield (Yn)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Determining the ecological balance issue (EBI) through measuring the urban sustainability and converting it into a functional model is vital for balancing [3,5]. Therefore, more academic efforts have been made to explore methods and measurements for assessing the sustainability, such as emergy analysis, material flow analysis, data development analysis, and ecological footprint analysis [4,6].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Analysis of Ecological Balance Issue for the Built-Up Land and Cropland Footprints in Alexandria City, Egypt During this Time-Series (2005-2019)

Kandil¹,

Sarhan²,

Abdel-Galil³

2020

IJSDP

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At recent times, rapid urbanization growth occurs in numerous cities, thus this creates many issues, leading to local ecological degradation. So, an evaluation tool has been proposed to measure this ecological balance issue (EBI) to assess the urban sustainability of a city which is an Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) tool. This paper aims to measure the imbalance of consumption/production of built-up land in Alexandria city by using the EFA tool. In order to assess a holistic picture of the urban sustainability of built-up land, the researcher collected all the relevant data during this time-series (2005-2019) from the local authorities. In the accounts of ecological footprint (EF), the parameters of built-up land are set as equal to those of cropland, based on the assumption that built-up land is totally converted from cropland. However, built-up land may be derived from other types of land use, but the cropland ranks as the most productive use. So, one of the objectives of this paper is to compare between the builtup land and cropland to ascertain the extent of loss on cropland. The researcher concludes that the Ecological Footprint (EF) of built-up land is larger than the bio-capacity (BC) of built-up land, resulting in an existing ecological balance issue (ecological deficit), this can be considered as urban unsustainable pattern. Consequently, the researcher has been suggested guidelines and recommendations responding to the final results of measurements so that more decisions can be taken to move towards the urban sustainability progress by observing the local realities for Alexandria's vision of 2050.

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Section: Local/national Biological Yield (Yn)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Ecological Balance Issue for the Built-Up Land and Cropland Footprints in Alexandria City, Egypt During this Time-Series (2005-2019)

Kandil¹,

Sarhan²,

Abdel-Galil³

2020

IJSDP

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“…They are currently being reflected in various regional and national evaluations. Their interpretations can be used to assess ecosystem services [43][44][45][46], biomass [47], the impact of EU subsidies [48], regional development [49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56], urbanization [57], the impact of climate change on the landscape [58], landscape protection [59][60][61][62][63][64], and many others. Our results are consistent with detailed mapping and comparisons in other European countries.…”

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Comparison of CORINE Land Cover Data with National Statistics and the Possibility to Record This Data on a Local Scale—Case Studies from Slovakia

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Monitoring of land cover (LC) provides important information of actual land use (LU) and landscape dynamics. LC research results depend on the size of the area, purpose and applied methodology. CORINE Land Cover (CLC) data is one of the most important sources of LU data from a European perspective. Our research compares official CLC data (third hierarchical level of nomenclature at a scale of 1:100,000) and national statistics (NS) of LU in Slovakia between 2000 and 2018 at national, county, and local levels. The most significant differences occurred in arable land and permanent grassland, which is also related to the recording method and the development of agricultural land management. Due to the abandonment of agricultural areas, a real recorded increase in forest cover due to forest succession was not introduced in the official records of Land register. New modification of CLC methodology for identifying LC classes at a scale of 1:10,000 and fifth hierarchical level of CLC is firstly applied for local case studies representing lowland, basin, and mountain landscape. The size of the least identified and simultaneously recorded area was established at 0.1 ha the minimum width of a polygon was established at 10 m, the minimum recorded width of linear elements such as communications was established at 2 m. The use of the fifth CLC level in the case studies areas generated average boundary density 17.2 km/km2, comparing to the 2.6 km/km2 of the third level. Therefore, when measuring the density of spatial information by the polygon boundary lengths, the fifth level carries 6.6 times more information than the third level. Detailed investigation of LU affords better verification of national statistics data at a local level. This study also contributes to a more detailed recording of the current state of the Central European landscape and its changes.

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“…Based on studies on travelers' BEV purchase behaviors, usage behaviors, footprints, etc. [6,39], the impact of BEVs' roles in emission reductions can be quantified and used as a reference for the development of future emission reductions.…”

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Alternative Incentive Policies against Purchase Subsidy Decrease for Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Adoption

Yao

Jin

et al. 2020

Energies

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The purchase subsidy policy gives powerful support in battery electric vehicles’ (BEVs) market penetration. However, the purchase subsidy is also a huge financial burden for the government, so it can only be considered as a transitional measure and will be canceled gradually. This paper aims to investigate the impact of purchase subsidy phase-out on BEV adoptions and explore alternative incentive policies to continue stimulating BEV adoptions. A stated preference (SP) survey is conducted in Beijing, and a binary logit (BL) model is established to describe how various factors affect BEV adoption preferences. In addition to the factors related to vehicle techniques, the policies of license plate restrictions and driving restrictions are focused due to Beijing’s unique external policy environment. The vehicle use subsidy and bus line driving permit are tested as alternative incentive policies against the purchase subsidy decrease. The results show that incentive policies can significantly influence BEV adoption intentions. If the purchase subsidy policy is canceled in Beijing, the BEV choice probability will be reduced from 45.94% to 16.62%. In this case, the vehicle use subsidy needs to be set at the level of 4966 CNY/year (714.3 USD/year) to maintain the original BEV choice probability.

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The application of ecological footprint and biocapacity for environmental carrying capacity assessment: A new approach for European cities

Cited by 101 publications

References 52 publications

Analysis of Ecological Balance Issue for the Built-Up Land and Cropland Footprints in Alexandria City, Egypt During this Time-Series (2005-2019)

Analysis of Ecological Balance Issue for the Built-Up Land and Cropland Footprints in Alexandria City, Egypt During this Time-Series (2005-2019)

Comparison of CORINE Land Cover Data with National Statistics and the Possibility to Record This Data on a Local Scale—Case Studies from Slovakia

Alternative Incentive Policies against Purchase Subsidy Decrease for Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Adoption

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