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Achieving a just and sustainable food system
Published in Stephen R. Gliessman, V. Ernesto Méndez, Victor M. Izzo, Eric W. Engles, Andrew Gerlicz, Agroecology, 2023
Stephen R. Gliessman, V. Ernesto Méndez, Victor M. Izzo, Eric W. Engles, Andrew Gerlicz
The concept of the ecological footprint, developed in 1990 by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees at the University of British Columbia, allows us to roughly quantify ecological impact in relation to carrying capacity and conceptualize the deficit that occurs when the former exceeds the latter. The ecological footprint concept has become a widely recognized means of measuring and comparing the ecological demands that an individual, city, region, or country—or all of humanity—place on ecosystems or the whole biosphere. Calculating an ecological footprint entails making estimates of the resource use, energy use, waste, and pollution that goes along with everything human beings do in the course of living in a particular place. These impacts are in turn compared with that place’s biocapacity—the ability of the natural systems of the place to absorb the impacts and provide the resources demanded of them, which is essentially what is conceptualized by the term carrying capacity. Ecological impacts are sustainable when they do not exceed biocapacity.
Sustainable Project Management from the IT Perspective
Published in Anna Brzozowska, Arnold Pabian, Barbara Pabian, Sustainability in Project Management, 2021
Anna Brzozowska, Arnold Pabian, Barbara Pabian
Companies that care about the environment get better business results (Brzozowska, Kalinichenko and Minkova 2015: 7–29). IT is nowadays an excellent instrument for implementing sustainable development strategies. Sustainable development enables cost reduction, generates new revenue streams, improves the competitive position, and at the same time reduces the ecological footprint, i.e., the use of natural environmental resources.
Sustainable Development and Climate Change
Published in Dalia Štreimikienė, Asta Mikalauskienė, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, 2021
Dalia Štreimikienė, Asta Mikalauskienė
Ecological Footprint is an indicator which rates resource consumption and waste formation for a certain area of land and is calculated on a country or regional scale. Ecological footprint calculation consists of a few steps. First, the average yearly food, living space, transport, product, and service consumption per capita are calculated. The land plot required to make each of the consumption needs is calculated after that, and its environmental impact based on the needed land plot is assessed. Then, after adding those land plots, a land plot required to fulfil yearly needs per capita is derived. It has been calculated for many countries and regions and is dedicated to assess the sustainability of the country; however, it can also be applied to a city or a region.
Association between ecological footprint awareness and health literacy in adults: a population-based study from Turkey
Published in International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2022
Özge Mengi Çelik, Eda Köksal, Şerife Akpinar, Betül Kocaadam Bozkurt, Nazlıcan Erdoğan Gövez, Merve Esra Çıtar Dazıroğlu, Merve Şeyda Karaçil Ermumcu, Nilüfer Acar Tek
Ensuring sustainable development in order to meet the increasing demands on the ecosystem has become a critical issue worldwide (Bastianoni et al. 2020). In the last half century, natural resources have become more limited and the danger to the world has increased (Mancini et al. 2016). Today, 1.7 planets are required to meet humanity’s demands for the earth’s natural resources (Lin et al. 2018). This brings the concept of sustainability to the fore by revealing the need for urgent measures. Ecological footprint, which stands out as a concept related to sustainability, is an indicator that measures ecological sustainability in certain categories, and it is a calculation made by comparing human needs with the availability of natural resources and collecting the necessary areas for providing renewable resources, infrastructure and waste disposal. Ecological footprint should be less than total biocapacity; however, since 2007 the ecological footprint has exceeded the available biocapacity by approximately 50% (WWF 2010, 2012). Therefore, measures are needed to reduce the ecological footprint and protect existing facilities. Increasing consumer awareness is critical in reducing the ecological footprint (Gurbuz et al. 2021). At this point, it is thought that improvement of health literacy may be effective.
Revisiting the Kuznets curve hypothesis for Tunisia: carbon dioxide vs. Ecological footprint
Published in Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, 2021
Ahdi Noomen Ajmi, Roula Inglesi-Lotz
To investigate the environmental Kuznets curve for Tunisia, we used annual data over the period from 1965 to 2013. In most studies that test the EKC hypothesis in the literature, CO2 and other atmospheric gases are used to proxy environmental degradation. The argument with using the ecological footprint is that it is a more holistic indicator capturing the degradation on water and land measuring air and water quality, deforestation and soil erosion that was ignored as a result of changing economic development over the years. To this aim, we adopt two indicators to measure environmental pollution for environmental degradation: the CO2 emission and the Ecological Footprint.
Reducing the ecological footprint of urban cars
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2018
Bonnie McBain, Manfred Lenzen, Glenn Albrecht, Mathis Wackernagel
The modeling of the global urban car transport sector that we describe here is set in the context of a larger global Ecological Footprint model that is outlined in more detail in McBain et al. (2017) and Lenzen et al. (2013). The key groups of variables that inform the Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity in the larger model are land use (built, cropping, grazing, plantation, and forest), agricultural productivity (in response to land degradation, technological change, and climate change), and climate change (the net emissions produced from the stationary energy sector, the transport sector, agricultural emissions, land clearing, and forest sequestration).