Showing papers by "Mathis Wackernagel published in 2009"

TL;DR: In this article, a community of active Ecological Footprint practitioners and users propose key research priorities for improving national ecological footprint accounting, and summarize the current state of debate, and suggest approaches for further development.

TL;DR: Across scales, analysts apply Ecological Footprint accounting methods to understand a population's or activity’s demand for the planet's limited capacity to provide a range ofecosystem goods and services.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a new perspective of the ecological footprint in three dimensions, considering not only its size but also its depth: according to this viewpoint the footprint is not an area but a volume, although maintaining the same value as the one in two dimensions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the ecological footprint as a tool to measure the value of international trade flows and found that the largest interregional flows are from Latin to North America, and from North America to Asia-Pacific.

TL;DR: Kitzes et al. as mentioned in this paper pointed out that Fiala's view that Footprint accounts do not assume zero greenhouse gas emissions, but rather demonstrate that, like any waste product, zero net accumulation of fossil carbon in the biosphere is a necessary condition for long term sustainability.