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Ecological Footprint, environmental performance and biodiversity: A cross-national comparison
David Vačkář,David Vačkář +1 more
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In this paper, the authors explored patterns of correlation between the ecological footprint and ecosystem and biodiversity measures, including threatened species numbers, and found that human economic activity and environmental pressures are related to threats to biodiversity.About:
This article is published in Ecological Indicators.The article was published on 2012-05-01. It has received 53 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biocapacity & Ecological health.read more
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Carbon, Land, and Water Footprint Accounts for the European Union: Consumption, Production, and Displacements through International Trade
TL;DR: Overall, the EU displaced all three types of environmental pressures to the rest of the world, through imports of products with embodied pressures, while the UK was the most important displacer overall and the largest net exporters of embodied environmental pressures were Poland, France, and Spain.
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What drives environmental degradation? Evidence from 14 Sub-Saharan African countries.
TL;DR: For the SSA countries, the upgrading of industrial structure and further improvement of renewable energy are needed and urbanization plays a crucial role in contributing to environmental degradation and requires immediate policy response.
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Ecological footprint and real income: panel data evidence from the 27 highest emitting countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of real income, financial development and trade openness on the ecological footprint (EF) of consumption using a panel data of leading world EF contributors during the period 1991-2012 were examined.
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The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
Lawrence N. Hudson,Tim Newbold,Tim Newbold,Sara Contu,Samantha L. L. Hill,Samantha L. L. Hill,Igor Lysenko,Adriana De Palma,Adriana De Palma,Helen Phillips,Helen Phillips,Rebecca A. Senior,Dominic J. Bennett,Hollie Booth,Hollie Booth,Argyrios Choimes,Argyrios Choimes,David L P Correia,Julie Day,Susy Echeverría-Londoño,Susy Echeverría-Londoño,Morgan Garon,Michelle L K Harrison,Daniel J. Ingram,Martin Jung,Victoria Kemp,Lucinda Kirkpatrick,Callum D. Martin,Yuan Pan,Hannah J. White,Job Aben,Stefan Abrahamczyk,Gilbert B. Adum,Virginia Aguilar-Barquero,Marcelo A. Aizen,Marc Ancrenaz,Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés,Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés,Inge Armbrecht,Badrul Azhar,Adrián B Azpiroz,Lander Baeten,András Báldi,John E. Banks,Jos Barlow,Jos Barlow,Péter Batáry,Adam J. Bates,Erin M. Bayne,Pedro Beja,Åke Berg,Nicholas J. Berry,Jake E. Bicknell,Jake E. Bicknell,Jochen H. Bihn,Katrin Böhning-Gaese,Teun Boekhout,Céline Boutin,Jérémy Bouyer,Jérémy Bouyer,Francis Q. Brearley,Isabel Brito,Jörg Brunet,Grzegorz Buczkowski,Erika Buscardo,Erika Buscardo,Jimmy Cabra-García,María Calviño-Cancela,Sydney A. Cameron,Eliana M. Cancello,Tiago F. Carrijo,Anelena L Carvalho,Helena Castro,Alejandro A. Castro-Luna,Rolando Cerda,Alexis Cerezo,Matthieu Chauvat,Frank M. Clarke,Daniel F. R. Cleary,Stuart Connop,Biagio D'Aniello,Pedro Giovâni da Silva,Ben Darvill,Jens Dauber,Alain Dejean,Alain Dejean,Tim Diekötter,Tim Diekötter,Yamileth Domínguez-Haydar,Carsten F. Dormann,Bertrand Dumont,Simon G. Dures,Simon G. Dures,Mats Dynesius,Lars Edenius,Zoltán Elek,Martin H. Entling,Nina Farwig,Tom M. Fayle,Tom M. Fayle,Tom M. Fayle,Antonio Felicioli,Annika M. Felton,Gentile Francesco Ficetola,Bruno K. C. Filgueiras,Steven J. Fonte,Lauchlan H. Fraser,Daisuke Fukuda,Dario Furlani,Jörg U. Ganzhorn,Jenni G. Garden,Carla Gheler-Costa,Paolo Giordani,Simonetta Giordano,Marco Silva Gottschalk,Dave Goulson,Aaron D. Gove,Aaron D. Gove,James Grogan,Mick E. Hanley,Thor Hanson,Nor Rasidah Hashim,Joseph E. Hawes,Joseph E. Hawes,Christian Hébert,Alvin J. Helden,John-André Henden,Lionel Hernández,Felix Herzog,Diego Higuera-Diaz,Branko Hilje,Finbarr G. Horgan,Roland Horváth,Kristoffer Hylander,Paola J. Isaacs-Cubides,Masahiro Ishitani,Carmen T Jacobs,Víctor J. Jaramillo,Birgit Jauker,Mats Jonsell,Thomas S. Jung,Vena Kapoor,Vassiliki Kati,Eric Katovai,Michael Kessler,Eva Knop,Annette Kolb,Ádám Kőrösi,Ádám Kőrösi,Thibault Lachat,Victoria Lantschner,Violette Le Féon,Gretchen LeBuhn,Jean-Philippe Légaré,Susan G. Letcher,Nick A. Littlewood,Carlos A. López-Quintero,Mounir Louhaichi,Gábor L. Lövei,Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja,Víctor H. Luja,Kaoru Maeto,Tibor Magura,Neil Aldrin D. Mallari,Neil Aldrin D. Mallari,Erika Marin-Spiotta,E J P Marshall,Eliana Martínez,Margaret M. Mayfield,Grzegorz Mikusiński,Jeffrey C. Milder,James R. Miller,Carolina L. Morales,Mary N Muchane,Muchai Muchane,Robin Naidoo,Akihiro Nakamura,Shoji Naoe,Guiomar Nates-Parra,Dario A Navarrete Gutierrez,Eike Lena Neuschulz,Norbertas Noreika,Olivia Norfolk,Jorge Ari Noriega,Nicole M. Nöske,Niall O'Dea,William Oduro,Caleb Ofori-Boateng,Caleb Ofori-Boateng,Chris O. Oke,Lynne M. Osgathorpe,Juan Paritsis,Alejandro Parra-H,Alejandro Parra-H,Nicolás Pelegrin,Carlos A. Peres,Anna Persson,Theodora Petanidou,Ben Phalan,T. Keith Philips,Katja Poveda,Eileen F. Power,Steven J. Presley,Vânia Proença,Marino Quaranta,Carolina Quintero,Nicola A Redpath-Downing,J. Leighton Reid,Yana T. Reis,Danilo Bandini Ribeiro,Barbara A. Richardson,Michael J. Richardson,Carolina A. Robles,Jörg Römbke,Luz Piedad Romero-Duque,Loreta Rosselli,Stephen J. Rossiter,T'ai H. Roulston,Laurent Rousseau,Jonathan P. Sadler,Szabolcs Sáfián,Romeo A. Saldaña-Vázquez,Ulrika Samnegård,Christof Schüepp,Oliver Schweiger,Jodi L. Sedlock,Ghazala Shahabuddin,Douglas Sheil,Douglas Sheil,Fernando A. B. Silva,Eleanor M. Slade,Allan H. Smith-Pardo,Allan H. Smith-Pardo,Navjot S. Sodhi,Eduardo Somarriba,Ramón A. Sosa,Jane C. Stout,Matthew J. Struebig,Yik Hei Sung,Caragh G. Threlfall,Rebecca K. Tonietto,Béla Tóthmérész,Teja Tscharntke,Edgar C. Turner,Jason M. Tylianakis,Jason M. Tylianakis,Adam J. Vanbergen,Kiril Vassilev,Hans Verboven,Carlos H. Vergara,Pablo M. Vergara,Jort Verhulst,Tony R. Walker,Tony R. Walker,Yanping Wang,James I. Watling,Konstans Wells,Konstans Wells,Christopher D. Williams,Michael R. Willig,John C. Z. Woinarski,Jan H. D. Wolf,Ben A. Woodcock,Douglas W. Yu,Douglas W. Yu,Andrey S. Zaitsev,Ben Collen,Robert M. Ewers,Georgina M. Mace,Drew W. Purves,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Andy Purvis,Andy Purvis +273 more
TL;DR: A new database of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world is described and assessed.
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Determinants of ecological footprint in MINT countries
TL;DR: The literature mostly uses a single indicator as a measure for environmental degradation as mentioned in this paper, but each single indicator captures only a part of the environmental problem, an indicator that is not representative of the whole environmental problem.
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The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild
Eric W. Sanderson,Malanding S. Jaiteh,Marc A. Levy,Kent H. Redford,Antoinette V. Wannebo,Gillian Woolmer +5 more
Abstract: I Genesis, God blesses human beings and bids us to take dominion over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, and every other living thing. We are entreated to be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth, and subdue it (Gen. 1:28). The bad news, and the good news, is that we have almost succeeded. There is little debate in scientific circles about the importance of human influence on ecosystems. According to scientists’ reports, we appropriate over 40% of the net primary productivity (the green material) produced on Earth each year (Vitousek et al. 1986, Rojstaczer et al. 2001). We consume 35% of the productivity of the oceanic shelf (Pauly and Christensen 1995), and we use 60% of freshwater run-off (Postel et al. 1996). The unprecedented escalation in both human population and consumption in the 20th century has resulted in environmental crises never before encountered in the history of humankind and the world (McNeill 2000). E. O. Wilson (2002) claims it would now take four Earths to meet the consumption demands of the current human population, if every human consumed at the level of the average US inhabitant. The influence of human beings on the planet has become so pervasive that it is hard to find adults in any country who have not seen the environment around them reduced in natural values during their lifetimes—woodlots converted to agriculture, agricultural lands converted to suburban development, suburban development converted to urban areas. The cumulative effect of these many local changes is the global phenomenon of human influence on nature, a new geological epoch some call the “anthropocene” (Steffen and Tyson 2001). Human influence is arguably the most important factor affecting life of all kinds in today’s world (Lande 1998, Terborgh 1999, Pimm 2001, UNEP 2001). Yet despite the broad consensus among biologists about the importance of human influence on nature, this phenomenon and its implications are not fully appreciated by the larger human community, which does not recognize them in its economic systems (Hall et al. 2001) or in most of its political decisions (Soulé and Terborgh 1999, Chapin et al. 2000). In part, this lack of appreciation may be due to scientists’ propensity to express themselves in terms like “appropriation of net primary productivity” or “exponential population growth,” abstractions that require some training to understand. It may be due to historical assumptions about and habits inherited from times when human beings, as a group, had dramatically less influence on the biosphere. Now the individual deci-