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Measuring sustainability: Why the ecological footprint is bad economics and bad environmental science
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The ecological footprint is a measure of the resources necessary to produce the goods that an individual or population consumes It is also used as a measure for sustainability, though evidence suggests that it falls short as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2008-11-01. It has received 312 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biocapacity & Ecological footprint.read more
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Is accounting for sustainability actually accounting for sustainability…and how would we know? An exploration of narratives of organisations and the planet
TL;DR: In this paper, an auto-critique of accounting for sustainability via an examination of meanings and contradictions in sustainable development is presented, leading towards a suggestion for the development of multiple and conditional narratives that whilst no longer realist or totalising, explicitly challenge the hegemonic claims of business movements in the arena of sustainability and sustainable development.
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Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint
TL;DR: This work reviews current footprints and relates those to maximum sustainable levels, highlighting the need for future work on combining footprints, assessing trade-offs between them, improving computational techniques, estimating maximum sustainable footprint levels, and benchmarking efficiency of resource use.
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Climate benefits of changing diet
Elke Stehfest,Lex Bouwman,Detlef P. van Vuuren,Michel G.J. den Elzen,Bas Eickhout,Pavel Kabat +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the potential impact of dietary changes on achieving ambitious climate stabilization levels and found that a global food transition to less meat, or even a complete switch to plant-based protein food, can have a dramatic effect on land use.
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Review of sustainability indices and indicators: Towards a new City Sustainability Index (CSI)
Koichiro Mori,Aris Christodoulou +1 more
TL;DR: The conceptual requirements for an adequate CSI are: (i) to consider environmental, economic and social aspects from the viewpoint of strong sustainability; (ii) to capture external impacts (leakage effects) of city on other areas beyond the city boundaries particularly in terms of environmental aspects; (iii) to create indices/indicators originally for the purpose of assessing city sustainability; and (iv) to be able to assess world cities in both developed and developing countries using CSI as discussed by the authors.
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Environmental Sustainability and Behavioral Science: Meta-Analysis of Proenvironmental Behavior Experiments
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis was performed on 87 published reports containing 253 experimental treatments that measured an observed, not self-reported, behavioral outcome, and concluded that cognitive dissonance, goal setting, social modeling, and prompts provided the overall largest effect sizes (Hedge's g > 0.60).
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Our Ecological Footprint: reducing human impact on the earth - eScholarship
TL;DR: Wackernagel and Rees as mentioned in this paper presented an analysis of the aggregate land area required for a given population to exist in a sustainable manner, and showed that at 11 acres per person, the U.S. has the highest per capita footprint.
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Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
TL;DR: Wackernagel and Rees as mentioned in this paper presented an analysis of the aggregate land area required for a given population to exist in a sustainable manner, and showed that at 11 acres per person, the U.S. has the highest per capita footprint.
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Ecosystem services in urban areas
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the ecosystem services generated by ecosystems within the urban area and concluded that the locally generated ecosystem services have a substantial impact on the quality of life in urban areas and should be addressed in land-use planning.
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Impact of Population Growth
Paul R. Ehrlich,John P. Holdren +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that population growth causes a disproportionate negative impact on the environment and that the control of population is necessary but not sufficient means of seeing us through the whole crisis of environmental deterioration.