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National natural capital accounting with the ecological footprint concept
Mathis Wackernagel,Larry Onisto,Patricia Bello,Alejandro Callejas Linares,Ina Falfán,Jesus Méndez Garcı́a,Ana Isabel Suárez Guerrero,Ma Guadalupe Suárez Guerrero +7 more
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In this paper, the authors present a simple framework for national and global natural capital accounting, based on the ecological footprint concept, which can be compared with natural capital production at the global and national level, using existing data.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 1999-06-01. It has received 1009 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Natural capital accounting & Natural capital.read more
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STIRPAT, IPAT and ImPACT: analytic tools for unpacking the driving forces of environmental impacts
TL;DR: In this paper, the STIRPAT model is augmented with measures of ecological elasticity, which allows for a more precise specification of the sensitivity of environmental impacts to the forces driving them.
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Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
Mathis Wackernagel,Niels Schulz,Diana Deumling,Alejandro Callejas Linares,Martin Jenkins,Valerie Kapos,Chad Monfreda,Jonathan Loh,Norman Myers,Richard B. Norgaard,Jørgen Randers +10 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 1980s and humanity's load corresponded to 70% of the capacity of the global biosphere in 1961, and grew to 120% in 1999.
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Domesticated Nature: Shaping Landscapes and Ecosystems for Human Welfare
Peter Kareiva,Sean M. Watts,Sean M. Watts,Sean M. Watts,Robert I. McDonald,Robert I. McDonald,Robert I. McDonald,Timothy M. Boucher,Timothy M. Boucher,Timothy M. Boucher +9 more
TL;DR: Going into the future, scientists can help humanity to domesticate nature more wisely by quantifying the tradeoffs among ecosystem services, such as how increasing the provision of one service may decrease ecosystem resilience and the provisionof other services.
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Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems
Charles Francis,Geir Lieblein,Steve Gliessman,Tor Arvid Breland,Nancy G. Creamer,R. Harwood,Lennart Salomonsson,Juha Helenius,D. Rickerl,Ricardo J. Salvador,Mary H. Wiedenhoeft,Steve R. Simmons,P. Allen,Miguel A. Altieri,Cornelia Butler Flora,R. P. Poincelot +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define agroecology as the ecology of food systems and provide a framework that will guide research, education, and action in the multiple and interacting facets of an increasingly complex global agriculture and food system.
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The four qualities of life: Ordering concepts and measures of the good life
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a classification based on two bi-partitions; between life chances and life results, and between "outer" and "inner" qualities, which imply four qualities of life: livability of the environment, life ability of the individual, external utility of life and inner appreciation of life.
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The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
Robert Costanza,Rudolf de Groot,Stephen Farberk,Monica Grasso,Bruce Hannon,Karin E. Limburg,Shahid Naeem,José M. Paruelo,Robert Raskin,Paul Suttonkk,Marjan van den Belt +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have estimated the current economic value of 17 ecosystem services for 16 biomes, based on published studies and a few original calculations, for the entire biosphere, the value (most of which is outside the market) is estimated to be in the range of US$16-54 trillion (10^(12)) per year, with an average of US $33 trillion per year.
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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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Blueprint for a green economy
TL;DR: The meaning of sustainable development is defined in this article as "the value of the environment" and "valuing the environment", and it is defined as "a way of thinking about the future rather than the past".