What is the average ecological footprint per person?
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Although 11% of these UK households could be regarded as environmentally sustainable, the majority would require a reduction of 60% in ecological footprint to achieve a globally sustainable footprint per person. | |
13 Apr 2010 | We argue in this paper that the ecological footprint is not related only to the raw energy consumption but also depends on the production means of the electricity, some being obviously greener than others. |
401 Citations | Our findings suggest that economic growth and energy consumption have negative relationships with the ecological footprint. |
125 Citations | It concludes that many crucial questions pertinent to building a sustainable society can be addressed by current ecological footprint research. |
The ecological footprint (EF) concept provides valuable insights into the human appropriation of resources relative to earth’s carrying capacity, and therefore it enables us to compare human demands with nature’s supply and provides an indicator of human ecological sustainability. | |
118 Citations | Calculation of the Gini coefficient for total Ecological Footprint and its components explains the sources of inequality in overall resource use. |
34 Citations | It offers planners, policy-makers, and community leaders an accessible, straight forward, and cost effective strategy for estimating the ecological footprint at the community and municipal level. |
159 Citations | Empirical results show that the Ecological Footprint is non-stationary which suggests that policies affecting the Ecological Footprint will have long-term and permanent effects. |
The results show that per capita ecological footprint has a power relationship with net residential density despite of a linear relationship between population and net residential density. | |
Ecological Footprint Analysis of these real demands can give us some measure of the degree to which Earth's surface can sustainably support humanity's patterns of consumption as population grows and standards of living in developing countries rise. | |
100 Citations | The ecological footprint provides an indirect basis for considering the long-term ecological risk and sustainability of human settlements, regions or, in this case, a continent. |
01 Jan 2019 41 Citations | Therefore, ecological footprint might be followed to understand, in an integrated manner, the environmental impacts of the humans’ activities on the biosphere and its composing ecosystems. |
53 Citations | This analysis provides evidence that the Ecological Footprint is a meaningful ecological indicator which can be compared to equivalent measures of the appropriation of ecosystem productive capacity and land use pressures. |
The input–output approach provides a consistent means of calculating an ecological footprint using data collected as part of the system of national accounts in most developed countries. |
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