Biocapacity vs Ecological Footprint of world regions: A geopolitical interpretation

Niccolucci, Valentina; Tiezzi, Enzo; Pulselli, Federico Maria; Capineri, Cristina

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.09.002

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“…The ecological footprint measures the human demand for natural resources and ecosystem services, and the dependence of human life on those resources and services [14]. The ecological footprint is a powerful indicator of the sustainability of development, as it considers the dynamics that are associated with the pressure that is exerted on the environment by the use of (renewable and non-renewable) resources as inputs and various outputs (such as waste or CO 2 ) [15].…”

Section: Ecological Footprintmentioning

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Taiwan’s Ecological Footprint (1994–2011)

Lee

Peng

2014

Sustainability

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Taiwan’s Ecological Footprint (1994–2011)

Lee

Peng

2014

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“…The EF is an indicator that considers the energy and raw materials fluxes to and from any particular system, converting them into spaces of land or water necessary by nature for producing and/or assimilating these fluxes. Although EF was firstly developed to account for the consumption of natural resources depending on the lifestyle of nations and regions [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18], improved methodologies allow the application of the EF to a wide variety of sectors and activities [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Pressure of nations on marine ecosystems has also been assessed by modified EF methodologies [6,[31][32][33].…”

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Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

Lopes

Antelo

Franco‐Uría

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Sustainability of the fisheries sector is nowadays a key issue due to the significant impact that this activity may have on the environment. Besides fishing activity itself, other indirect impacts, like those originated from related activities and services also need to be addressed. For assessing the environmental burden of this sector, the indicator Ecological Footprint (EF) can be used. The application of EF to the fisheries sector is still uncommon and studies of associated activities (like ports) even more. In this work, classical EF methodology was applied in order to evaluate the environmental impact of the fisheries sector, taking as a representative sample the global activity (fishing and transportation) of the Port of Vigo (Spain), one of the biggest fishing ports in the world. A high value of total EF for both port and fishing activities was obtained.However, relative EF is much higher in the case of fishing, due to the low natural productivity associated to fish resources. Most of footprint land-components pressure was on energy-land and sea area, being resources consumption the principal category contributing to EF values in all the evaluated scenarios.

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“…A few years later, Wackernagel and Rees (1996) popularized the EF which can be seen as a direct outcome of this tradition in the literature. Several researchers have found the EF measure useful in order to analyse asymmetrical flows in ecological terms (Anderson and Lindroth, 2001;Torras, 2003;York et al, 2003;Rice, 2007;Niccolucci et al, 2012, among others 3 ).…”

Section: The Ecological Footprintmentioning

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Spatial Polarization of the Ecological Footprint Distribution

Teixidó-Figueras

Duro

2014

Ecological Economics

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The international allocation of natural resources is determined, not by any ethical or ecological criteria, but by the dominance of market mechanisms. From a core-periphery perspective, this allocation may even be driven by historically determined structural patterns, with a core group of countries whose consumption appropriates most available natural resources, and another group, having low natural resource consumption, which plays a peripheral role. This article consists of an empirical distributional analysis of natural resource consumption (as measured by Ecological Footprints) whose purpose is to assess the extent to which the distribution of consumption responds to polarization (as opposed to mere inequality). To assess this, we estimate and decompose different polarization indices for a balanced sample of 119 countries over the period 1961 to 2007. Our results points toward a polarized distribution which is consistent with a core-periphery framework.

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Biocapacity vs Ecological Footprint of world regions: A geopolitical interpretation

Cited by 92 publications

References 21 publications

Taiwan’s Ecological Footprint (1994–2011)

Taiwan’s Ecological Footprint (1994–2011)

Sustainability of port activities within the framework of the fisheries sector: Port of Vigo (NW Spain)

Spatial Polarization of the Ecological Footprint Distribution

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