Ecological footprint accounting

Wackernagel, Mathis; Galli, Alessandro; Borucke, Michael; Lazarus, Elias; Mattoon, Scott

doi:10.4337/9781781951415.00022

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“…Direct applications: Several national governments have integrated results from the NFA into existing sustainable development-monitoring frameworks as a high-level indicator to set targets and to guide sustainability and development policy (See: www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/ countries) [56,67], including Wales, Switzerland, Slovenia, Japan, the United Arab Emirates [68], Ecuador, and Montenegro [69]. The Ecological Footprint of countries has also been independently assessed by researchers across the world (see Wackernagel et al [67] for a comprehensive review).…”

Section: Applications Of National Footprint Accountsmentioning

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Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018

Lin¹,

Hanscom²,

Murthy³

et al. 2018

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Ecological Footprint accounting quantifies the supply and demand of Earth’s biocapacity. The National Footprint Accounts (NFA) are the most widely used Ecological Footprint (EF) dataset, and provide results for most countries and the world from 1961 to 2014, based primarily on publicly available UN datasets. Here, we review the evolution of the NFA, describe and quantify the effects of improvements that have been implemented into the accounts since the 2012 edition, and review the latest global trends. Comparing results over six editions of NFAs, we find that time-series trends in world results remain stable, and that the world Ecological Footprint for the latest common year (2008) has increased six percent after four major accounting improvements and more than thirty minor improvements. The latest results from the NFA 2018 Edition for the year 2014 indicate that humanity’s Ecological Footprint is 1.7 Earths, and that global ecological overshoot continues to grow. While improved management practices and increased agricultural yields have assisted in a steady increase of Earth’s biocapacity since 1961, humanity’s Ecological Footprint continues to increase at a faster pace than global biocapacity, particularly in Asia, where the total and per capita Ecological Footprint are increasing faster than all other regions.

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confidence: 99%

Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018

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Hanscom²,

Murthy³

et al. 2018

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“…Neither the EFP nor HPI can be a complete metric of sustainability or human wellbeing since human development is multi-dimensional and based upon plural public values, but they can provide novel and enlightening information that is different from the information provided by the GDPP. The EFP can measure biological capability per person and indicate that today's economy is based on the overconsumption of non-renewable natural resources; it is also able to determine that this development pattern is unsustainable [87]. The countries that are ranked highly based on the EFP are primarily in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but this does not mean they have outstanding performance in terms of sustainable development, but rather, they tend to have low economic capability.…”

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Social Progress beyond GDP: A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of GDP and Twelve Alternative Indicators

Wang

Chen

2022

Sustainability

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What social progress is and how to measure it are seemingly plain but essentially intri-cate questions that have not been clarified to date, which has led to various social problems and development failures. Designed after the Great Depression in the 1930s, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been, on the one hand, regarded as the greatest invention of the 20th century and is widely accepted as the primary indicator for social progress, but on the other hand, it has been criticized as knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing. The Beyond GDP Movement that has been active since the 2010s has inspired global interest in designing indicators to replace or supplement GDP, but none of them stands out as GDP’s successor. We take 12 influential indicators that consider beyond GDP and carry out a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to investigate their correlations. The results indicate that GDP per capita (GDPP) can explain 65.61% of the information in the first principal component (PC) and account for 51.10% of the information related to the total 13 indicators, indicating its major role in social progress. Most indicators have strong correlations with GDPP, not beyond, and only the Ecological Footprint per capita (EFP) and Happy Planet Index (HPI) that have negative and weak correlations with GDPP, respectively, can provide new perspectives and values beyond GDP. Social progress is based upon various public values, and the indicators are the measurements of these values. Although GDP and economic values play major roles during social development, other indicators and their potential public values cannot be ignored. Prioritizing these public values and monitoring their indicators are essential to achieving sustainable and comprehensive social progress.

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Combining innovation and sustainability: an educational paradigm for human development on earth

Mota¹,

Oliveira

2014

Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology

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Innovation is becoming more and more central in our society and it is directly associated to the possibility of sustainable economic and social development. In this new scenario, the educational institutions have increasingly assumed a relevant role for the innovation-based economic development. Consequently, education includes among its main missions collaboration for the promotion of a sustainable development with environmental preservation. Concerning the economic, social and environmental aspects, the economic pillar has been developed almost in an isolated manner, favouring more the financial aspects, less the social and almost ignoring the demands of the global environment. The potential conflict between development and preservation can be tackled through the stimulus for innovation, the correct use of new technologies and the dissemination through education, in all levels, of management methods based on the collaboration between schools, research teams, companies and society in general. A contemporary education, covering innovation solutions for a sustainable existence on our planet, has the chance to contribute to correct the adopted paths so far, so that the economic balance could be achieved with environmental preservation and social development. Sustainability defines how the humanity can meet its demands today without compromising the needs of future generation. It should be a guiding principle for world economic development and is closely depending on the way our population is educated to face such challenge. This paper presents a discussion on these aspects and proposes a framework of references to support its concept and implementation. Mota and Oliveira Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology 2013, 1:2 http://www.bjst-journal.com/content/1/1/2 ResumoInovação está se tornando cada vez mais central em nossa sociedade e está diretamente associada à possibilidade de um desenvolvimento econômico e social sustentável. Neste cenário, as instituições educacionais têm assumido um papel cada vez mais relevante no desenvolvimento econômico baseado em inovação. Consequentemente, educação inclui entre suas principais missões colaborar na promoção de um desenvolvimento sustentável com preservação ambiental. No que diz respeito aos aspectos econômicos, sociais e ambientais, o pilar da economia tem se desenvolvido muitas vezes de uma maneira quase isolada, priorizando os componentes financeiros, conferindo menos atenção às questões sociais e ignorando as demandas ambientais. Este potencial conflito entre desenvolvimento e preservação pode ser devidamente equacionado via estímulo à inovação, o correto uso de novas tecnologias e a disseminação pela educação, em todos os níveis, de métodos de gestão apropriados, baseados na colaboração entre escolas, pesquisadores, tecnólogos, empresas e sociedade em geral. Uma educação contemporânea, abrangendo soluções inovadoras para um desenvolvimento sustentável em nosso planeta, tem a chance de contribuir para corrigir os caminhos adotados até aqui, tal que um bal...

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Ecological footprint accounting

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018

Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018

Social Progress beyond GDP: A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of GDP and Twelve Alternative Indicators

Combining innovation and sustainability: an educational paradigm for human development on earth

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