On the rationale and policy usefulness of Ecological Footprint Accounting: The case of Morocco

Galli, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.01.008

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“…In addition to the improved BC, this counterintuitive result may have two explanations. First, we used EF to account for the appropriation of land resources, but excluded the impacts on carbon, water, materials, nitrogen, and other resources, which were addressed by Galli et al [12] and Galli [13]. Second, the EF of egg and vegetable production decreased greatly due to increased productivity per unit area.…”

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“…The ecological footprint (EF) represents the area required for resource production and waste assimilation [11][12][13]. When the calculation is not based on site-specific or local data, as is often the case in large-scale or global studies, it may instead be based on the overall average productivity around the world, in which case the area unit is defined as a "global hectare" (gha).…”

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Ecological Footprint Analysis Based on Changing Food Consumption in a Poorly Developed Area of China

Zhen

2017

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Abstract:The per capita ecological footprint (EF) is a useful tool to compare consumption with nature's ability to support this consumption. Guyuan is an economically impoverished region in China, where EF provides important insights into whether human consumption can be sustained by the local per capita biological capacity (BC), which represents the environment's ability to support resource use. We estimated the EF of food consumption using local equivalence and yield factors, and compared EF in 1998 and 2013 with BC, which represented the existing biologically productive area (including cultivated land, grassland, forest, and water bodies) that supports this consumption. Data were collected from household surveys, government statistics, and land use maps. We found that food consumption changed, with decreasing consumption of staple foods and increasing consumption of meat, eggs, milk, edible oils, fruit, and vegetables. Decreased staple food consumption decreased the EF for this food group, but the large increase in meat consumption greatly increased EF from meat production (to more than 41 times the 1998 value). Cultivated land contributed greatly to both EF and BC, and staple foods and vegetables were the main EF components for this land. Overall, EF from food consumption decreased from 1998 to 2013, but local BC remained 188,356 ha below EF (i.e., current consumption is not sustainable based on local resources). The Grain for Green program, which focuses on increasing the BC of forest and grassland by replacing degraded cultivated land with these land use types, decreased the BC of cultivated land, leading to wide spatial variation in both EF and BC. These results will inform policy development by revealing the condition of each region's use of the locally available production resources.

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Ecological Footprint Analysis Based on Changing Food Consumption in a Poorly Developed Area of China

Zhen

2017

Sustainability

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“…As pointed out in numerous studies (e.g., [15,45]), EFA is useful for providing a basic overview of sustainability of an environmental system and can provide monitoring and a warning to advise policy makers to look more closely at their system, but it needs to be used in concert with other metrics and indicators. Several authors have discussed how such information can be used in policy decisions (e.g., [38,[44][45][46], but it has not been fully explored [45]. USEPA [17] participated in a dialogue with researchers, decision makers, and policy-makers, but it is not the goal of this paper to suggest or direct policy.…”

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Calculating Puerto Rico’s Ecological Footprint (1970–2010) Using Freely Available Data

Hopton

Berland

2015

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Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) is appealing as a metric of sustainability because it is straightforward in theory and easy to conceptualize. However, EFA is difficult to implement because it requires extensive data. A simplified approach to EFA that requires fewer data can serve as a perfunctory analysis allowing researchers to examine a system with relatively little cost and effort. We examined whether a simplified approach using freely available data could be applied to Puerto Rico, a densely populated island with limited land resources. Forty-one years of data were assembled to compute the ecological footprint from 1970 to 2010. According to EFA, individuals in Puerto Rico were moving toward sustainability over time, as the per capita ecological footprint decreased from 3.69 ha per capita (ha/ca) in 1970 to 3

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“…Hence the measurement unit does not reflect a physical area (for instance ha), but rather the bio-productivity thereof. For a detailed description of gha we refer to Galli (2015) not only refers to a physical area (in terms of ha), but also takes its ecological productivity (yield factor) into account (Borucke et al, 2013). Third, the EF is scientifically rigorous and widely accepted across the social sciences (Jorgenson & Clark, 2011).…”

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“…At this stage, policy makers and decision makers need to grasp the context (or landscape) in which they operate and build political will around issues. Further, causes and potential solutions are identified (Galli, 2015).…”

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On the rationale and policy usefulness of Ecological Footprint Accounting: The case of Morocco

Cited by 152 publications

References 71 publications

Ecological Footprint Analysis Based on Changing Food Consumption in a Poorly Developed Area of China

Ecological Footprint Analysis Based on Changing Food Consumption in a Poorly Developed Area of China

Calculating Puerto Rico’s Ecological Footprint (1970–2010) Using Freely Available Data

Connectedness in times of ecological overshoot

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