The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective

The place of space in urban metabolism research: Towards a spatial turn? A review and future agenda

“…A few exceptions are more recent land use and land system studies, which are presented as a strategy to "open the black box" (cf. Human Appropriation of Net Primary production, HANPP tool, Erb et al 2016) although these are mostly performed at global or national (rather than urban) scale (Dorninger et al 2021).…”

Social-ecological niche construction for sustainability: understanding destructive processes and exploring regenerative potentials

“…Moreover, the ‘game changer’ which lifted human activity to another level [2] was clearly the massive use of fossil fuels for energy generation. Fossil fuels are transformed to boost and substitute natural productivity and biomass use (free human activity from land-based environmental constraints) [21,64], substitute animal and human labour power [28], and enable long-distance trading [67]. Still, (i) fossil fuel resources are highly unequally distributed in the world system and (ii) their use comes with well-known long-term legacies like anthropogenic global climate change, resource dependency, pollution and depletion.…”

“…Still, (i) fossil fuel resources are highly unequally distributed in the world system and (ii) their use comes with well-known long-term legacies like anthropogenic global climate change, resource dependency, pollution and depletion. It is important to recognize that not all social-ecological niches existing today are constructed and maintained with the same level of technology and resource use (some do not have access to fossil fuels at all), but they are connected and partly interdependent in their existence; compare studies on ecologically unequal exchange and the unproportional access to resources and sinks [28,68].…”

“…Human societies are still confronted with natural limits, environmental feedbacks and biological competitors, both locally and globally, but in a different and less obvious way than in the past. Indeed, the supposed escape from natural selection requires growing energy input and represents a temporal deferral rather than an actual liberation from material limitations [27,28]. The concept of ‘planetary boundaries’ attempts to grasp and quantify such limits on a global scale, which, when transgressed, might lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic paths for the future of humanity [29,30].…”

Crude oil footprint in the rapidly changing world and implications from their income and price elasticities

“…Here enabled by the combination of a multi-regional input-output database (EXIOBASE 3.8.1) (Stadler et al, 2021) and crude oil production data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) (IEA, 2022b), we depict the oil footprint of 49 countries, territories, and regions in the past 23 years . The quantification of oil footprint is similar to the recent literature that examines consumption-based rather than territory-based environmental and resource footprints (Dorninger et al, 2021;Wiedmann and Lenzen, 2018;Zheng et al, 2018). We further employed the panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to estimate the oil footprints' income and price elasticities in 30 OECD countries where the oil price data are available.…”