Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the EarthAn excellent handbook for community activists, planners, teachers, students and policy makers. |
Contents
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS FOR BEGINNERS | 7 |
Dr Footnote Explains | 16 |
Planning for a Sustainable Future | 28 |
Calculation Procedure | 63 |
Adapting the Calculation Procedure | 79 |
THE SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES | 125 |
The cycle of change in decisionmaking | 137 |
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Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth Mathis Wackernagel,William Rees No preview available - 1998 |
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agricultural approach appropriated assessments average Canadian billion hectares biophysical Bioregional calculations Canada carbon carrying capacity challenge constraints consume dependent depletion Earth ecological deficit Ecological Economics Ecological Footprint analysis Ecological Footprint concept ecologically productive land economic growth ecosphere ecosystems effects efficiency gains embodied energy energy and material energy consumption environment Environmental estimate example fair Earthshare Figure flows fossil energy fossil fuel future gigajoules gigajoules per hectare GJ/ha/yr global carrying capacity ha/cap hectares hectares of ecologically human carrying capacity human-made impacts important increase industrialized countries land area land required land-use life-support services lifestyle limits live long-term m³/ha/yr material standards metres natural capital natural capital stocks natural income nature's overshoot percent petajoules planet political potential regions social society species square kilometres strategies sustainable development terawatts trade unsustainable urban Vancouver waste World Resources Institute Yoshihiko Wada