Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the EarthAn excellent handbook for community activists, planners, teachers, students and policy makers. |
Contents
Adapting the Calculation Procedure | 1 |
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS FOR BEGINNERS | 7 |
13 | 31 |
3 A global comparison of Footprint sizes could everybody on Earth | 88 |
6 A Regional Analysis from Australia | 96 |
9 Housing choice affects our Footprints | 103 |
12 The Ecological Footprint of bridges | 109 |
16 Calculate your own Footprint | 116 |
THE SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES | 125 |
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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 assess average Canadian billion hectares biophysical Bioregional calculations Canada carbon carrying capacity cars 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 environment environmental estimate example fair Earthshare Figure flows forest fossil energy fossil fuel future gigajoules gigajoules per hectare GJ/ha/yr global carrying capacity ha/cap hectares human population impacts important increase industrialized countries land area land required land-use life-support services lifestyle limits live long-term material standards metres natural capital natural capital stocks natural income nature's nature's services overshoot percent petajoules photosynthesis planet political pollution potential regions resource consumption social society solar species square kilometres strategies sustainable development terawatts tion today's tool trade urban Vancouver waste Yoshihiko Wada