Building Robust Housing Sector Policy Using the Ecological Footprint

Ecological Footprint Model Using the Support Vector Machine Technique

The per capita ecological footprint (EF) is one of the most widely recognized measures of environmental sustainability. It aims to quantify the Earth's biological resources required to support human activity. In this paper, we summarize relevant previous literature, and present five factors that influence per capita EF. These factors are: National gross domestic product (GDP), urbanization (ind...

determining the ecological sustainability of calshoor basin using the ecological footprint method

determining the ecological sustainability of calshoor basin using the ecological footprint method ziaedin badehian1*, masoumeh mansouri2 1. assistant professor, department of forestry, faculty of agriculture and natural resources, lorestam university, iran 2. phd student in forestry, faculty of agriculture and natural resources, lorestan university, iran introduction during the recent years, is...

Trends in the Housing Sector

Activity in the housing sector is particularly cyclical. The current downturn has many of the usual features: the number of new dwellings being constructed has declined substantially, sales of existing houses are down and the growth rate of housing credit has fallen. In addition to these cyclical features, the housing market continues to be affected by Australia's return to a low-inflation envi...

Ecological footprint model for the Eastern Suburbs

The news was delivered to local councils by University of Sydney researcher, Manfred Lenzen. Using an adaptation of the ecological footprint model of resource and environmental impact estimation, Lenzen has worked out the environmental impact of the Eastern Suburbs and compared it to the situation of only a few years previously. The findings? The ecological footprint of the Eastern Suburbs is g...

The Ecological Footprint – Issues and Trends