Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018

Ecological footprint accounting in the life cycle assessment of products

Mark A.J. Huijbregts⁎, Stefanie Hellweg, Rolf Frischknecht, Konrad Hungerbühler, A. Jan Hendriks Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland ecoinvent Centre, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland Institute for Chemicaland Bioengineering, ETH Zuri...

Establishing national natural capital accounts based on detailed Ecological Footprint and biological capacity assessments

The protection of natural capital, including its ability to renew or regenerate itself, represents a core aspect of sustainability. Hence, reliable measures of the supply of, and human demand on, natural capital are indispensable for tracking progress, setting targets and driving policies for sustainability. This paper presents the latest iteration of such a measure: the Ecological Footprint. A...

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...

Relationship between Ecological Footprint and Economic Growth in D8 Countries: Testing the Kuznets Environmental Hypothesis Using PSTR Model

This study examines the Kuznets environmental curve among D8 countries in the period 1961–2016. The Kuznets environmental curve shows the reversed U-shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation. In this paper, two methods of time series estimation and smooth panel transition estimation were used to test the hypothesis of this relationship. Also, the ecological footp...

The Ecological Footprint – Issues and Trends