Abstract This work aimed to assess Brazilian biomes’ biocapacity (BC) using concepts of the Emergy Ecological Footprint method. Climate and forest cover data were interpolated Kriging In 2016, BC was among largest in world, 42.11 gha / cap. The coverage areas investigated simulated two scenarios: optimistic (with 100% coverage) pessimistic (only 10%). Amazon’s contribution half would reduce by ...

As humanity’s demand on natural resources is increasingly exceeding Earth’s biological rate of regeneration, environmental deterioration such as greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere, ocean acidification and groundwater depletion accelerating. a result, capacity ecosystems to renew biomass, herein referred ‘biocapacity’, becoming material bottleneck for human economy. Yet, economic deve...

A systematic understanding of the dynamics land consumption is extremely important for human well-being and especially vital ecological balance sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. Remarkable use/land cover changes due to climate change, urbanization, food demand have affected spatio-temporal built-up footprints (BLFs) in SSA. By using spatial econometric techniques, this study investigates evoluti...

Biocapacity evaluation is an important part of sustainable development research, but quantitative and spatial future scenario analysis still have model methodological difficulties. Based on the high-resolution Globeland30 dataset, authors analyzed characteristics land use/cover changes Loess Plateau in Northern Shaanxi from 2000 to 2020. Then, comprehensively considering driving factors social ...


 Growing concern about climate change created the need for a globally applied system of accounting to track demand on earth’s resources and their supply. An ecological footprint analysis provides an objective metric impact nation has environment, measured in global hectares/capita. Using data provided by Global Network, we calculate that UAE deficit 9.2 hectares/person but only 9% area re...

Rapid increases in energy consumption and economic growth over the past three decades are considered driving force behind rising environmental degradation, which remain a threat to people healthy environment. This study investigates impact of on quality MINT countries using panel PMG/ARDL modelling technique, Granger causality test spanning from 1971 2017. The empirical results confirm existenc...

As the world urbanizes, the role of cities in determining sustainability outcomes grows in importance. Cities are the dominant form of human habitat, and most of the world's resources are either directly or indirectly consumed in cities. Sustainable city analysis and management requires understanding the demands a city places on a wider geographical area and its ecological resource base. We pre...

This study investigates the impact of various economic, social and environmental indicators on economic growth in South Asian countries. Using data throughout 1990–2017, a panel estimation method is adopted with sophisticated econometric approaches. The obtained results indicate long-term positive effect biological capacity, financial development, human development index, income inequality whil...