extended abstract 1. introduction tourism industry is known as one of the most thriving, attractive, job- creating and greatest industries in third millennium. the growth of this industry, despite its many positive economic advantages for hosting communities, has had some adverse consequences particularly on environmental aspects that have led to increased concerns among the experts and planner...

The existing index systems on sustainable evaluation are mostly based on a multi index comprehensive evaluation method. The main disadvantage of this approach is that the selection and assignment of evaluation indexes are greatly influenced by subjective factors, which can result in poor comparability of results. By contrast, the Footprint Family (including ecological footprint, carbon footprin...

Article history: Received 27 February 2008 Received in revised form 16 July 2008 Accepted 22 July 2008 Available online 29 August 2008 The ecological footprint is a measure of the resources necessary to produce the goods that an individual or population consumes. It is also used as a measure of sustainability, though evidence suggests that it falls short. The assumptions behind footprint calcul...

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...

An important indicator of sustainable land use, the ecological footprint measure has proved unsuitable for many planning applications because of the limited availability of impact data at the local level of cities and counties and because of an inability to estimate the ecological footprint of future development scenarios. In light of these limitations, this paper presents a methodology for mea...

Recovery of used products is receiving much attention recently due to growing environmental concerns.In this paper, we address the carbon footprint basedon problem arising in closed-loop supply chain where returned products are collected from customers. These returned products can either be disposed or be remanufactured to be sold as new ones again. Here, we formulate a comprehensive closed-loo...

Environmental management research on the hotel industry has touched little upon the topic of environmental performance assessment. This study uses ecological footprint models to assess natural resource consumption in the hotel industry and the burden it puts on the environment. Findings of the study indicated that: (1) As the star rating goes up, hotels tend to consume greater amounts of resour...