Abstract We analyse the relationship between individuals' subjective wellbeing (SWB) and measures of their country's sustainability. SWB data are sourced from World Values Survey; sustainability is measured by ecological footprint (EF) components Bank's adjusted net savings (ANS) series. ANS, a measure weak sustainability, represents changes in capital stock including financial, physical, human...

Human activities threaten the future of ecosystem by emitting pollution to air, water, and soil. Considering increasing ecological footprint (EF), study focuses on investigating role life expectancy hydropower consumption controlling also income, trade openness, globalization environment under environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for Turkey during 1971–2018. In this context, performs re...

While the majority of businesses focus on economic repercussions of business decisions, almost all Civil Engineering infrastructure projects have an impact on the environment as well. The most traditional method of analyzing environmental impacts of projects is through a Life Cycle Analysis, which tracks emissions such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2) or Greenhouse Gasses through the production, constru...

A spatial-temporal panel dataset was collected from 101 countries during 2006–2016. Using partial correlation (PC) and ordinary (OR) analyses, this research examines the relationship between ecological footprint (EF) subjective well-being (SWB) to measure environmental impacts on people’s happiness. Gross domestic product (GDP), urbanization rate (UR), literacy (LR), youth life expectancy (YLE)...

Currently, most concrete industries use conventional cement (Ordinary Portland Cement) as a binding material which involves natural resource depletion, colossal CO2 emissions, and huge energy supply. The present study addresses this critical issue by using stone dust (sun-dried calcinated) water treatment sludge to replace partly in M20-grade production. environmental impact of ready-mixed (RMC...

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...

Rapid urbanization significantly impacts natural resource demands and waste management in the construction sector. In this study, a novel methodology has been developed that could assess overall environmental impact of building during its lifespan by considering resources such as materials, energy use, emissions, water, manpower, wastes. The proposed method can estimate life cycle ecological fo...

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...

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in the national economies of EU member states. This economic activity has an inevitable environmental impact; however, performance indicators are mostly measured at larger companies. Since ecological footprint (EF) is suitable measure unsustainability, this paper considers it as impact SMEs. An EF calculator for SMEs was develop...