Since the beginning of 2020, worldwide COVID-19 pandemic made it necessary to change our lifestyles (e.g., restrictions on transport or travelling and forced telework). This has also changed environmental impact lifestyles. To quantify that impact, we used surveys calculate Ecological Footprint (EF) concern Belgian respondents in 2021 compared this EF-situation 2017, before COVID-19. We observe...

Nature reserves are established to protect ecosystems and rare flora and fauna. However, with the rapid development of the social economy, many nature reserves are facing enormous pressures from human activities. The assessment of the sustainability of nature reserves is a fundamental task for the planning and management of such areas. In this study, the sustainability of China’s 319 national n...

of Alberta) for their valuable conceptual and editorial input. Abbreviations: AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome BAU business as usual EF ecological footprint EFA eclogical footprint analysis EKCs Environmental Kuznets Curves GDP gross domestic product 3 HEADLAMP Linkage Methods for Environment and Health Analysis, HEADLAMP Project HIV human immunodeficiency virus IA integrated assessment ...

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...

To reduce the environmental impact of construction sector, sustainable strategies for managing in-use phase buildings must be integrated urgently. Current green certifications present several limitations and, in particular, do not help determine where to focus reducing demand buildings. Among existing indicators, ecological footprint (EF) is most useful assessing buildings’ performance through ...

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...