biocapacity The potential productivity of the biologically productive space within a specified country, region, or territory. biologically productive space Areas of land and water capable of supporting photosynthesis at sufficient rates to provide economically useful concentrations of biomass. Marginal and unproductive regions, such as deserts, tundra, and the deep oceans, are excluded. The glo...

The ecological footprint is a quantitative biophysical method commonly used to evaluate the status of regional ecological environment and the degree of sustainable development. In this paper, the concept and calculation process of the ecological footprint are introduced by taking a county located in central China as example. Computational analysis and empirical research of the region’s ecologic...

In their Perspective in this issue of PLOS Biology, Blomqvist et al. [1] set out to demonstrate that ‘‘Ecological Footprint measurements, as currently constructed, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context.’’ Should the reader be confident in this assessment or are Ecological Footprint methods and results adequate to guide sustainability policy? Their P...

land unit (global hectares or gha), representing the bioproductivity of a world-averaged hectare [15,16]. On the global scale, when the footprint of consumption exceeds biocapacity, the interpretation is that humans are exceeding the regenerative capacity of Earth’s ecosystems and therefore depleting stocks of natural capital, a state known as ‘‘over-

The SPIN-ECO Project has analysed the environmental sustainability of the Province of Siena (Italy). A set of different methodologies has been applied to better check the state of the environment. This work discusses the calculation of the Ecological Footprint and the biocapacity, that has enabled us to acquire a deeper understanding of the state of the environment. The Ecological Footprint is ...

In this paper, we modeled the effects of income, agricultural innovation, energy utilization, and biocapacity on Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. We tested validity environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for Nigeria from 1981 to 2014. applied novel dynamic autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) simulations develop conceptual tools policy formulation. The empirical results confirmed EKC fo...

The environment may constrain economic growth potential. In other words, cannot be pursued in spite of ecological limits any longer. Here we present an indicator adjusted by taking into account the current tendency national economies to overcome availability natural resources and dynamics. We combine two indicators: 1) Output Gap, a measure production capacity economy based on difference betwee...