A5032460786- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Climate change and permafrost
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Water Resources and Sustainability
- Mining and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Evaluation and Optimization Models
Ecolab (United States)
2021
United States Government Accountability Office
2015-2020
The University of Texas at El Paso
2011-2019
Ministry of Natural Resources
2019
China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
2019
Library Network
2014
Ecological Footprint accounting quantifies the supply and demand of Earth’s biocapacity. The National Accounts (NFA) are most widely used (EF) dataset, provide results for countries world from 1961 to 2014, based primarily on publicly available UN datasets. Here, we review evolution NFA, describe quantify effects improvements that have been implemented into accounts since 2012 edition, latest global trends. Comparing over six editions NFAs, find time-series trends in remain stable, common...
The unsustainable use of our planet's resources needs to be tackled from different angles and multiple levels governance. As the human population urbanizes, having access reliable, cross-cutting, quantitative city-level sustainability metrics is key understanding environmental impacts urban dwellers role cities can play in 21st century challenge. Framing pillar with an overarching metric like Ecological Footprint informs stakeholders citizens about a city's overall pressure on biosphere. In...
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the most significant global effort so far to advance sustainable development. Bertelsmann Stiftung and Solutions Network (SDSN) released an SDG index assess countries' average performance on SDGs. Ranking high strongly correlates with per person demand nature (or "Footprints"), low ranking Footprints, making evident that SDGs as expressed today vastly underperform sustainability. Such underperformance is anti-poor because lowest-income people...
Contemporary socio-environmental problems such as the reduced availability of natural resources, loss biodiversity, soil degradation, pollution, an unprecedented population growth, mass migration people to cities, and urban sprawl may be associated with consequences economic infinite growth paradigm on a finite planet. Despite international goals for improving spatial environmental management, current future developments are continuously planned without consideration biophysical limits...
The food system is increasingly acknowledged as the single largest reason for humans' transgression of key planetary limits and it gaining centrality in our societal run-up towards a sustainable future, especially at city level. In Portugal, country characterized by high meat fish consumption, noticeable wastage, urbanization level, fully understanding then transforming priority. Here we investigate significance comparison to other daily anthropogenic demands current sourcing resource...
The increasing rate of urbanization along with its socio-environmental impact are major global challenges. Therefore, there is a need to assess the boundaries growth for future development cities by inclusion assessment environmental carrying capacity (ECC) into spatial management. purpose resource dependence given entity. ECC usually assessed based on indicators such as ecological footprint (EF) and biocapacity (BC). EF measure biologically productive areas demanded human consumption waste...
Mainstream competitiveness and international development analyses pay little attention to the significance of a country’s resource security for its economic performance. This paper challenges this neglect, examining implications countries dynamics, particularly low-income countries. It explores typologies patterns in context those countries’ prospects. To begin, explains why it uses Ecological Footprint biocapacity accounting analysis. Data used analysis stem from Global Network’s 2018...
Abstract The European Union (EU) plans to decarbonize the region by 2050. As highlighted Green Deal and Farm Fork Strategy, food systems are essential for this transition. Here we investigate resource dependence carbon emissions of EU-27’s from 2004 2014 via an ecological footprint (EF)-extended multi-regional input–output approach, accounting demand supply (including trade), considering multiple externalities. Food contributes towards almost a third region’s EF, appropriates over half its...
Sustainable management and informed policy making at the sub-national level requires an understanding of regional resource base regeneration demand it places on wider geographical areas. Ecological Footprint is one most widely used accepted ecological accounting methodologies available for calculating multiple consumption categories such as food, housing transportation. Japan's 47 prefectures are diverse in their urbanization ageing situations provide opportunity relationship between...
Fungal endophytes of tall fescue, Festuca arundinacea, have been found to synthesize toxic alkaloids which function as an anti-herbivore defence. Ingestion infected F. arundinacea causes widespread losses the US livestock industry. We investigated whether fungal endophyte Acremonium in congeneric species, rubra, may be playing a similar role on four Scottish islands. Hirta, island St. Kilda group, is grazed by population feral Soay sheep crashes every 3-5 years with up 60% mortality. rubra...
Abstract High‐latitude climate change has impacted vegetation productivity, composition, and distribution across tundra ecosystems. Over the past few decades in northern Alaska, emergent macrophytes have increased cover density, coincident with air water temperature, active layer depth, nutrient availability. Unraveling covarying environmental controls influencing long‐term trajectories is paramount for advancing our predictive understanding of causes consequences warming permafrost Within a...
Arctic regions hold considerable reservoirs of soil organic carbon. However, most this carbon is in a potential labile state, and expected changes temperature water availability could strongly affect the balance tundra ecosystems. Plant community composition are closely tied to microtopography position relative table. We evaluated CO2 fluxes moss contribution ecosystem photosynthesis response fine-scale topography across drained lake bed Barrow, Alaska, during two contrasting growing...
Analysis of time series imagery from satellite and aircraft platforms is useful for detecting land cover change at plot to regional scales. In this study, we created multi-temporal high spatial resolution maps seven locations in the Beringian Arctic assessed over time. Land classifications were site specific mostly aligned with a soil moisture gradient. Time varied between 60 21 years. Four five landscapes studied Alaska underwent an expansion drier classes while two studies Chukotka, Russia...
Human pressure on ecosystems is among the major drivers of biodiversity loss. As plays a key role in supporting human enterprise, its decline puts well-being societies at risk. Halting loss therefore policy priority, as reflected 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets under strategic goal A. The Ecological Footprint has become widely used metric for natural capital and ecosystem accounting, frequently cited sustainability debate, where it often tracking human-induced pressures biodiversity. Given...