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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Evaluating the Use of Natural Capital with the Ecological Footprint: Applications in Sweden and Subregions
Beteiligte:
Wackernagel, Mathis
Erschienen:
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1999
Erschienen in:Ambio
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0044-7447;
1654-7209
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Beschreibung:
<p>The ecological footprint assesses people's use of natural capital by comparing their resource consumption and waste production to the regenerative capacity of the earth. Previous studies based on United Nations statistics have shown that humanity's use of natural capital exceeds the global biocapacity. They have also shown a great spread in the size of people's ecological footprints. In this study, which focuses on Sweden, we have improved the method of footprint and biocapacity calculations and demonstrate how a national footprint can be used for regions and even catchment areas. We include for the first time, areas for absorbing plant nutrients leaching from farmland and for providing domestic water. In this paper, we describe the method, compare it to those used earlier by others and ourselves, and discuss its possibilities and limitations.</p>