Our Ecological Footprint : Reducing Human Impact on the Earth

, by Wackernagel, Mathis

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ISBN: 9780865713123 | 086571312X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/1995

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Summary

Equipped with useful charts and thought-provoking illustrations, this book introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Earth and presents an exciting and powerful tool for measuring and visualising the resources required to sustain households, communities, regions, and nations.

Acknowledgments

(1)

Preface

INTRODUCTION

(6)

Why Worry About Sustainability?

(2)

What We Hope to Achieve

(1)

A Matter of Perspective

(3)

1. ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS FOR BEGINNERS

(24)

Obvious but Profound: We Depend on Nature

(2)

What is an Ecological Footprint?

(4)

So What? The Global Context

(3)

Dr. Footnote Explains

(12)

The Power of Science

(1)

The Wisdom of the Marketplace

(2)

The Doctrine of Free Trade

(2)

The Uncertain Future

(1)

The Technological Fix

(2)

The Mantra of Optimism

(1)

The Growth of Limits

(2)

Planning for a Sustainable Future

(3)

2. FOOTPRINTS AND SUSTAINABILITY

(30)

The Sustainability Debate: A Simple Concept Leads to Conflicting Strategies

(9)

The sustainability challenge

(5)

Strong sustainability: the ecological bottom-line condition for sustainability

(3)

The Brundtland Commission's proposed response

(1)

The Ecological Footprint: A Tool for Planning Toward Sustainability

(21)

Measuring progress toward sustainability: the dos and don'ts

(8)

Learning from ecology: revisiting human carrying capacity

(3)

Turning carrying capacity on its head: human Ecological Footprints

(4)

How Ecological Footprint analyses can help advance sustainability

(6)

3. FUN WITH FOOTPRINTS: METHODS & REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS

(64)

Making the Ecological Footprint Idea Work

(2)

Calculation Procedure

(16)

Consumption categories

(3)

Land and land-use categories

(8)

The consumption-land-use matrix

(2)

The Footprint in Action: Adapting the Calculation Procedure to Specific Applications

(46)

1) How big is the Ecological Footprint of the average North American?

(6)

2) How large is the Vancouver regional Footprint?

(2)

3) A global comparison of Footprint sizes--could everybody on Earth today enjoy North Americans' current ecological standard of living?

(3)

4) Footprinting Great Britain

(2)

5) European examples: The Ecological Footprints of the Netherlands and the Trier Region of Germany

(3)

6) A Regional Analysis from Australia

(1)

7) What does ecological dependence mean for trade?

(4)

8) Is a person's Ecological Footprint related to income?

100

(3)

9) Housing choice affects our Footprints

103

(3)

10) How much ecologically productive land supports commuting by bicycle, bus and car?

106

(2)

11) Did you know that tomatoes leave Footprints?

108

(1)

12) The Ecological Footprint of bridges

109

(2)

13) Learning about sustainability in schools and in the outdoors

111

(2)

14) State of the Environment Reporting

113

(1)

15) Interpreting sustainability: The ecological "Rorschach test"

113

(3)

16) Calculate your own Footprint

116

(2)

17) Eco-labelling: Is your product sustainable?

118

(7)

4. THE SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES

125

(24)

Questioning Conventional Strategies

127

(6)

The Process of Developing Sustainability

133

(7)

The two sustainability poles: ecological stability and human quality of life

133

(2)

Win-win solutions

135

(2)

The cycle of change in decision-making

137

(2)

Three uphill battles to achieve sustainability

139

(1)

Sketching a Vision for a Sustainable Society

140

(9)

5. AVOIDING OVERSHOOT: A SUMMARY

149

(9)

Creating Public Awareness

150

(4)

Developing Sustainability--Locally and Globally

154

(4)

GLOSSARY

158

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