Our Ecological Footprint

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

ix

(1)

Preface

x

INTRODUCTION

1

(6)

Why Worry About Sustainability?

1

(2)

What We Hope to Achieve

3

(1)

A Matter of Perspective

4

(3)

1. ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS FOR BEGINNERS

7

(24)

Obvious but Profound: We Depend on Nature

7

(2)

What is an Ecological Footprint?

9

(4)

So What? The Global Context

13

(3)

Dr. Footnote Explains

16

(12)

The Power of Science

17

(1)

The Wisdom of the Marketplace

18

(2)

The Doctrine of Free Trade

20

(2)

The Uncertain Future

22

(1)

The Technological Fix

23

(2)

The Mantra of Optimism

25

(1)

The Growth of Limits

26

(2)

Planning for a Sustainable Future

28

(3)

2. FOOTPRINTS AND SUSTAINABILITY

31

(30)

The Sustainability Debate: A Simple Concept Leads to Conflicting Strategies

31

(9)

The sustainability challenge

31

(5)

Strong sustainability: the ecological bottom-line condition for sustainability

36

(3)

The Brundtland Commission's proposed response

39

(1)

The Ecological Footprint: A Tool for Planning Toward Sustainability

40

(21)

Measuring progress toward sustainability: the dos and don'ts

40

(8)

Learning from ecology: revisiting human carrying capacity

48

(3)

Turning carrying capacity on its head: human Ecological Footprints

51

(4)

How Ecological Footprint analyses can help advance sustainability

55

(6)

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

61

(64)

Making the Ecological Footprint Idea Work

61

(2)

Calculation Procedure

63

(16)

Consumption categories

66

(3)

Land and land-use categories

69

(8)

The consumption-land-use matrix

77

(2)

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

79

(46)

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

80

(6)

2) How large is the Vancouver regional Footprint?

86

(2)

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

88

(3)

4) Footprinting Great Britain

91

(2)

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

93

(3)

6) A Regional Analysis from Australia

96

(1)

7) What does ecological dependence mean for trade?

96

(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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