An Ecological Footprint Analysis for Australia
作者:
RodW. Simpson,
Anna Petroeschevsky,
Ian Lowe,
期刊:
Australian Journal of Environmental Management
(Taylor Available online 2000)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 1
页码: 11-18
ISSN:1322-1698
年代: 2000
DOI:10.1080/14486563.2000.10648479
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
An Ecological Footprint is defined as the area of land needed to produce the natural resources a population consumes and to assimilate the waste that population produces. By providing a link between consumption and lifestyle and available ecological space, the Ecological Footprint illustrates the concepts of carrying capacity and sustainability. This article presents the results of a detailed study of Australia. The results indicate the Ecological Footprint of the average Australian is approximately 6 hectares per capita. This is more than 4 times the globally available ‘fair share’, placing Australia among the top five consuming nations in the world. This result highlights the unsustainable global nature of the Australian lifestyle, particularly the level of consumption of energy and animal products, with large inequities between Western countries such as Australia, and developing countries.
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