Overview
- A case study on Costa Rica as a developing nation
- Examines Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity accounting as a sustainability metric
- Discusses Ecological Footprint as a biophysical indicator
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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About the author
Dr. Mary J. Thornbush is presently a researcher of the Ecological Footprint Initiative based in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Canada. She has over 80 publications in the areas of applied geomorphology and environmental and urban sustainability. Her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford addressed urban sustainability through a study of air emissions from transport in central Oxford and investigated their impacts on the weathering of its historical limestone buildings. Her relevant publications include a special journal issue on Geography, Urban Geomorphology and Sustainability in Area (2015) as well as books such as Vehicular Air Pollution and Urban Sustainability: An Assessment from Central Oxford, UK (2015, Springer) and a volume on Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities (2018, Elsevier).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ecological Footprint as a Sustainability Metric
Book Subtitle: Implications for Sustainability
Authors: Mary J. Thornbush
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62666-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62665-5Published: 28 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62666-2Published: 27 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2191-5547
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 107
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental Geography, Ecology, Natural Resources, Environmental Management, Environmental Economics