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The Ecological Footprint as a Sustainability Metric

Implications for Sustainability

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Authors:
  1. Mary J. Thornbush

    1. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada

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  • 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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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-29

  3. The Ecological Footprint

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    Pages 31-40

  4. Biocapacity Accounting

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    Pages 41-49

  5. Case Study – Methods

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    Pages 51-66

  6. Case Study – Findings

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    Pages 67-80

  7. Implications

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    Pages 81-96

  8. Conclusion

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    Pages 97-103

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 105-107
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About this book

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica. By doing so, it is possible to track changes as well as perhaps link these to overarching global issues, such as trade, globalization, and food security, among other emergent topics based findings stemming from this methodology. Based on a timeseries since 1961, it is possible to track cross-temporal changes of land-type categories (for crop land, grazing land, forest land, fishing ground, built-up land, and carbon) of the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity conveying whether a country is in ecological deficit and what may be contributing to such a trend

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada

    Mary J. Thornbush

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).


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