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The Ecological Footprint as a Sustainability MetricCase Study – Findings

The Ecological Footprint as a Sustainability Metric: Case Study – Findings [In this chapter, the results of the case studyCase study are presented. This chapter considers the findings in light of the demographics of study participantsParticipants and conveys the follow-up interview data in addition to the results generated by the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator). The findings reveal an Ecological FootprintEcological footprint (EF) of nearly 3.0 global hectares, that is slightly greater than the national score of 2.7 global hectares based on the 2020 Edition of the Global Footprint Network’s National Footprint Accounts. Consequently, the average Earth Overshoot Day was similar to the national result, especially for 2020. There were very few cases where people in the corridor were living within 1 Earth. On average, their lifestyle required closer to 2 Earths. IncomeIncomes was found to covary strongly in a linear relationship with both the Ecological and carbon Footprints. The latter (cF) and crop landCrop land were the most critical componentsComponents, although grazing landGrazing lands and fishing groundsFishing grounds showed the most variance. The consumption categoryConsumptioncategories with the highest average was foodFoods – it also had the highest standard deviation among these categoriesConsumptioncategories. The main reasons for this will be taken up in the next chapter (Chap. 6), along with the solutions from the outputs of the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator). The towns in the corridor scored similarly on the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator), although there were sizeable standard deviations in the responses.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Ecological Footprint as a Sustainability MetricCase Study – Findings

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-62665-5
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[In this chapter, the results of the case studyCase study are presented. This chapter considers the findings in light of the demographics of study participantsParticipants and conveys the follow-up interview data in addition to the results generated by the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator). The findings reveal an Ecological FootprintEcological footprint (EF) of nearly 3.0 global hectares, that is slightly greater than the national score of 2.7 global hectares based on the 2020 Edition of the Global Footprint Network’s National Footprint Accounts. Consequently, the average Earth Overshoot Day was similar to the national result, especially for 2020. There were very few cases where people in the corridor were living within 1 Earth. On average, their lifestyle required closer to 2 Earths. IncomeIncomes was found to covary strongly in a linear relationship with both the Ecological and carbon Footprints. The latter (cF) and crop landCrop land were the most critical componentsComponents, although grazing landGrazing lands and fishing groundsFishing grounds showed the most variance. The consumption categoryConsumptioncategories with the highest average was foodFoods – it also had the highest standard deviation among these categoriesConsumptioncategories. The main reasons for this will be taken up in the next chapter (Chap. 6), along with the solutions from the outputs of the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator). The towns in the corridor scored similarly on the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator), although there were sizeable standard deviations in the responses.]

Published: Jan 28, 2021

Keywords: Footprint Calculator; Ecological Footprint; Number of Earths; Global hectares; Footprint components; Land types; carbon Footprint; Consumption categories; Earth Overshoot Day

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