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The Ecological Footprint as a Sustainability MetricImplications

The Ecological Footprint as a Sustainability Metric: Implications [It is important to consider the ramifications of the fieldwork study findings for the sampled study area in comparison to Costa Rica at the national level and globally to the world. This chapter revisits the fieldwork results from the study area in the Alexander Skutch Biological CorridorAlexander Skutch Biological Corridor (‘corridor’) and examines the solutions presented by the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator) for the categories of city, energy, foodFoods, and population. It is important to do this because local–regional lifestyle or cultural trends in the corridor operate to lower the Ecological FootprintEcological footprint (EF) (or augment biocapacityBiocapacity), offering lessons learned or solutions. The chapter then draws upon the lessons learned from these solutions as well as uniquely from the study area based on the fieldwork findings. As part of this assessment is a sensitivity analysis based on three scenarios stemming from questions in the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator). The findings reveal housingHousing to be the most affected in the sensitivity analysis, followed by transportation, and lastly by foodFoods categories. Finally, the contributions of the field study as a case studyCase study justify the research and present the implications of the case studyCase study.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Ecological Footprint as a Sustainability MetricImplications

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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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81 –96
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10.1007/978-3-030-62666-2_6
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[It is important to consider the ramifications of the fieldwork study findings for the sampled study area in comparison to Costa Rica at the national level and globally to the world. This chapter revisits the fieldwork results from the study area in the Alexander Skutch Biological CorridorAlexander Skutch Biological Corridor (‘corridor’) and examines the solutions presented by the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator) for the categories of city, energy, foodFoods, and population. It is important to do this because local–regional lifestyle or cultural trends in the corridor operate to lower the Ecological FootprintEcological footprint (EF) (or augment biocapacityBiocapacity), offering lessons learned or solutions. The chapter then draws upon the lessons learned from these solutions as well as uniquely from the study area based on the fieldwork findings. As part of this assessment is a sensitivity analysis based on three scenarios stemming from questions in the Footprint CalculatorFootprint Calculator (Ecological Footprint Calculator). The findings reveal housingHousing to be the most affected in the sensitivity analysis, followed by transportation, and lastly by foodFoods categories. Finally, the contributions of the field study as a case studyCase study justify the research and present the implications of the case studyCase study.]

Published: Jan 28, 2021

Keywords: Case study; Field study; Data quality; Lessons learned; Sensitivity analysis; Cultural implications; Lifestyle choices; Rural environment; Socioeconomics

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