The document discusses several issues with using the ecological footprint (EF) as a measure of sustainability. It highlights that EF fails to capture important factors like land degradation and the benefits of intensive agricultural production. It also argues that EF comparisons between countries can be misleading as boundaries are arbitrarily determined. Overall, the document asserts that EF is not an ideal tool for measuring sustainability due to these limitations and its failure to be fully inclusive of other relevant indicators.
Ecological Footprint assessment helps to identify what activities are having the biggest impact on nature and opens up possibilities to reduce our impact and live within the means of One Planet. It provides measurement of collective consumption of the population whether they are exceeding the Earth’s ecological limits or not. It is compared with Biocapacity which measures the amount of available bioproductive resources in ecosystem. The introduction of Ecological Footprint has been very necessary for the context of Bangladesh especially in Dhaka as the endless demand and the unplanned consumption pattern of the population here have been producing a very unsustainable situation.
The Ecological Footprint is a tool that measures humanity's demand on nature against the Earth's supply. It compares our consumption to the planet's biocapacity. In 2005, global footprint exceeded biocapacity, with humanity using 1.5 planets worth of resources. Canada has a footprint higher than world average but remains an "ecological creditor" with more domestic biocapacity. Ontario's 2005 per capita footprint of 8.4 global hectares is higher than Canada's average and would require 4 planets if everyone lived at that rate. Its larger footprint relates partly to consumption levels but also less efficient industries like manufacturing.
The document discusses the concept of ecological footprint as a sustainability indicator. It defines ecological footprint as a measure of human demand on nature, and biocapacity as the capacity of ecosystems to provide resources and absorb waste. It notes that currently humanity uses 1.5 planets worth of resources annually. Ecological footprint accounting can track whether a population's demand exceeds the available biocapacity or results in an ecological deficit or overshoot. The indicator is useful for governments to assess resource use and guide more sustainable policies.
Ecological footprints measure the extent of biologically productive land and sea area required to produce the resources an individual, population or activity consumes and to absorb the corresponding waste, using prevailing technology levels. They are measured in global hectares, where one hectare represents the world average productivity. Current estimates indicate that humans are overshooting Earth's carrying capacity by 25-50% and that at current population growth and consumption rates, we will need 1.5 Earths by 2030 to sustain our footprint.
This document provides an overview and summary of the 2010 edition of the Ecological Footprint Atlas published by Global Footprint Network. It introduces the concept of the Ecological Footprint and how it is used to calculate humanity's demand on the biosphere. The atlas contains updated National Footprint Accounts that measure the ecological footprint and biocapacity of individual nations. It summarizes the global and regional results and trends revealed by these accounts.
This document provides an overview of the ecological footprint, a tool created by William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel to measure human demand on the biosphere. The ecological footprint measures the amount of biologically productive land and sea area required to support human consumption and waste absorption. It indicates that humanity is currently in global ecological overshoot, using more than what the Earth can regenerate. The document discusses the methodology, components, and implications of ecological footprint accounting.
This document discusses ecological footprints and how to measure them. An ecological footprint calculates the amount of productive land and water required to support a population based on its consumption and waste production using current technology. The document notes that global footprints exceeded the Earth's carrying capacity in the mid-1980s. It provides ecological footprint sizes for various countries, with the highest footprints belonging to Qatar, the USA, and Australia.
The document provides an overview of the ecological footprint concept. It defines ecological footprint as a method that measures human demand on nature against the Earth's biological capacity to regenerate resources and absorb waste. Key points include:
- Humanity's ecological footprint has exceeded the Earth's biocapacity since the 1970s, meaning more than 1 Earth is needed each year to replenish what is used.
- The ecological footprint is calculated by adding up the productive land and sea area required to produce the resources an individual, group, or activity consumes and absorb their waste, expressed in global hectares.
- Many countries and individuals have an ecological deficit, using more than what local ecosystems can regenerate.
Ecological Footprint assessment helps to identify what activities are having the biggest impact on nature and opens up possibilities to reduce our impact and live within the means of One Planet. It provides measurement of collective consumption of the population whether they are exceeding the Earth’s ecological limits or not. It is compared with Biocapacity which measures the amount of available bioproductive resources in ecosystem. The introduction of Ecological Footprint has been very necessary for the context of Bangladesh especially in Dhaka as the endless demand and the unplanned consumption pattern of the population here have been producing a very unsustainable situation.
The Ecological Footprint is a tool that measures humanity's demand on nature against the Earth's supply. It compares our consumption to the planet's biocapacity. In 2005, global footprint exceeded biocapacity, with humanity using 1.5 planets worth of resources. Canada has a footprint higher than world average but remains an "ecological creditor" with more domestic biocapacity. Ontario's 2005 per capita footprint of 8.4 global hectares is higher than Canada's average and would require 4 planets if everyone lived at that rate. Its larger footprint relates partly to consumption levels but also less efficient industries like manufacturing.
The document discusses the concept of ecological footprint as a sustainability indicator. It defines ecological footprint as a measure of human demand on nature, and biocapacity as the capacity of ecosystems to provide resources and absorb waste. It notes that currently humanity uses 1.5 planets worth of resources annually. Ecological footprint accounting can track whether a population's demand exceeds the available biocapacity or results in an ecological deficit or overshoot. The indicator is useful for governments to assess resource use and guide more sustainable policies.
Ecological footprints measure the extent of biologically productive land and sea area required to produce the resources an individual, population or activity consumes and to absorb the corresponding waste, using prevailing technology levels. They are measured in global hectares, where one hectare represents the world average productivity. Current estimates indicate that humans are overshooting Earth's carrying capacity by 25-50% and that at current population growth and consumption rates, we will need 1.5 Earths by 2030 to sustain our footprint.
This document provides an overview and summary of the 2010 edition of the Ecological Footprint Atlas published by Global Footprint Network. It introduces the concept of the Ecological Footprint and how it is used to calculate humanity's demand on the biosphere. The atlas contains updated National Footprint Accounts that measure the ecological footprint and biocapacity of individual nations. It summarizes the global and regional results and trends revealed by these accounts.
This document provides an overview of the ecological footprint, a tool created by William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel to measure human demand on the biosphere. The ecological footprint measures the amount of biologically productive land and sea area required to support human consumption and waste absorption. It indicates that humanity is currently in global ecological overshoot, using more than what the Earth can regenerate. The document discusses the methodology, components, and implications of ecological footprint accounting.
This document discusses ecological footprints and how to measure them. An ecological footprint calculates the amount of productive land and water required to support a population based on its consumption and waste production using current technology. The document notes that global footprints exceeded the Earth's carrying capacity in the mid-1980s. It provides ecological footprint sizes for various countries, with the highest footprints belonging to Qatar, the USA, and Australia.
The document provides an overview of the ecological footprint concept. It defines ecological footprint as a method that measures human demand on nature against the Earth's biological capacity to regenerate resources and absorb waste. Key points include:
- Humanity's ecological footprint has exceeded the Earth's biocapacity since the 1970s, meaning more than 1 Earth is needed each year to replenish what is used.
- The ecological footprint is calculated by adding up the productive land and sea area required to produce the resources an individual, group, or activity consumes and absorb their waste, expressed in global hectares.
- Many countries and individuals have an ecological deficit, using more than what local ecosystems can regenerate.
The document discusses ecological footprints, which measure the amount of productive land and water required to support an individual or entity's lifestyle and waste absorption. It provides data on countries' ecological footprints in global hectares per capita and deficit. The global average footprint exceeds biocapacity by 1.1 global hectares per person. Ecological footprints are estimated based on categories like carbon, food, and goods/services. They help educate about overconsumption and sustainability. Reducing footprints involves actions like using renewable energy and reducing waste and driving.
This document discusses the critical connection between water security and ecosystem services. It begins by introducing the concepts of sustainable development, ecosystem services, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. It then explores the ecosystem approach to water resources management and the role of freshwater resources in supporting human activities and ecosystem functions. The document presents several case studies that demonstrate lessons learned about habitat rehabilitation, pollution control, environmental flows, stakeholder involvement, and integrated watershed management in achieving both water security and sustainable ecosystem services. It concludes by recommending various response options to promote the management of balanced ecosystem services and water security.
Limits to acceptable change and ecological footprintAMALDASKH
This document discusses two tools for sustainable tourism: Limits to Acceptable Change (LAC) and Ecological Footprint. LAC is a process that requires managers to define desired resource conditions and take actions to maintain them, allowing some level of change but minimizing impacts. Key factors to consider with LAC include assessing impacts, agreeing on tolerable changes, monitoring impacts, and taking action if standards are exceeded. Ecological Footprint measures the amount of productive land and sea area required to support a population's resource consumption and waste, helping identify unsustainable trends. The document provides examples of how these tools were applied to measure the footprint of the Kingfisher Bay Resort in Australia.
1. The UNEP water policy and strategy aims to implement UNEP's mandates on water as defined by resolutions from the UNEP Governing Council and UN General Assembly.
2. Key mandates include contributing to integrated water resources management and the Millennium Development Goals.
3. The strategy outlines strategic principles, key components of UNEP's freshwater work, and mechanisms for operationalizing and monitoring progress in assessment, management, and cooperation on freshwater issues.
Indicator approach to understanding resilience of Socio-ecological Production...Bioversity International
Presentation by Kaoru Ichikawa from UNU-IAS and the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI).
This was presented during a seminar hosted at Bioversity International on 'The Indicators of Resilience in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)' in January 2014.
Find out more: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/agricultural-ecosystems/landscapes/
GreenATP ucla anderson business school mp totten 06 11Michael P Totten
Slides from seminar. See article for details: http://www.scribd.com/mtotten6756
Summary:
Humanity’s unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billions of people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most of history. Unfortunately, this economic growth has triggered unprecedented se- curity challenges of global and historical magnitude: more absolute poor than any time in human history, the sixth largest extinction spasm of life on earth, climate destabilization with mega-catastrophic consequences, and multi-trillion dollar wars over access to energy. These multiple, inextricably interwoven chal- lenges have low probability of being solved if decision makers maintain the strong propensity to think and act as if life is linear, has no carrying capacity limits, uncertainty is controllable, the future free of surprises, planning is predictable and compartmentalized into silos, and Gaussian distributions are taken as the norm while fat-tail futures are ignored. Although the future holds irreducible uncertainties, it is not fated. The emergence of Internet availability to one-third of humanity and access by most of humanity within a decade has spawned the Web analogue of a ‘Cambrian explosion’ of speciation in knowledge applica- tions. Among the most prodigious have been collaboration innovation networks (COINs) reflecting a diversity of ‘genome’ types, facilitating a myriad of collective intelligence crowd-swarming phenomena (Malone T, Laubacher R, Dellarocas C. The Collective Intelligence Genome. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring; 2010, Vol. 51). COINs are essential tools for accelerating and scaling transformational solutions (positive tipping points) to the wicked problems confronting humanity. Web COINs enable acceleration of multiple-benefit innovations and solutions to these problems that permeate the nested clusters of linked nonlinear complex adaptive systems comprising the global biosphere and socioeconomy [Raford N. How to build a collective intelligence platform to crowdsource almost anything. Available at: http:news.noahraford.com.
Fighting through community participation based on vegetative conservation app...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a study on reducing sedimentation in Wonogiri Reservoir in Indonesia through community participation and vegetative conservation approaches. The study focuses on how five types of capital (social, human, financial, natural, vegetative) and government incentives affect local farmers' conservation decisions. It finds that the five capitals and government incentives significantly influence farmers to participate in watershed conservation activities to prevent sedimentation, especially establishing grass vegetation which also provides economic benefits. The Keduang Sub-Watershed contributes greatly to sediment deposition in the reservoir due to environmental damage from unsustainable agricultural practices.
The document provides background on brownfield sites and contamination in the United States. It discusses the environmental and public health problems posed by brownfield sites, including ecosystem and human health impacts. Common contaminants found at brownfield sites like lead, VOCs, and asbestos are profiled. The document then outlines approaches to remediating brownfield sites, including risk assessment and common techniques like soil vapor extraction. It discusses how remediation decisions must be made on a site-by-site basis. The role of Groundwork Trusts in equitable brownfield redevelopment is covered. Finally, the Groundwork USA Trust Act of 2015, which would provide funding for nonprofit remediation efforts, is introduced.
Claire's presentation on biodiversity loss was the best of all of my students'. She used good analysis and exposition, and cited all sources correctly.
This document summarizes a presentation about the final report from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project on water and wetlands. The presentation covers: an overview of TEEB and the TEEB water and wetlands project; the benefits humans derive from water and wetlands and what we risk losing; measuring ecosystem services to improve management; integrating the values of water and wetlands into decision making; and recommendations to transform our approach. Wetlands provide important ecosystem services supporting water security and other benefits, yet have been degraded, resulting in losses to biodiversity, human well-being and economies. The TEEB report provides evidence on the high economic values of wetland ecosystem services compared to other
The document discusses the economic costs of invasive alien species (IAS) in Europe. It finds that over 10,000 alien species have been reported in Europe, with 10% causing documented ecological impacts and 13% causing documented economic impacts. IAS are known to negatively impact biodiversity, ecosystem services, and economic activities. Some estimates put the environmental and economic costs of IAS in Europe at over 12.5 billion euros per year. IAS have caused declines in native species populations, changes to habitat and ecosystem functioning, and losses to industries like forestry and fisheries. Their introductions and impacts are increasing due to factors like global trade and climate change.
The document discusses ecological footprint, which measures the amount of productive land and sea area required to support a person or population's lifestyle and consumption. It can be used to measure the environmental sustainability of urban or rural areas. The ecological footprint of a city is calculated based on land and sea requirements for housing, transportation, food, goods, services, and other factors. Urbanization tends to increase ecological footprints due to higher resource consumption. The document also provides data on the ecological footprints of various cities and nations from studies conducted in 1997 and 2007.
The presentation discusses mainstreaming the economics of nature and the relationship between nature and the green economy. It provides 3 key points:
1) Mainstreaming the economics of nature involves making nature's values visible across sectors and policies to seek synergies. Protected areas like Natura 2000 offer biodiversity protection as well as economic benefits like tourism and cultural identity.
2) Natura 2000 provides substantial economic benefits estimated at €200-300 billion annually from services like carbon storage, tourism, and recreation. It also supports over 12,000 jobs in Spain.
3) Transitioning to a green economy requires recognizing nature's role in supporting the economy and human well-being over the long-term through ecosystem services.
Nature-based solutions for agricultural water management and food security (W...FAO
This document discusses nature-based solutions (NBS) for agricultural water management and food security. It provides an overview of a webinar series on scaling up adaptation in the agricultural sectors that included a webinar on NBS for agricultural water management. The webinar agenda covered an FAO discussion paper on the topic, presentations on NBS in the UN World Water Development Report and guidance from the Convention on Biological Diversity, and a case study on wasabi cultivation in Japan. The document discusses definitions of NBS, different types of NBS interventions, and concludes that while NBS are not a panacea, they can make an important contribution to addressing upcoming water challenges if certain requirements for success are met, such
Water-Food-Energy: well-being indicators for a better quality of life - Fabio...WWF ITALIA
This document discusses linking the water-food-energy nexus to well-being indicators for a better quality of life. It proposes a framework to analyze the nexus through domains of well-being like health, environment, labor and economic well-being. The nexus is shown to have direct impacts on health and the environment, and quasi-direct impacts on labor and economic well-being. Drivers like education, research, politics and quality of services can impact the nexus and domains of well-being. Features from Italy are provided as examples, like food and environmental pyramids, and data on health, land use, employment and income. The conclusion is that effective nexus management can strongly affect well-being by
The document discusses how rainwater harvesting can support both ecosystem services and human well-being by increasing water availability through collection and storage of rainfall. It notes that rainfall and water are fundamental to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and determine their productivity, while also meeting increasing human demands. The document explores how rainwater harvesting may help address challenges of managing water resources and ecosystems under climate change and development pressures.
The ecological footprint calculates the amount of land and water needed to produce the resources humans consume and absorb the waste generated. It shows that people currently use resources 50% faster than the Earth can regenerate them, consuming over 1.5 planets worth of resources each year. Reducing consumption would decrease the human impact on the environment by making our ecological footprint smaller.
The ecological footprint is a measure that compares human demand on natural resources with Earth's capacity to regenerate those resources. It estimates the amount of biologically productive land and sea area required to support human consumption and waste absorption. Key factors that determine ecological footprint include energy and resource consumption, land and sea use, and levels of biodiversity and carbon emissions. Most recent data from 2010 showed that humanity's ecological footprint exceeded the Earth's capacity to regenerate resources by August 21st that year, the date defined as "Earth Overshoot Day". The carbon footprint specifically measures the amount of greenhouse gases produced through activities like energy use, transportation and industry. Atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have substantially increased since
The average ecological footprint for a New Zealander is 7.7 global hectares per person, up from 5.9 global hectares in 2006. However, the world only has an average of 2.1 global hectares available per person. The ecological footprint measures how much land and water area is required to produce the resources a human population consumes and absorb its wastes, using current technology. Since the 1980s, humanity has been in ecological overshoot, using more than what the Earth can regenerate each year. It now takes 1.5 years for the Earth to regenerate what humanity uses in a single year. Measuring footprints helps assess pressure on the planet and support living within Earth's limits
El documento presenta información sobre la geografía, política, economía, cultura y lugares turísticos de Argentina. Argentina es el segundo país más grande de América del Sur y está compuesto por 23 provincias que operan bajo un gobierno federal central. La economía se basa en la agricultura, incluyendo la soja, el ganado y el vino, e industrias como la automotriz y la petrolera. La cultura argentina refleja influencias europeas y el fútbol, el tango y la carne son símbolos nacionales importantes. Algun
The document discusses ecological footprints, which measure the amount of productive land and water required to support an individual or entity's lifestyle and waste absorption. It provides data on countries' ecological footprints in global hectares per capita and deficit. The global average footprint exceeds biocapacity by 1.1 global hectares per person. Ecological footprints are estimated based on categories like carbon, food, and goods/services. They help educate about overconsumption and sustainability. Reducing footprints involves actions like using renewable energy and reducing waste and driving.
This document discusses the critical connection between water security and ecosystem services. It begins by introducing the concepts of sustainable development, ecosystem services, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. It then explores the ecosystem approach to water resources management and the role of freshwater resources in supporting human activities and ecosystem functions. The document presents several case studies that demonstrate lessons learned about habitat rehabilitation, pollution control, environmental flows, stakeholder involvement, and integrated watershed management in achieving both water security and sustainable ecosystem services. It concludes by recommending various response options to promote the management of balanced ecosystem services and water security.
Limits to acceptable change and ecological footprintAMALDASKH
This document discusses two tools for sustainable tourism: Limits to Acceptable Change (LAC) and Ecological Footprint. LAC is a process that requires managers to define desired resource conditions and take actions to maintain them, allowing some level of change but minimizing impacts. Key factors to consider with LAC include assessing impacts, agreeing on tolerable changes, monitoring impacts, and taking action if standards are exceeded. Ecological Footprint measures the amount of productive land and sea area required to support a population's resource consumption and waste, helping identify unsustainable trends. The document provides examples of how these tools were applied to measure the footprint of the Kingfisher Bay Resort in Australia.
1. The UNEP water policy and strategy aims to implement UNEP's mandates on water as defined by resolutions from the UNEP Governing Council and UN General Assembly.
2. Key mandates include contributing to integrated water resources management and the Millennium Development Goals.
3. The strategy outlines strategic principles, key components of UNEP's freshwater work, and mechanisms for operationalizing and monitoring progress in assessment, management, and cooperation on freshwater issues.
Indicator approach to understanding resilience of Socio-ecological Production...Bioversity International
Presentation by Kaoru Ichikawa from UNU-IAS and the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI).
This was presented during a seminar hosted at Bioversity International on 'The Indicators of Resilience in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)' in January 2014.
Find out more: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/agricultural-ecosystems/landscapes/
GreenATP ucla anderson business school mp totten 06 11Michael P Totten
Slides from seminar. See article for details: http://www.scribd.com/mtotten6756
Summary:
Humanity’s unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billions of people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most of history. Unfortunately, this economic growth has triggered unprecedented se- curity challenges of global and historical magnitude: more absolute poor than any time in human history, the sixth largest extinction spasm of life on earth, climate destabilization with mega-catastrophic consequences, and multi-trillion dollar wars over access to energy. These multiple, inextricably interwoven chal- lenges have low probability of being solved if decision makers maintain the strong propensity to think and act as if life is linear, has no carrying capacity limits, uncertainty is controllable, the future free of surprises, planning is predictable and compartmentalized into silos, and Gaussian distributions are taken as the norm while fat-tail futures are ignored. Although the future holds irreducible uncertainties, it is not fated. The emergence of Internet availability to one-third of humanity and access by most of humanity within a decade has spawned the Web analogue of a ‘Cambrian explosion’ of speciation in knowledge applica- tions. Among the most prodigious have been collaboration innovation networks (COINs) reflecting a diversity of ‘genome’ types, facilitating a myriad of collective intelligence crowd-swarming phenomena (Malone T, Laubacher R, Dellarocas C. The Collective Intelligence Genome. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring; 2010, Vol. 51). COINs are essential tools for accelerating and scaling transformational solutions (positive tipping points) to the wicked problems confronting humanity. Web COINs enable acceleration of multiple-benefit innovations and solutions to these problems that permeate the nested clusters of linked nonlinear complex adaptive systems comprising the global biosphere and socioeconomy [Raford N. How to build a collective intelligence platform to crowdsource almost anything. Available at: http:news.noahraford.com.
Fighting through community participation based on vegetative conservation app...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a study on reducing sedimentation in Wonogiri Reservoir in Indonesia through community participation and vegetative conservation approaches. The study focuses on how five types of capital (social, human, financial, natural, vegetative) and government incentives affect local farmers' conservation decisions. It finds that the five capitals and government incentives significantly influence farmers to participate in watershed conservation activities to prevent sedimentation, especially establishing grass vegetation which also provides economic benefits. The Keduang Sub-Watershed contributes greatly to sediment deposition in the reservoir due to environmental damage from unsustainable agricultural practices.
The document provides background on brownfield sites and contamination in the United States. It discusses the environmental and public health problems posed by brownfield sites, including ecosystem and human health impacts. Common contaminants found at brownfield sites like lead, VOCs, and asbestos are profiled. The document then outlines approaches to remediating brownfield sites, including risk assessment and common techniques like soil vapor extraction. It discusses how remediation decisions must be made on a site-by-site basis. The role of Groundwork Trusts in equitable brownfield redevelopment is covered. Finally, the Groundwork USA Trust Act of 2015, which would provide funding for nonprofit remediation efforts, is introduced.
Claire's presentation on biodiversity loss was the best of all of my students'. She used good analysis and exposition, and cited all sources correctly.
This document summarizes a presentation about the final report from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project on water and wetlands. The presentation covers: an overview of TEEB and the TEEB water and wetlands project; the benefits humans derive from water and wetlands and what we risk losing; measuring ecosystem services to improve management; integrating the values of water and wetlands into decision making; and recommendations to transform our approach. Wetlands provide important ecosystem services supporting water security and other benefits, yet have been degraded, resulting in losses to biodiversity, human well-being and economies. The TEEB report provides evidence on the high economic values of wetland ecosystem services compared to other
The document discusses the economic costs of invasive alien species (IAS) in Europe. It finds that over 10,000 alien species have been reported in Europe, with 10% causing documented ecological impacts and 13% causing documented economic impacts. IAS are known to negatively impact biodiversity, ecosystem services, and economic activities. Some estimates put the environmental and economic costs of IAS in Europe at over 12.5 billion euros per year. IAS have caused declines in native species populations, changes to habitat and ecosystem functioning, and losses to industries like forestry and fisheries. Their introductions and impacts are increasing due to factors like global trade and climate change.
The document discusses ecological footprint, which measures the amount of productive land and sea area required to support a person or population's lifestyle and consumption. It can be used to measure the environmental sustainability of urban or rural areas. The ecological footprint of a city is calculated based on land and sea requirements for housing, transportation, food, goods, services, and other factors. Urbanization tends to increase ecological footprints due to higher resource consumption. The document also provides data on the ecological footprints of various cities and nations from studies conducted in 1997 and 2007.
The presentation discusses mainstreaming the economics of nature and the relationship between nature and the green economy. It provides 3 key points:
1) Mainstreaming the economics of nature involves making nature's values visible across sectors and policies to seek synergies. Protected areas like Natura 2000 offer biodiversity protection as well as economic benefits like tourism and cultural identity.
2) Natura 2000 provides substantial economic benefits estimated at €200-300 billion annually from services like carbon storage, tourism, and recreation. It also supports over 12,000 jobs in Spain.
3) Transitioning to a green economy requires recognizing nature's role in supporting the economy and human well-being over the long-term through ecosystem services.
Nature-based solutions for agricultural water management and food security (W...FAO
This document discusses nature-based solutions (NBS) for agricultural water management and food security. It provides an overview of a webinar series on scaling up adaptation in the agricultural sectors that included a webinar on NBS for agricultural water management. The webinar agenda covered an FAO discussion paper on the topic, presentations on NBS in the UN World Water Development Report and guidance from the Convention on Biological Diversity, and a case study on wasabi cultivation in Japan. The document discusses definitions of NBS, different types of NBS interventions, and concludes that while NBS are not a panacea, they can make an important contribution to addressing upcoming water challenges if certain requirements for success are met, such
Water-Food-Energy: well-being indicators for a better quality of life - Fabio...WWF ITALIA
This document discusses linking the water-food-energy nexus to well-being indicators for a better quality of life. It proposes a framework to analyze the nexus through domains of well-being like health, environment, labor and economic well-being. The nexus is shown to have direct impacts on health and the environment, and quasi-direct impacts on labor and economic well-being. Drivers like education, research, politics and quality of services can impact the nexus and domains of well-being. Features from Italy are provided as examples, like food and environmental pyramids, and data on health, land use, employment and income. The conclusion is that effective nexus management can strongly affect well-being by
The document discusses how rainwater harvesting can support both ecosystem services and human well-being by increasing water availability through collection and storage of rainfall. It notes that rainfall and water are fundamental to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and determine their productivity, while also meeting increasing human demands. The document explores how rainwater harvesting may help address challenges of managing water resources and ecosystems under climate change and development pressures.
The ecological footprint calculates the amount of land and water needed to produce the resources humans consume and absorb the waste generated. It shows that people currently use resources 50% faster than the Earth can regenerate them, consuming over 1.5 planets worth of resources each year. Reducing consumption would decrease the human impact on the environment by making our ecological footprint smaller.
The ecological footprint is a measure that compares human demand on natural resources with Earth's capacity to regenerate those resources. It estimates the amount of biologically productive land and sea area required to support human consumption and waste absorption. Key factors that determine ecological footprint include energy and resource consumption, land and sea use, and levels of biodiversity and carbon emissions. Most recent data from 2010 showed that humanity's ecological footprint exceeded the Earth's capacity to regenerate resources by August 21st that year, the date defined as "Earth Overshoot Day". The carbon footprint specifically measures the amount of greenhouse gases produced through activities like energy use, transportation and industry. Atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have substantially increased since
The average ecological footprint for a New Zealander is 7.7 global hectares per person, up from 5.9 global hectares in 2006. However, the world only has an average of 2.1 global hectares available per person. The ecological footprint measures how much land and water area is required to produce the resources a human population consumes and absorb its wastes, using current technology. Since the 1980s, humanity has been in ecological overshoot, using more than what the Earth can regenerate each year. It now takes 1.5 years for the Earth to regenerate what humanity uses in a single year. Measuring footprints helps assess pressure on the planet and support living within Earth's limits
El documento presenta información sobre la geografía, política, economía, cultura y lugares turísticos de Argentina. Argentina es el segundo país más grande de América del Sur y está compuesto por 23 provincias que operan bajo un gobierno federal central. La economía se basa en la agricultura, incluyendo la soja, el ganado y el vino, e industrias como la automotriz y la petrolera. La cultura argentina refleja influencias europeas y el fútbol, el tango y la carne son símbolos nacionales importantes. Algun
This document discusses how human ecological footprints are affecting the Earth. It defines key terms like renewable resources, nonrenewable resources, and environmental degradation. It explains that as ecological footprints grow, they deplete and degrade more of the Earth's natural capital. The ecological footprint is the amount of land and water needed to supply people with resources and absorb waste. Currently, humans need 1.3 Earths worth of resources, with high-income countries accounting for 88% of the deficit. Developed countries have a disproportionate impact despite making up only 19% of the global population. The tragedy of the commons explains how openly shared resources can be degraded when users focus only on short-term gains.
Ecological footprints measure the amount of productive land and sea area required to support a population's lifestyle or consumption patterns. Activities like energy production, transportation, urbanization, deforestation, agriculture all contribute to ecological footprints. Many countries and lifestyles currently have footprints that exceed their own biological capacity. To reduce footprints and promote sustainability, alternatives to fossil fuels like solar, wind, tidal and bioenergy can be pursued along with more efficient transportation and reduced pollution.
This document provides information about calculating and reducing carbon footprints. It discusses how a carbon footprint measures the amount of carbon dioxide released from activities like transportation, food, and energy use in homes and is primarily from burning fossil fuels. The document then provides many strategies for reducing individual carbon footprints in areas like transportation, housing, food, water usage, goods/services, and energy use habits. The goal is to encourage changes that help address the increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming.
This document provides an overview of a Level 1 Award in Environmental Awareness. Learners will be introduced to principles of environmental awareness, including common terminology, impacts of environmental change, and resource efficiency. They will identify practical ways to reduce environmental impacts. The session includes group exercises to define terms and identify key features of ecological footprints, climate change science, and climate change impacts. It also discusses reducing consumption and reusing resources, as well as identifying recyclable materials.
This document discusses various aspects of sustainable cities including definitions, examples of sustainable initiatives, and case studies. It provides an overview of how cities like Adelaide and areas like Werribee Plains in Australia are implementing sustainable practices such as capturing stormwater runoff, recycled water schemes, and transit oriented development. Examples from other countries like cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands are also examined. The document aims to highlight positive changes being adopted around the world to make cities more environmentally friendly.
1. Carrying capacity is defined as the maximum population size that an environment can sustainably support. For humans, carrying capacity is difficult to determine due to variable resource use, technology, trade, and environmental impacts.
2. Some argue technology can continually expand human carrying capacity. Others argue technology only increases efficiency, not long-term capacity, which may decline due to environmental degradation.
3. Ecological footprint measures the land area required to sustain a population's resource use and waste, providing an estimate of human carrying capacity. Most developed nations have footprints exceeding a sustainable global share per person.
The document describes Rogers' models of sustainable and unsustainable city systems. It then provides examples of sustainable city management strategies in various cities. Some key points:
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- Curitiba's strategies are summarized, including its bus rapid transit system, parks/lakes for flooding control, and slum upgrading paired with recycling programs.
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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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This document summarizes barriers that indigenous communities in Cape York Peninsula, Australia face in participating in Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) markets. It argues that the current environmental management framework delivers suboptimal outcomes and constrains indigenous economic development. Insufficient funding and lack of indigenous involvement have led to increased environmental risks. Multiple layers of environmental legislation greatly restrict indigenous land use without improving outcomes. Weak indigenous land and property rights also limit PES participation. A new approach is needed that recognizes local conditions and history, reconciles development and conservation, and enables indigenous communities to benefit from environmental stewardship of their lands through PES market participation.
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Concept and Pillars of Sustainable developmentDr. Harpal Kaur
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This document summarizes a report on investing in environmental assets to reduce poverty. It finds that achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals will require expanding the environmental assets used by the poor, such as land and water resources. Recent analysis shows that environmental quality can improve at the same time as economic growth, debunking the theory that the environment must decline for growth. Successful poverty reduction strategies need to both expand the asset base of the poor and increase the efficiency of how those assets generate income and well-being. Environmental assets are critically important to the poor's livelihoods and well-being. Investing in things like water, sanitation, and reducing land degradation can have high economic returns and help lift people out of poverty
Analysis of poverty environmental degradation nexus among arable crop farmers...Alexander Decker
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Poster presented at the African Landscapes Dialogue in Addis Ababa, March 6-9, 2017, by Sisay Nune Hailemariam, Teshome Soromessa, and Demel Teketay. #LandscapesDialogue
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This document introduces the concepts of ecological footprint and sustainable development. It explains that ecological footprint measures the amount of productive land and sea area required to support human consumption and waste absorption. Currently, humanity's footprint exceeds what the Earth can regenerate in a year, indicating unsustainable resource use. The document also discusses factors influencing ecological footprint, including population, consumption levels, land use, and resource efficiency. Sustainable development aims to meet present needs without compromising future generations by thinking on longer timescales than typical for businesses and politicians.
This document discusses environmental studies and hazards and safety management. It defines the environment and its segments, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere. Environmental studies are multidisciplinary as they incorporate various fields like chemistry, physics, life sciences, and more. Some key aspects covered are natural resources, ecology, pollution, population, and social issues. The document also discusses the importance of environmental studies, careers in the field, institutions involved, types of natural resources, associated problems, forest resources, and the functions and uses of forests.
The document discusses the concept of ecological debt, which refers to the debt accumulated by industrialized Northern countries from resource extraction, environmental damage, and waste disposal in the Global South. It presents two traditional definitions: 1) the extraction of Southern resources on unequal terms without compensation for local/global impacts, and 2) the disproportionate pollution and use of environmental space by the North without payment or recognition of property rights. It proposes an international campaign for recognition and payment of ecological debt, with communities adopting stances like ceasing trade and credit that increases this debt.
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This document provides an overview of Chapter 11 from an environmental science textbook. The chapter discusses biodiversity loss and threats to biodiversity. It covers topics such as the value of biodiversity, habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive species, climate change, and efforts to preserve biodiversity. Specific threats discussed include deforestation, conversion of land to agriculture, rangeland degradation, urban development, and overexploitation of species.
Exploring Sustainability: Concept and Definition from Practitioner's Perspective4Ventures Legacy (4VL)
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This document provides an outline and overview of a presentation on the intelligibility of science from an Islamic perspective. It begins with defining key terms like science, sustainability, ecocentrism, and khalifah. It then discusses the two faces of science as both natural philosophy and instrumentality. The role of religion, specifically Islam, in balancing science to ensure sustainability is explored through the Islamic concepts of ecocentrism and khalifah. The presentation concludes with a discussion of how an Islamic worldview can provide an alternative solution to address unsustainability issues.
Research is defined as the systematic investigation to establish new facts, solve problems, prove ideas or develop new theories using a scientific method. Basic types of research are basic research, done to increase knowledge, and applied research which uses existing knowledge to solve practical problems. Research can be inductive, moving from specific to general, or deductive, moving from general to specific.
A research proposal outlines the structure and guidelines for a proposed research project. It includes elements like a title, problem statement, hypotheses, limitations, definitions, significance, literature review, research procedures, and timeline. The purpose is to plan and provide structure to increase the validity of the prospective research.
This document summarizes Sony Corporation's approach to innovation management. It discusses Sony's strategy innovation, including maintaining a flexible focus on areas like networked products and emerging markets. It also covers Sony's product innovation, noting it pursues both incremental and radical innovations protected by patents. Additionally, the document outlines Sony's success factors for product innovation, including geographical factors, social networks, and interdisciplinary product development.
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The document provides an outline for a presentation on Oriental and religious perspectives on ecology and the environment. It begins with defining Oriental and religious perspectives, then discusses views from Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Taoism. For each religion, it explores key concepts and how the religions view humanity's relationship with nature and emphasis on environmental protection and harmony. It also discusses views on interconnectedness, karma, and promoting the welfare of all beings.
This document summarizes a presentation about Peter Dear's view of science having two faces: as a natural philosophy concerned with understanding nature, and as instrumentality concerned with practical application and manipulation. It outlines Dear's biography and credentials, then discusses the two faces of science and how scientists are viewed. The history of scientific theories like the aether and theories of heat are examined to show how instrumental success does not guarantee truth, and lessons are learned about the refinement and social acceptance of theories over time. Finally, it addresses the close relationship and cultural impact of the natural philosophy and instrumental aspects of science.
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"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
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Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
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Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
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* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
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In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
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Conditional Statements
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Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
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"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
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Ethical Assessment on Ecological Footprint 2012
1. 1
Based upon Commentary Article entitled “Measuring Sustainability: Why the
Ecological Footprint is Bad Economics and Bad Environmental Science”
by Nathan Fiala, Department of Economics, University of California
SFGS 6123: Ethics and Sustainable Policies for Science, Technology & Innovation
Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Nurani Mohd Noor
Mohd Fadhli Rahmat Fakri (SMB 110010)
Department of Science & Technology
Studies, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya
2. » Introduction: Key Points & Scene-Setting
» Moral Dilemma: Central Issue
» 4 Ethical Test:
Harm Test
Mother/Faith Test
Professional /Organizational Test
Publicity Test
» Preliminary Decision
» Factors to Reconsider
» Recommendations & Conclusion
» References 2
3. » Ecological Footprints:
A simple measure of the
sustainability of a population‟s
consumption by converting all
consumption into the land used
in production, as well as the
theoretical land needed to
sequester (seize/remove) the GHG
produced.
» Sustainability:
The ability of present
generation to meet their needs
without compromising the
ability of future generations to 3
meet theirs.
7. Country A Country B
• Poor • Rich
• Inefficient food • Very efficient food
producer: imported producer: both internal
from B and for export
Resolution / Approach:
Extensive – look out for more land to produce food (used
to calculate relative biocapacity)
Intensive – increase production technology to increase
yield of food, thus not increase total land used.
HIGHLIGHT #1: EF failed to address intensive production 7
growth
8. Historical Data Other major categories of
• 1961-2006 record on EF – built up land, natural
production, yield and land resources, wood, animal
area used for all cereals by production, GHG offsetting
region (not increase much beyond
current levels: inherent
• Total World Production: value of intensive
average rate of 2.17% investment.
yearly, yield rates increasing at
2.06%/year HIGHLIGHT #2: calculating
average land usage for
• Total world land area used for housing a person: misleading
all cereal production: for future land needs
increased on average by 0.09%
each year HIGHLIGHT #3: increased
popularity of confined
• DUE TO: strategy by increasing animal feeding operations 8
production intensively (CAFOs) decreases the land
needed (more sustainable)
9. HIGHLIGHT #4: EF is a static Comparisons of Data on
concept; disability to capture Sustainability:
such issues
HIGHLIGHT #5: very minimal
According to van Kooten &
correlation between different Bulte (2000), EF fails to
measures of degradation and capture 1 of the most
HDI*, EF and carbon. important issues of
sustainability; land
HIGHLIGHT #6: the above will
imposed this issue: more
degradation
developed nations are not
associated with greater land
• HDI: Human Development Index:
degradation: lead to erroneous measuring life
arguments on sustainability of expectancy, literacy, education and
standards of living worldwide which 9
current and future consumption categorized them into 3 different groups:
patterns Developed, Developing and Under-
Developed Countries
10. » ‘Major Glitches’ of the Ecological
Footprints (EF) :
Dominated by energy as over 50% of
EF of most high & middle income
nations is due to the amount of land
necessary to sequester GHG.
Mis-specify current sustainability of a
system by arbitrarily determining
boundaries, esp. problematic for cross-
country comparisons.
Misleading comparisons on the role of
technology in calculating EF.
10
11. » EF is not the BEST TOOL for
measuring sustainability due to its
failure to be inclusive (disability
to capture) of other important
indicators.
IMMORAL: it reflects
unfairness, injustice and
„victimizing‟ those affected
parties
Economy
Social Environment 11
12. » Aims to look for power inequalities on
affected parties and try to answer the
question of DOES EF DO LESS HARM?
Affected Parties:
Countries opting for EF as part of
their national agenda/vision
Policy makers
Farmer / Manufacturer
Animal
Ecology / Environment
12
13. » DOES EF DO LESS HARM?
Affected Parties: Harm / Injustice: Status:
1 Countries opt for EF Unsustainability issues Social Injustice
as national agenda would not be able to be
addressed efficiently:
harmful to the society-at-
large as certain policy was
driving them to more losses
in terms of environmental
degradation and
overutilization of natural
resources
2 Policy Makers Since the conception stage Misleading and
of EF, EF has been widely Inefficient Policy
‘promoted’ / ‘oversell’ as will be
one of the best tool that applied/amended
turn out to be Guideline for 13
Policy makers regarding
sustainability issues
14. » DOES EF DO LESS HARM?
Affected Parties: Harm / Injustice: Status:
3 Farmer / Both: ‘bounded’ with policy Denying their
Manufacturer which in favor of EF rights:
Farmer’s Rights
Manufacturer: their ability in (International
pursuing intensive approach Treaty on Plant
in increasing their Genetic Resources
production are simply for Food and
ignored by EF Agriculture)
4 Animal Habitat loss due to Breaching the
Unaccountable EF - animal ethics as
misleading information: they depend
possibility of entirely on
overexploitation natural
environment and
14
humankind
15. » DOES EF DO LESS HARM?
Affected Parties: Harm / Injustice: Status:
5 Ecology / Land Usage as Possible Unsustainable
Environment Calamity of Future Management of
Generation Natural
Resources could
lead to conflict
among nations
as issues of land
usage and
boundaries
becoming more
and more crucial 15
16. » Utilitarianism – EF should be able to meet the
essential requirement of providing greatest
benefits for the greatest number of people.
According to John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism holds the concepts of
duty, obligation, and right are subordinated to, and determined
by, that which maximizes benefits and minimizes harmful
outcomes.
» Planetary Citizenship (Henderson &
Ikeda, 2004) – ID the earth as a whole and the
whole of humanity, about working towards a
collaborative instead of a competitive
world, with a re-shaped economy driven by
social and environmental need rather than
financial pressures
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17. » Environmental Ethics on human right to
nature:
The World Commission on Environment
and Development claims:
“All human beings have the fundamental
right to an environment adequate for their
health and well-being” (1987b:9)
Which includes basic natural givens:
air, soil, water, functioning ecosystems, hydrologic
cycles and so on.
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18. » By assuming the role of the Counter Expert
(referring to Religious / Beliefs)
» ISLAM on Sustainable Natural Resource
Management:
Hima (Management zones established for sustainable
natural resource use)
Harim (inviolable sanctuaries used for protecting water
resources)
Ihya Al-Mawat (practice of restoring neglected land)
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19. Islam & Environment
• Productive Use of the Environment
• “Whosoever plants a tree, he will be rewarded with as much
reward as is relevant to its yields” (Bukhari).
• The Concept of Vice-Regency
• The human being, in the Islamic perspective is considered a
vicegerent of the environment and this vice regency carries
heavy responsibilities to the future.
• "Behold, your Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vice-regents on earth." (Qur’an, 2:30)
• Concept of Amanah (Trust) as Khalifah (Vicegerent)
• Main responsibility of man after he has agreed to shoulder the
task as khalifah. Thus, his amanah is to build up a civilisation for
the good of all humanity and his environment willed by the God.
• “Indeed, we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the
mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to]
bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant” (Al-Ahzab: 72)
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20. Islam & Environment
• Living in Harmony with Nature
• The ultimate objective of life for a Muslim is salvation
which is achieved through peace and harmony.
• "Salam, the Arabic root of the word "Islam," means
"peace and harmony". Therefore, Islamic
theologians argue that an "Islamic way of life entails
living in peace and harmony" at individual and
social as well as ecological levels (Hadith).
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21. » CHRISTIAN*
10 commandments of Environmental Ethic
1) Nothing that exists in this world is outside the divine
plan of creation and redemption
2) 2 fundamental: we should not reduce nature to a
mere instrument to be manipulated and exploited
AND we shouldn‟t make nature an absolute value
3) Environmental issues entails the whole planet, thus
our responsibility toward ecology extends to future
generations (sustainability)
4) We need to confirm both primacy of ethics and the
rights of man over technology; in turn we should treat
other created beings with respect
5) Nature must not be regarded as a reality that is
divine itself; it is not illicit to modify ecosystem, so
long as this is done within the context of a respect for
its order and beauty, and taking into consideration 21
the utility of every creature.
22. » CHRISTIAN*
10 commandments of Environmental Ethic
6) Ecological questions highlight the need to achieve a
greater harmony both bet. measures designed to
foment economic dev. & those directed to preserving
ecology; vice versa.
7) We should actively work for the integral dev. of the
poorest regions: goods should be shared in a just and
charitable manner: The Principle of the Universal
Destiny of Goods
8) Collaboration (worldwide agreements) backed up by
international law, necessary to protect environment;
guided by demands of the common good.
9) Lifestyles should be oriented according to the
Principles of Sobriety, Temperance and Self-
Descipline; reforming our consumer mentality
10) A spiritual response must be highlighted, inspired as 22
such that creation is a gift from God that should be
used responsibly and with loving care.
23. Christianity &
Environment
Principle of Environmental Stewardship
• God Expects Humans to be His Stewards with Nature
Revelation 11:18. The nations were angry and your wrath has
come. The time has come for rewarding your servants the
prophets and your saints and those who reverence your
name, both small and great - and for destroying those who
destroy the earth.
• Scripture clearly states that God created, blessed, protected
and made a covenant with the different species. As stewards
of His creation, Christian believers are called to do no less. It is
their scriptural and moral duty to protect species and their
habitat.
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24. » Buddhism
» Buddhist ethics are grounded in the truth and
experience of the Law of Dependent Co-Arising.
» Sila, or guidelines for moral action, are central to
Buddhist practice in all traditions.
» The Three Pure Precepts are vows to refrain from
actions that ignore interdependence, to make an effort
to act out of understanding of interrelationship, and to
serve all beings in the interdepending web.
» The five (Theravada) prescriptive precepts to not
kill, not lie, not steal, not abuse sexuality or intoxicants
spring from a fundamental recognition of relationship.
One aims to act as respectfully and inclusively as 24
possible toward plant, animal, and human companions.
25. » It is a wise-suggestion that ‘partnership‟ with
or being inclusive to what faiths has taught us
ever since, could help us to go a long way
towards meeting the goals of global
biodiversity conservation and even poverty
alleviation.
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26. » The Earth Charter Initiative
“…a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just,
sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century….a product of a
decade-long, worldwide, cross cultural dialogue on common goals and shared
values. The Earth Charter project began as a United Nations initiative, but it
was carried forward and completed by a global civil society initiative. The Earth
Charter was finalized and then launched as a people’s charter in 2000 by the
Earth Charter Commission, an independent international entity”
Principles #1: Respect & Care for the Community of Life
1. Respect Earth and life in all its diversity.
a. Recognize that all beings are interdependent and every form of
life has value regardless of its worth to human beings.
2. Secure Earth's bounty and beauty for present and future
generations.
a. Recognize that the freedom of action of each generation is
qualified by the needs of future generations.
b. Transmit to future generations values, traditions, and institutions
that support the long-term flourishing of Earth's human and
ecological communities.
Principles #2: Ecological Integrity
Protect and restore the integrity of Earth's ecological systems, with
special concern for biological diversity and the natural processes that
sustain life. 26
e. Manage the use of renewable resources such as water, soil, forest products, and marine
life in ways that do not exceed rates of regeneration and that protect the health of
ecosystems.
f. Manage the extraction and use of non-renewable resources such as minerals and fossil
fuels in ways that minimize depletion and cause no serious environmental damage.
27. » Scientists' Professional Code of Ethics
Among other states that:
Act with skill and care in all scientific work. Maintain up to date skills
and assist their development in others.
Take steps to prevent corrupt practices and professional misconduct.
Declare conflicts of interest.
Be alert to the ways research derives from and affects the work of
other people, and respect the rights and reputations of others.
Ensure that their work is lawful and justified.
Minimize and justify any adverse effect your work may have on
people, animals and the natural environment.
Seek to discuss the issues that science raises for society. Listen to the
aspirations and concerns of others.
Do not knowingly mislead, or allow others to be misled, about
scientific matters. Present and review scientific evidence, theory or
interpretation honestly and accurately.
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28. » Universal Declaration of Human Rights
» Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right
includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to
seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers.
» Article 22
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is
entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-
operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each
State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his
dignity and the free development of his personality.
» Article 27
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and
its benefits.
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Reference: http://www.humanrightsaction.org/hrun/english.html
29. » Accountability: refers to the
notion that people and
organizations should be held
responsible for the plans, behaviors
and foreseeable results of
commitments that they willingly
pursue.
E.g: difficulty in accessing relevant
information (i.e. lack of transparency)
often hinders accountability and
lead to misuse/confusion.
» Social Justice: fairness in the
distribution of the benefits and
burdens of social cooperation. 29
30. » Justice – ‘subjects’ (in this case all
affected parties) should be treated
according to what they entitled.
» Organized skepticism – the way our
experts/scientists work, should be made
applicable for future usage, thus it should
be open to be questioned, and let the
truth should finally rest based upon
comparison with observed fact.
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31. » Is it SAFE to practice EF as Sustainability Issues
Measurement tool???
» EF should not be used for further usage as
a measurement tool of sustainability
(unless further improvement on the
mechanism have been made) due to its
disability (injustice and immoral nature).
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32. » High possibility of misleading results of EF
Those with positive EF results could in fact have a very high land degradation;
» High rates of possible land degradation
(undetected via EF)
Faster rate of land usage, more harmful ways
» EF has its uses but it should be opened for
debate on the using of EF
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33. » Improving / strengthening the technical knowledge and expertise
needed to be able to conduct a rigorous, consistent, reliable and
comparable EF study through lectures, providing opportunities for
relaying information and holding discussions/debates on EF
» Resolving the so-called twin issues of DATA COMPLEXITY and
TRANSPARENCY of the methodology in conducting EF: consider
training and proper medium for dissemination of information on EF to
the public
» Resolving issues of inconsistencies in the methodologies and results
calculated: thus they should working more towards
standardization, transparency and credibility by being more inclusive
towards other important indicators
» Alignment of EF accounting with the UN-SEEA: help us in
standardizing the accounting processes and improve the accuracy of
allocation; in turn make them available for further use in Input-
Output Analysis (IOA)
» Complementary indicators to monitor progress related to other
environmental issues undetected by EF: one suggestion is through 4
basket indicators on the EU‟s Resource Strategy –
EF, Environmentally-Weighted Material Consumption (EMC), Human
Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) and Land & 33
Ecosystem Accounts (LEAC)
34. » United Nations Indicator
Developed extensive sustainability measurement
tools in relation to SD + System of Integrated
Environmental and Economic Accounting (UN-SEEA)
system for organizing statistical data for the derivation of
coherent indicators and descriptive statistics to monitor the
interactions between the economy and the environment
and the state of the environment to better inform decision-
making.
Subsystems of the SEEA framework elaborate on specific
resources or
sectors, including: Energy, Water, Fisheries, Land and
Ecosystems, and Agriculture.
Try to build bridges between the accounting community and
the community of experts in each specific subject area.
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35. » Benchmarks
Point of reference for a measurement to
assess trends and measure progress. E.g:
2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership
» Indexes
An aggregate sustainability indicator
that combines multiple sources of data.
E.g: Consultative Group on Sustainable
Development Indices
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36. » Metrics
Monitorial Reference for the effect of human
on biogeochemical cycles that are critical to
life: water cycle, carbon cycle, etc.
» Auditing
Sustainability auditing and reporting in evaluating entity
using various performance indicators: ISO
14000, Natural Step, Triple Bottom Line
Accounting, Input-Output Analysis (IOA) : widely
expanded application of EF particularly in the area of
policy formulation related to the distribution of human
appropriation to biocapacity.
» Accounting
Attempt to include environmental costs rather than
treating them as externalities: Green 36
Accounting, Sustainable Value, Sustainability
Economics
37. » After conducting all 4 ethical
frameworks/assessment, the mechanism of EF as a tool
of sustainability measurement is IMMORAL and thus, it
should not be ‘oversell’ / disseminated to the
public, UNLESS:
EF should be revised intensive-and-extensively by experts
of such fields by being more open and taking accounts
all criticism on EF for further improvement of the
system.
Other options: considering other measurement tools
which suits our own conditions (because one size does
not fit all) and even better, combining them as to ensure
the nature of inclusivity of such tools can be achieved.
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39. Online Article:
» Environmental Ethics by Holmes Rolston, III (Blackwell Publishing, 2003)
» Ecological Citizenship and Sustainable Consumption: Examining Local Organic
Food Networks by Gill Seyfang (Journal of Rural Studies, Elsevier Ltd, 2006)
» An Analysis of the Policy and Educational Applications of the Ecological Footprint
by Dr. John Barrett et.al (SEI, 2004)
» On the Ethics of CSR – Considering the Paradigm of Industrial Metabolism by Jouni
Korhonen (Journal of Business Ethics, Kluwer Academic Publishers: 2003)
» The Ecological Footprint: A Non-Monetary Metric of Human Consumption Applied
to North America by Maged Senbel et.al (Global Environmental Change: Elsevier
Science: 2003)
» London‟s Ecological Footprint: A Review by Brook Lyndhurst (Greater London
Authority: 2003)
» A Review of the Ecological Footprint Indicator – Perceptions and Methods by
Thomas Wiedmann & John Barrett (Sustainability Journal: 2010)
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40. Online Article / Forum / Information on Mother / Faith Test derived from:
» Buddhist contribution to environmental protection – Judge Weeramantry From
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/6210
» Islam, the environment and the human future - Judge Weeramantry from
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/6426
» Islam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
» Confucian Ethics and the Environment by Li Tianchen* from The Culture Mandala, 6 no. 1. 2003. from
http://asrudiancenter.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/confucian-ethics-and-the-environment/
» Buddhism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism, http://www.buddhanet.net/e-
learning/5minbud.htm
» Acting with Compassion - Stephanie Kaza
ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT PRINCIPLES OF BUDDHISM – from
http://www.dhushara.com/book/renewal/voices2/budfem.htm
» Buddhism & Environmental Protection By Ven. Sheng-yen from
http://greentheme.blogspot.com/2007/08/buddhism-environmental-protection.html
» Christian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian
» A Christian View of the Environment by Ray Bohl from http://www.northave.org/MGManual/Environ/Envir1.htm
» The Environment and the Dao by David Wright from http://www.sacu.org/daoenv.html
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