Does the shoe fit? Real versus imagined ecological footprints

The global overshoot indicated by Ecological Footprint calculations consists entirely of an unreliable reframing of human carbon emissions and none of the five other land-use categories—cropland, grazing land, built-up land, fishing grounds, and forests. The Ecological Footprint is therefore “so mis...

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Published in:PLoS biology 2013-11, Vol.11 (11), p.e1001700-e1001700
Main Authors: Blomqvist, Linus, Brook, Barry W, Ellis, Erle C, Kareiva, Peter M, Nordhaus, Ted, Shellenberger, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Carbon
Carbon Footprint
Confidence intervals
Conservation of Energy Resources - legislation & jurisprudence
Earth
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
Ecological footprint
Ecosystems
Environmental Policy
Forests
Guidelines as Topic
Human beings
Humans
Influence on nature
International trade
Self sufficiency
Sustainability
United Nations
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Summary:The global overshoot indicated by Ecological Footprint calculations consists entirely of an unreliable reframing of human carbon emissions and none of the five other land-use categories—cropland, grazing land, built-up land, fishing grounds, and forests. The Ecological Footprint is therefore “so misleading as to preclude its use in any serious science or policy context,” argue Blomqvist et al. in this perspective.
ISSN:1545-7885
1544-9173
1545-7885
DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001700