Ecological Footprints and Biocapacity: Essential Elements in Sustainability Assessment

Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 143-157

  Rees, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eco footprinting and hidden global trade; Eco Footprints of Nations; Ecological footprint analysis (EFA); Ecological footprints and biocapacity; EFA ecological overshoot and doom; EFA and human ecological reality; EFA and sustainability policy; Population eco footprints; Sustainability debate in biophysical reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889317625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470022442.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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