Tracking supply and demand of biocapacity through ecological footprint accounting

Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 179-199

  Lin, David ^a   Galli, Alessandro ^b   Borucke, Michael ^a   Lazarus, Elias ^a   Grunewald, Nicole ^b   Martindill, Jon ^a   Zimmerman, David ^a   Mancini, Serena ^b,c,d   Iha, Katsunori ^a   Wackernagel, Mathis ^a  

^a Global Footprint Network   (United States)

^b Global Footprint Network   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biocapacity; Ecological footprint; Ecosystem accounting; Input output analysis; Planetary limits; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008356078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118933916.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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