Mathis Wackernagel, Bert Beyers

Ecological Footprint (eBook, ePUB)

Managing Our Biocapacity Budget
Übersetzer: Rout, Katharina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The only metric that tracks how much nature we have - and how much nature we use

This book is a loud wake-up call to everyone.
- CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, former Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

Looking for a science-based, practical tool to navigate your future on Earth? Here it is.
- PROF. JOHAN ROCKSTRÖM, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

OUR ECONOMY is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a limited time, followed by a crash.

Avoiding ecological bankruptcy requires rigorous resource accounting - a challenging task, but doable with the right tools.

Ecological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew - its biocapacity - and distils this into one number: how many Earths we use.

Ecological Footprint provides a complete introduction, covering:

• Footprint and biocapacity accounting
• Data and key findings for countries
• Worldwide examples including businesses, cities, and countries
• Strategies for creating regenerative economies.

Whether you're a student, business leader, future-oriented city planner, economist, or have an abiding interest in humanity's future, Footprint and biocapacity are key parameters to be reckoned with, and Ecological Footprint is your essential guide.

A momentous development, and one that all citizens of the planet should know about.
- RICHARD HEINBERG, author, The End of Growth and Peak Everything

Reveals both our alarming self-inflicted situation and the way forward.
- THOMAS E. LOVEJOY, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Institute for a Sustainable Earth, George Mason University

Mathis Wackernagel is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and president of Global Footprint Network, based in Oakland, California. www.footprintnetwork.org.

Bert Beyers is a senior editor at one of Germany's largest radio stations, located in Hamburg.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771423007
• Artikelnr.: 56833706

Autorenporträt

Mathis Wackernagel, born in Basel, Switzerland, is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and president of Global Footprint Network, which was named one of the World's 100 Top NGOs by The Global Journal. Wackernagel has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations, and international NGOs on six continents, and has lectured at more than a hundred universities. He previously served as the director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in California and ran the Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad at Anáhuac University in Mexico. Wackernagel has authored or contributed to over one hundred peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles and reports, and various books on sustainability including the bestselling Our Ecological Footprint. With dozens of international awards and accolades for his pioneering work, he has been identified as a leader who is driving the world's most significant problems to zero. He lives in Oakland, CA. www.footprintnetwork.org

Bert Beyers, born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, is a senior editor at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg. For several decades, questions of ecology and future have been his professional passion. He has published widely including a book with Franz Josef Radermacher on survival in the 21st century entitled Welt mit Zukunft: Die ökozoziale Perspektive. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude Footprint
Why? (Introduction) Part I: Footprint
The Tool 1. Area as Currency
How Much Biocapacity Does a Person Need? 2. Ecological Hinterland
How Much Biocapacity Does a City Need? 3. Croplands, Forests, and Oceans
How Much Biocapacity Do We Have? 4. One Planet
Ecological Limits and Then What? 5. Footprint as Compass
How Much Biocapacity Do We Need for a Good Life? Part II: Footprint
Challenges Defining the 21st Century 6. End Overshoot!
Communication Is Key 7. Winners and Losers
Strategies for Countries to Consider 8. Footprint Scenarios
Ways out of Global Overshoot Part III: Footprint
Case Studies 9. Footprint Calculations
Individuals, Cities, Countries, Products, and Companies 10. Footprint in Architecture and City Planning
BedZED, Masdar City, and Peter Seidel 11. China
A New Model of Development? 12. Africa
Protecting One's Resources 13. Footprint
A Conversation Acknowledgments: Who is Powering All This? Glossary Notes Index About the Authors About New Society Publishers