Ecological Footprint and Its Components: Towards a Sustainable World
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2861
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental degradation has drawn the attention of the academic community, policy-makers, and the general public, especially since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in 1972. Although climate change and global warming have been among the threatening examples of the effect of human activities on the environment, water, air, and soil pollution also comprise problems of environmental concern.
To effectively identify environmental problems, both appropriate indicators and robust tools should be used. Until the last decade, generally, carbon emissions, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides have been used by academicians to address human beings' pressures on the environment. However, the ecological footprint, which was proposed by Rees (1992) and developed by Wachernagel and Rees (1996) is a more comprehensive indicator of global environmental pressures than these emissions since it also considers the pressures due to food consumption, housing, transportation, consumer goods, and services (Antal et al. 2020).
In this Special Issue, I invite papers that mainly focus on the dynamics of ecological footprint and also its components, such as the co-movement of the footprint with various variables, using recently introduced advanced techniques. In this sense, in this Special Issue, the possible topics of interest include but are not limited to: the Environmental Kuznets Curve, Pollution Haven Hypothesis, the persistence of shocks on the indicators, and convergence of the environmental indicators, etc. Contributions may include empirical research, case studies, and comparative and theoretical studies.
Thank you very much for your contributions.
Antal, M., Plank, B., Mokos, J., Wiedenhofer, D. Is working less really good for the environment? A systematic review of the empirical evidence for resource use, greenhouse gas emissions and the ecological footprint. Environ. Res. Lett. 2020, 16, 013002.
Rees, W.E. Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out. In The Earthscan Reader in Rural–Urban Linkages, 1st ed.; Routledge: London, England, 2018; pp. 285–297.
Wackernagel, M., Rees, W. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. New Society Publishers: Philadelphia PA, USA, 1998; ISBN: 0-86571-312-X.
Prof. Dr. Veli Yilanci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental sustainability
- green economy
- sustainable development
- environmental degradation and ecological footprint
- ecological balance
- convergence of ecological indicators
