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标题：Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018
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作者：David Lin ; Laurel Hanscom ; Adeline Murthy 等
期刊名称：Resources
电子版ISSN：2079-9276
出版年度：2018
卷号：7
期号：3
页码：58-79
DOI：10.3390/resources7030058
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Ecological Footprint accounting quantifies the supply and demand of Earth’s biocapacity. The National Footprint Accounts (NFA) are the most widely used Ecological Footprint (EF) dataset, and provide results for most countries and the world from 1961 to 2014, based primarily on publicly available UN datasets. Here, we review the evolution of the NFA, describe and quantify the effects of improvements that have been implemented into the accounts since the 2012 edition, and review the latest global trends. Comparing results over six editions of NFAs, we find that time-series trends in world results remain stable, and that the world Ecological Footprint for the latest common year (2008) has increased six percent after four major accounting improvements and more than thirty minor improvements. The latest results from the NFA 2018 Edition for the year 2014 indicate that humanity’s Ecological Footprint is 1.7 Earths, and that global ecological overshoot continues to grow. While improved management practices and increased agricultural yields have assisted in a steady increase of Earth’s biocapacity since 1961, humanity’s Ecological Footprint continues to increase at a faster pace than global biocapacity, particularly in Asia, where the total and per capita Ecological Footprint are increasing faster than all other regions.
关键词：Ecological Footprint; Ecological Footprint accounting; National Footprint Accounts; biocapacity; sustainability Ecological Footprint ; Ecological Footprint accounting ; National Footprint Accounts ; biocapacity ; sustainability