THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (EF) AS THE INDICATOR OF SOCIETIES SUSTAINABILITY

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SARAEI M.H.; ZAREEI FARSHAD A.A.H.

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Journal: Journal of Environmental Studies Year:2009 | Volume:35 | Issue:50 Page(s): 15-26

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THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (EF) AS THE INDICATOR OF SOCIETIES SUSTAINABILITY

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SARAEI M.H. | ZAREEI FARSHAD A.A.H. | Issue Writer Certificate

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The SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT is an important concern of the recent century. The concept of "sustainable development" has been an ongoing search for indicators that could support decision-making in this context (UN.CSD, 1996). One can identify three types of approaches, although many intermediate ones exist: 1) Developing an aggregated indicator of SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; examples of this approach are the ISEW and GPI indicators and the Wealth of Nations approach of the World Bank (World Bank, 1996). 2) Developing a comprehensive assessment framework and systematically deriving indicators from these frameworks; an example of this approach is the report to the Balaton Group (Meadows, 1998).3) Developing a set of SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT indicators based on consensus without a comprehensive, strictly used assessment framework; examples are the SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT indicator work of UN.CSD (UN.CSD, 1996) and the Sustainable Seattle project Scientist has exposure active of quantitative and qualitative models with measure city and socials SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.The concept of SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT globally studied. One of the important quantitative models is ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT model.In the last few years, the ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (EF) has been frequently mentioned as a potential indicator for the environmental consequences of production and consumption patterns (Rees, 1992; Wackernagel and Rees, 1996). Much attention have been paid to the EF originally came from environmental and educational organisations (such as The Earth Council and "De Kleine Aarde" in the Netherlands). Currently, this has become a great concern of scientists and politicians.Various researches have studied the method as originally proposed (van den Bergh and Verbruggen 1999; Moffatt 2000 ;).The objective of these works has largely focused on the oversimplification in ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTs of the complex task of measuring sustainability of consumption, leading to comparisons among populations becoming meaningless, or the result for a single population being significantly underestimated. In addition, the aggregated form of the final ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT makes it difficult to understand the specific reasons for the unsustainability of the consumption of a given population, and to formulate appropriate policy responses (Moffatt 2000;). While generally acknowledged as a valuable educational tool, the original ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT is seen as a regional policy and planning tool for ecologically SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. (Bicknell et al. 1998, Lenzen and Murray 2001). Development of and debate about the method are continuing. Several organizations have already calculated EF at different scale levels, ranging from individual and urban to the global scale (e.g. Wackernagel et al., 1997; Bicknell et al., 1998; Wackernagel et al., 1999).ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTs calculated according to this original method became important educational tools in highlighting the unsustainability of global consumption (Costanza 2000). It was also proposed that ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTs could be used for policy design and planning (Wackemagel et al. 1997)….

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SARAEI, M.H., & ZAREEI FARSHAD, A.A.H.. (2009). THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (EF) AS THE INDICATOR OF SOCIETIES SUSTAINABILITY. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, 35(50), 15-26. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/3096/en

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SARAEI M.H., ZAREEI FARSHAD A.A.H.. THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (EF) AS THE INDICATOR OF SOCIETIES SUSTAINABILITY. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES[Internet]. 2009;35(50):15-26. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/3096/en

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M.H. SARAEI, and A.A.H. ZAREEI FARSHAD, “THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (EF) AS THE INDICATOR OF SOCIETIES SUSTAINABILITY,” JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, vol. 35, no. 50, pp. 15–26, 2009, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/3096/en

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