scholarly journals Ecological Footprint and Carbon Footprint of Organic and Conventional Agrofoods Production, Processing and Services

10.5772/30336 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iuliana Vintila
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Ecological Footprint

scholarly journals Taiwan’s ecological footprint and overshoot day

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yung-Jaan Lee ◽  
Lei Chai ◽  
Po-Shu Wu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Conversion Rates ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Population

AbstractThis study examines Taiwan’s ecological footprint (EF) and its Overshoot Day from 2000 to 2018. The latest EF calculation method is used to determine the conversion rates and equivalent factors of bioproductive lands in each year to establish a database of Taiwan’s EF in that period. The results reveal that Taiwan’s EF was 7.69 gha/person in 2000, dropping steadily to 6.46 gha/person in 2018. Taiwan’s carbon footprint accounted for about 61% of Taiwan’s total EF, slightly higher than the world average (60%). The carbon footprint as a proportion of the total EF has been increasing annually. This study adopts social communication tools, such as the overshoot day and the earth clock, to promote sustainable development goals and climate change policy initiatives. Global Footprint Network (GFN) updates the overshoot day of each country in its database yearly, based on each country’s EF and biocapacity. Since Taiwan is not included in GFN, this study adopts the same method and finds out that Taiwan's Overshoot Day in 2018 was March 14th, meaning that on March 14th, 2018, Taiwan exhausted all of the biological resources that its bioproductive lands can regenerate in the year. If the global population lived like Taiwanese, four Earths would be required to provide the resources used. This result not only reflects the consumption of natural resources in Taiwan, but also indicates that Taiwan should focus on sustainable development and reduce that consumption.

scholarly journals The Ecological Footprint of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines: Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7425
Author(s):  
Peter Kurzweil ◽  
Alfred Müller ◽  
Steffen Wahler
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Vaccine Dose ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Cooling Technology ◽  
Chain Organization ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

Compared to the medical, economic and social implications of COVID-19 vaccinations, little attention has been paid to the ecological balance to date. This study is an attempt to estimate the environmental impact of two mRNA vaccines in terms of CO2 equivalents with respect to their different freezing strategies and supply chain organization. Although it is impossible to accurately calculate the actual environmental impact of the new biochemical synthesis technology, it becomes apparent that transport accounts for up to 99% of the total carbon footprint. The emissions for air freight, road transportation and last-mile delivery are nearly as 19 times the emissions generated from ultra-deep freeze technologies, the production of dry ice, glass and medical polymers for packaging. The carbon footprint of a single mRNA vaccine dose injected into a patient is about 0.01 to 0.2 kg CO2 equivalents, depending on the cooling technology and the logistic routes to the vaccination sites in Germany.

scholarly journals Environmental Footprint of Domestic Dogs and Cats

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Herrera-Camacho ◽  
Eduardo Baltierra-Trejo ◽  
Paul Adolfo Taboada-González ◽  
Luisa Fernanda Gonzalez ◽  
Liliana Marquez-Benavides
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Life Cycle Analysis ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Domestic Cat ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
One Year

Mexico´s inhabitants have approximately 7 million dogs and cats as pets, of which there is no accurate information about their environmental impacts as a result of their feeding and comfort requirements. The objective of this study is to compare the environmental footprint between a dog and a cat in a family environment. For this purpose, a life cycle analysis was performed including, among other factors, its feeding and waste management in one year of life. Different environmental indicators including the carbon footprint were considered. It was found that the equivalent CO2 emission of a dog is twice that estimated for a domestic cat and that the main contribution is due to the food production. The ecological footprint that is generated when satisfying the requirements for pet´s well-being impacts in the environment contributes primarily to the carbon footprint.

scholarly journals Carbon Footprint and Built-up Land Footprint: Taipei Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 03052
Author(s):  
Yung-Jaan Lee
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Water Footprint ◽  
Statistical Correlation ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
Daily Water

The purpose of this study is to analyze whether the ecological footprint (EF) of Taipei residents differs between districts. In this study, EFs of residents of 12 districts in Taipei were calculated from the bottom-up approach using 445 questionnaires. The EF consists of six categories, and this study focuses only on the carbon footprint and the footprint of the built-up lands. The personal carbon footprint for Taipei residents is 0.0458 gha. The top five districts with the highest personal daily water footprint are Nangang, Wanhua, Neihu, Beitou and Xinyi. The top five districts with the highest daily carbon footprint are Xinyi, Wanhua, Beitou, Nangang and Shilin. The five districts with the highest daily EF are Xinyi, Wanhua, Beitou, Shilin and Nangang. The socioeconomic background of the respondents does not relate to the size of the water footprint and ecological footprint. Moreover, there is no statistical correlation between the individual’s daily water footprint and daily EF. The socio-economic background of the respondents does not exhibit correlations with the size of the EFs.

scholarly journals A Regression Analysis of the Carbon Footprint of Megacities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1379
Author(s):  
John A. Paravantis ◽  
Panagiotis D. Tasios ◽  
Vasileios Dourmas ◽  
Georgios Andreakos ◽  
Konstantinos Velaoras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Low Income Country ◽  
Per Capita

Urbanization and climate change are two major issues that humanity faces in the 21st century. Megacities are large urban agglomerations with more than 10 million inhabitants that emerged in the 20th century. The world’s top 100 economies include many North and South American megacities, such as New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires; European cities such as London and Paris; and Asian cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Beijing and Mumbai. This paper addresses a dearth of megacity energy metabolism models in the literature. Cross-sectional data for 36 global megacities were collected from many literature and Internet sources. Variables included megacity name, country and region; population; area; population density; (per capita) GDP; income inequality measures; (per capita) energy consumption; household electricity prices; (per capita) carbon and ecological footprint; degree days; average urban heat island intensity; and temperature and precipitation. A descriptive comparison of the characteristics of megacities was followed by ordinary least squares with heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors that were used to estimate four alternative multiple regression models. The per-capita carbon footprint of megacities was positively associated with the megacity GDP per capita, and the megacity ecological footprint; and negatively associated with country income inequality, a low-income country dummy, the country household electricity price, and the megacity annual precipitation. Targeted policies are needed, but more policy autonomy should be left to megacities. Collecting longitudinal data for megacities is very challenging but should be a next step to overcome misspecification and bias issues that plague cross-sectional approaches.

scholarly journals Trend of Ecological Footprint in Mongolia and Policy Directions for the Sustainable Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enkhjargal Volodya ◽  
Min Ju Yeo ◽  
Yong Pyo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Grazing Land ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2

Urbanization and industrialization processes in Mongolia have been significant and rapid for the last half-century. During this period, changes in political and economic systems, growth in the population, and the occasional harsh climate conditions were subject to fluctuations in the natural resource usage. The total Ecological Footprint (EF) in Mongolia has increased from 6.8 million global hectares (gha) in 1961 to 14.6 million gha in 2012. However, Biocapacity (BC) has decreased from 50.6 million gha in 1961 to 39.0 million gha in 2012. The study shows that grazing land Footprint and carbon uptake land Footprint are the two major contributors of the recent intensified use of biological resources. To ensure stable economic development and sustainable use of natural resources, environmental planning is required to consider both the population’s pressure on the environment and the ecosystem’s regeneration capacity, simultaneously. We have proposed a few possible strategies for sustainable utilization of grazing land Footprint and carbon Footprint. For grazing land Footprint, efficient management of both herding practice and number of animals should be considered. In case of carbon Footprint, it is estimated that with the improved combustion efficiencies of coal-based power plants and the maximum use of renewable energy, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Mongolia can be reduced up to 30% compared to the base line business as usual case in 2030.

Climate change and rice production in India: role of ecological and carbon footprint

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pushp Kumar ◽  
Naresh Chandra Sahu ◽  
Mohd Arshad Ansari ◽  
Siddharth Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Rice Crop ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe paper investigates the effects of climate change along with ecological and carbon footprint on rice crop production in India during 1982–2016.Design/methodology/approachThe autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL), canonical cointegration regression (CCR) and fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS) models are used in the paper.FindingsA long-run relationship is found between climate change and rice production in India. Results report that ecological footprint and carbon footprint spur long-term rice production. While rainfall boosts rice crop productivity in the short term, it has a negative long-term impact. Further, the findings of ARDL models are validated by other cointegration models, i.e., the FMOLS and CCR models.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides insights into the role of ecological footprint and carbon footprint along with climate variables in relation to rice production.Originality/valueIn the literature, the effects of ecological and carbon footprint on rice production are missing. Therefore, this is the first study to empirically examine the impact of climate change along with ecological footprint and carbon footprint on rice production in India.

Carbon Footprint Accounting Practices in Taiwan

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 1529-1540
Author(s):  
Yung Jaan Lee ◽  
Shih Chien Lin
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Future Research ◽  
County Level ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Direct Measures

By using carbon dioxide emissions in Taiwan, this study attempts to account for total carbon dioxide emissions and per capita emissions at city and county level, based on the household consumption structure in each region. Carbon dioxide emissions are translated into carbon footprint by using the ecological footprint (EF) method, followed by calculation of total and per capita carbon footprint for each city and county. Analysis results indicate that Taiwan's total carbon dioxide emissions in 2011 were 264.66 million tons, of which New Taipei City, Taipei City and Kaohsiung City were the highest. However, according to the EF framework, the per capita carbon footprint for Taiwan was 5.94 global hectares (gha) in 2011. The highest three counties and cities were Taipei City, Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County. Future research should incorporate the use of direct measures of carbon dioxide emissions in counties and cities, which would produce a more realistic outcome. Moreover, the feasibility of using the EF method to translate carbon dioxide emissions into carbon footprint should also be examined.

scholarly journals ANALISIS JEJAK EKOLOGIS MELALUI STUDI JEJAK KARBON PADA TRANSPORTASI DARAT

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Farha Dapas
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Planning Tool ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Footprint Analysis ◽  
Productive Land ◽  
Ecological Footprint Analysis

ANALISIS JEJAK EKOLOGIS MELALUI STUDI JEJAK KARBON PADA TRANSPORTASI DARATABSTRAK Analisis jejak ekologis adalah salah satu alat perencanaan dalam pembangunan berkelanjutan. Konsep ini tidak hanya untuk menilai aktivitas manusia dalam kaitannya dengan keberlanjutan tetapi juga efektif untuk meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat dan para pembuat keputusan untuk mengelola sumber daya alam secara lebih baik dan komprehensif. Analisis Jejak ekologis adalah alat untuk mengukur konsumsi sumberdaya alam dan batasan asimilasi limbah yang dihasilkan oleh populasi manusia atau ekonomi dikaitkan dengan daya dukung lahan. Salah satu bagian dalam analisis jejak ekologis adalah studi jejak karbon, dengan menghitung emisi karbon dioksida melalui pembakaran bahan bakar fosil pada kendaraan bermotor. Hasilnya dapat memberi gambaran mengenai dampak aktivitas manusia terhadap lingkungan dalam satuan tertentu (lahan bioproduktif) dan dapat dihubungkan dengan daya dukung bumi (biokapasitas). Kata kunci : jejak ekologis, jejak karbon, biokapasitas ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS BY CARBON FOOTPRINT STUDY ON LAND TRANSPORTATION ABSTRACT Ecological Footprint analysis is one of the planning tool or indicator in sustainable development. This concept is not only to assess human activity in regard with sustainability but also effectively to raise community awareness and the decision maker to manage the resources better and comprehensive. Ecological Footprint analysis is an accounting tool that enables us to estimate the resource consumption and waste assimilation requirements of a defined human population or economy in terms of a corresponding productive land area. Carbon footprint can be studied by counting the Carbon dioxide emission or waste through fossil fuels consumption in vehicles. The result shows the human activities impact on environment in certain unit (bioproductive land) and can be connected with earth carrying capacity (biocapacity). Keywords:  ecological footprint, carbon footprint,  biocapacity

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