Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs.

Environmental footprint Environmental footprint assessment Family Footprint Footprint family Planetary boundaries

Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
25 Nov 2019
Historique:
received: 26 06 2019
revised: 26 07 2019
accepted: 26 07 2019
entrez: 23 10 2019
pubmed: 23 10 2019
medline: 23 10 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The number of publications on environmental footprint indicators has been growing rapidly, but with limited efforts to integrate different footprints into a coherent framework. Such integration is important for comprehensive understanding of environmental issues, policy formulation and assessment of trade-offs between different environmental concerns. Here, we systematize published footprint studies and define a family of footprints that can be used for the assessment of environmental sustainability. We identify overlaps between different footprints and analyse how they relate to the nine planetary boundaries and visualize the crucial information they provide for local and planetary sustainability. In addition, we assess how the footprint family delivers on measuring progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), considering its ability to quantify environmental pressures along the supply chain and relating them to the water-energy-food-ecosystem (WEFE) nexus and ecosystem services. We argue that the footprint family is a flexible framework where particular members can be included or excluded according to the context or area of concern. Our paper is based upon a recent workshop bringing together global leading experts on existing environmental footprint indicators.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133642 PMID: 31635013 PMC: PMC6853168
pubmed: 31635013
pii: S0048-9697(19)33567-3
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133642
pmc: PMC6853168
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

133642

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Auteurs

Davy Vanham (D)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy. Electronic address: davy.vanham@ec.europa.eu.

Adrian Leip (A)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Alessandro Galli (A)

Global Footprint Network, 18 Avenue Louis-Casai, 1219 Geneva, Switzerland.

Thomas Kastner (T)

Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Martin Bruckner (M)

Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Ecological Economics, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria.

Aimable Uwizeye (A)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Animal Production and Health Division, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy; Animal Production Systems group, Wageningen University & Research, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, the Netherlands; Teagasc - Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme, Johnstown Castle, Wexford, Ireland.

Kimo van Dijk (K)

European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESSP), Avenue du Dirigeable 8, 1170 Brussels, Belgium.

Ertug Ercin (E)

R2Water Research and Consultancy, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Carole Dalin (C)

Institute for Sustainable Resources, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, University College London, WC1H 0NN London, UK.

Miguel Brandão (M)

KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Stockholm SE-100 44, Sweden.

Simone Bastianoni (S)

Ecodynamics Group - Department of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Siena, Pian dei Mantellini 44, 53100 Siena, Italy.

Kai Fang (K)

School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, 310058 Hangzhou, China.

Allison Leach (A)

Department of Natural Resources, The Environment and The Sustainability Institute, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.

Ashok Chapagain (A)

University of Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Dr, Park West, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa.

Marijn Van der Velde (M)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Serenella Sala (S)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Rana Pant (R)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Lucia Mancini (L)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Fabio Monforti-Ferrario (F)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Gema Carmona-Garcia (G)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Alexandra Marques (A)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Franz Weiss (F)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Arjen Y Hoekstra (AY)

Twente Water Centre, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, Enschede, Netherlands; Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

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