Advancing sustainable resource management
A. Sustainability is a specific term with a specific meaning: it requires avoiding ecological overshoot. B. Overshoot can be measured. And there is evidence that humanity is in overshoot. In fact, most industrialized countries run massive ecological deficits. C. To move out of overshoot, governments need first and foremost to develop ecological accounts to track overshoot and to run social marketing campaigns that gather popular support for reducing human pressure on the biosphere.
Alternative title: | using ecological footprint analysis for problem formulation, policy development, and communication |
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Year of publication: |
2001-02-27
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Authors: | Wackernagel, Mathis |
Other Persons: | Vanheukelen, Marc (contributor) ; Linher, Otto (contributor) |
Institutions: | Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Umwelt (contributor) ; European Commission / Directorate-General for the Environment (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Umwelt |
Subject: | EU-Umweltpolitik | EU environmental policy | EU | Nachhaltigkeit | sustainability | Ressourcen | resources | Umweltökonomie | environmental economy | Umweltpolitik | environmental policy |
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