Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint

By Arjen Y. Hoekstra, T. Wiedmann. Science, 2014

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Water Science and Technology

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In Environmental Engineering

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3. Zhu Liu
4. Kuishuang Feng
5. G. P. Peters
6. Hongyan Zhao
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In Water Science and Technology

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6. Francesco Laio
7. Luca Ridolfi
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Citations in the corpus

• The effects of globalization on Ecological Footprints: an empirical analysis (2017, background): “Recent research makes clear that humanity’s pressures on the environment are currently unsustainable (Hoekstra and Wiedmann 2014; Steffen et al. 2015a, b).”
• Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts (2019, background): “These predictions have been used to assess whether mankind will run out of water in the next few decades, and to investigate possible strategies to deal with the global food-water-energy nexus (Hoekstra and Wiedmann 2014).”
• Systems integration for global sustainability (2015, background): “6700 billion m(3)/year (without reference point) (20).”
• The Circular Economy: Swings and Roundabouts? (2019, background): “…extracted, manufactured, used and then discarded to induce economic growth, cannot lead to Sustainable Development due its damage to the environment and its inability to promote global social equity (Frosch and Gallopoulos, 1989; Andersen, 2006; Hoekstra and Wiedmann, 2014; Costanza et al., 2014).”
• Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption (2015, background): “Since 1980, we have exceeded many key ecological indicators (6, 7).”
• Assessment of China's virtual air pollution transport embodied in trade by using a consumption-based emission inventory (2014, background): “Reasonable shared responsibility criteria (e.g., Gallego and Lenzen, 2005; Lenzen et al., 2007; Cadarso et al., 2012; Hoekstra and Wiedmann, 2014) involving both producers and consumers in emission reduction could help developing provinces in China assume the cost increase derived from mitigation…”
• Imbalance and drivers of carbon emissions embodied in trade along the Belt and Road Initiative (2020, background): “Numerous studies have been conducted to measure the environmental footprint of international trade [3,4], with particular emphasis on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions regarding energy consumptions [5,6,7].”
• Energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic growth: an ethical dilemma (2017, background): “According to authors such as Galli et al. (2012), Hoekstra and Wiedmann (2014), as well as, Weinzettel et al. (2014) the current environmental footprint poses a material challenge to the capacity of the natural environment to assimilate waste.”
• Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains (2018, background): “In recent years, however, many scholars have turned their attention to the interaction of GVCs and environmental policies (Wiedmann 2009; Hoekstra and Wiedmann 2014).”