Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy

By M. Wackernagel, N. Schulz, Diana Deumling, A. Linares, Martin Jenkins, V. Kapos, C. Monfreda, J. Loh, N. Myers, R. Norgaard and 1 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002

1,278 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/cb667827bb3af8c3b383f42bea6469c3add9eda3

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Environmental Engineering

1. Manfred Lenzen
2. S. Giljum
3. T. Wiedmann
4. F. Krausmann
5. Edgar G. Hertwich
6. Justin Kitzes
7. G. P. Peters
8. K. Erb

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Andrew K. Jorgenson
2. G. P. Peters
3. Manfred Lenzen
4. James Rice
5. Edgar G. Hertwich
6. Audrey L. Mayer
7. Daniel W. O’Neill
8. Brett Clark

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Edgar G. Hertwich
2. F. Krausmann
3. Manfred Lenzen
4. S. Giljum
5. K. Erb
6. G. P. Peters
7. Justin Kitzes
8. J. Martínez-Alier

Citations in the corpus

• Environmentally efficient weil-being: Rethinking sustainability as the relationship between human well-being and environmental impacts (2009, background): “Among its strengths is the capture of tradeoffs, for example, between consumption of fish and consumption of meat or between the use of fuel wood and fossil fuels (Wackernagel et al. 2002).”
• Societies consuming nature: A panel study of the ecological footprints of nations, 1960–2003 ☆ (2011, background): “The ecological footprint includes only those aspects of resource consumption and waste production for which the Earth has regenerative capacity and where data exist that allow this demand to be quantified in terms of bio-productive area (Wackernagel et al. 2002).”
• Ecological Unequal Exchange: International Trade and Uneven Utilization of Environmental Space in the World System (2007, background): “This uneven appropriation, moreover, is enacted within a global context in which aggregate consumptive demand continues to increase (MEA 2005; Wackernagel et al. 2002).”
• OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (2009, background): “Ours has come to dominate the globe from this perspective (Wackernagel et al. 2002).”
• Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction (2005, background): “level of consumption ( Wackernagel et al. 1999, 2002 ).”
• Ecosystem services: Foundations, opportunities, and challenges for the forest products sector (2009, background): “current rates of energy and resource use exceed the planet’s ability to replenish itself (Wackernagel and Rees, 1996; Wackernagel et al., 2002).”
• A system of systems approach to energy sustainability assessment: Are all renewables really green? (2015, background): “Continuation of this trend leads o natural resources unsustainability and eventually to ecosystem ollapse (Holmberg et al., 1999; Wackernagel et al., 2002; Foley t al., 2005; UN, 2005).”
• Global patterns in human consumption of net primary production (2004, methodology): “Linearity is supported by these and supplemental regressions using: (1) log-transformed richness data; (2) local richness standardized to 100 or more colonies per sample(18); and (3) the two alternative measures of local species diversity, Fisher’s alpha and the Chao 1 estimator of local richness.”
• Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (MEFA) can offer (2004, background): “Even evidence that human resource use presently surpasses the biosphere’s capacity to regenerate (Wackernagel et al., 2002) could, in this view, be interpreted as tolerable, at least for a limited period of time.”
• National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts 2005: The underlying calculation method (2005, background): “The most recent Ecological Footprint accounts (building on Wackernagel et al., 1997, 1999, and 2002a, b) incorporate comprehensive data sources and were strengthened by exposure to a number of other approaches.”
• Environmental Sustainability at Work: A Call to Action (2012, background): “The scientific evidence is clear: human consumption has already exceeded earth’s regenerative capacity (see Wackernagel et al., 2002), and our economic activity is responsible for the large-scale degradation of the natural environment.”
• Measuring sustainable development - Nation by nation (2008, positive): “Following Boutaud (2002) in this study we use the UN Human Development Index (UNDP, 2005) (HDI) as an indicator of development and the Ecological Footprint (Rees, 1992; Rees and Wackernagel, 2004; Wackernagel and Rees, 1996; Wackernagel et al., 2002, 2005) as an indicator of sustainable consumption.”