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Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint book cover

1st Edition

Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

Edited By Robert Vale, Brenda Vale Copyright 2013
344 Pages 110 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 110 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 110 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share ecological footprint.  The authors describe numerical methods used to calculate this,... Read more

Part 1: Introduction 

1. Footprints and Fair Earth Share. Bill Rees and Jennie Moore 

Part 2: What does Living within a Fair Earth Share Mean? 

2.1: Personal Footprint 

2. Food. James Richardson 

3. Domestic Travel. Robert and Brenda Vale 

4. Consumer Goods. Maggie Lawton 

5. The Dwelling.  Nalanie Mithraratne 

6. Tourism. Abbas Mahravan 

2.2: Collective Footprint 

7. Infrastructure. Ning Huang  

8. Government. Jeremy Gabe and Rebecca Gentry 

9. Services. Soo Ryu 

Part 3: Footprints in the Past 

10. A Study of Wellington in the 1950s. Carmeny Field (with Brenda Vale)  

Part 4: Footprints in the Present 

11. A Study of China. Yuefeng Guo 

12. A Study of Suburban Thailand. Sirimas Hengrasmee 

13. Kampung Naga, Indonesia. Grace Pamungkas (with Brenda Vale and Fabricio Chicca) 

14. A Study of Hanoi, Vietnam. Han Thuc Tran 

15. A Study of Suburban New Zealand.  Sumita Ghosh 

16. The Hockerton Housing Project, England. Brenda and Robert Vale 

17. Education for Lower Footprints. Sant Chansomsak 

18. Footprints and Income. Ella Lawton 

19. Sustainable Urban Form. Fabricio Chicca 

Part 5: Conclusions 

20. "I wouldn't start from here..." Robert and Brenda Vale

Biography

Robert and Brenda Vale are Professorial Research Fellows in the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. They share common research interests in ecological footprinting and sustainable building design, and are both currently working on the new Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST) project to deliver ecological footprinting and systems approaches to sustainable development of communities.

"Informed, informative, scholarly, insightful, thoughtful, and thought-provoking... [A] vitally necessary addition to professional, academic, corporate, and governmental library Environmental Studies reference collections." - The Midwest Book Review, June 2013

"‘Sustainability’ is a term that is bandied about all the time, casually applied to anything that is slightly better than the usual, however marginal the improvement might be. This is a book that corrects that mis-use, setting out exactly what a sustainable lifestyle actually entails." – Jeremy Williams, Make Wealth History

"The key contribution of this collection is the provision of extensive, detailed comparative assessments of the relative ecological footprint associated with different dimensions of our resource consumption, providing at times surprising insights into the comparative impact of, for example, automobile versus air travel, or the ecological footprint reduction that could be achieved with a lowering of meat consumption." – Canadian Studies in Population, Debra J. Davidson, University of Alberta

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