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

ABSTRACT: 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 Susta

SUBMITTER: Vanham D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853168 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature