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Dr. Alessandro Galli
Director Mediterranean-MENA Program, Global Footprint Network, International Environment House 2, 7-9 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Geneva, Switzerland

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Journal article
Published: 08 August 2020 in Science of The Total Environment
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The food system is increasingly acknowledged as the single largest reason for humans' transgression of key planetary limits and it is gaining centrality in our societal run-up towards a sustainable future, especially at city level. In Portugal, a country characterized by high meat and fish consumption, noticeable food wastage, and high urbanization level, fully understanding and then transforming the food system is of priority. Here we investigate the significance of food in comparison to other daily anthropogenic demands and the current sourcing and resource intensities profiles of dietary patterns at Portuguese national and city level through Ecological Footprint Accounting. A critical assessment of gaps in national and local food policies to trigger a major transformation in the Portuguese food system is also conducted on the basis of a newly proposed analytical framework. Results show that food consumption in Portugal is the single largest reason (≈30%) for transgressing the carrying capacity of Earth ecosystems but, despite the urgent need for changes in Portuguese food systems, major deficiencies in local policy implementation exist with weak policy commitment, coordination, and lacking institutional capacity as food policies – especially at the local level – are still not prioritized. Similarities with other countries within Europe and their implications are also discussed.

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Alessandro Galli; Sara Moreno Pires; Katsunori Iha; Armando Abrunhosa Alves; David Lin; Maria Serena Mancini; Filipe Teles. Sustainable food transition in Portugal: Assessing the Footprint of dietary choices and gaps in national and local food policies. Science of The Total Environment 2020, 749, 141307 -141307.

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Alessandro Galli, Sara Moreno Pires, Katsunori Iha, Armando Abrunhosa Alves, David Lin, Maria Serena Mancini, Filipe Teles. Sustainable food transition in Portugal: Assessing the Footprint of dietary choices and gaps in national and local food policies. Science of The Total Environment. 2020; 749 ():141307-141307.

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Alessandro Galli; Sara Moreno Pires; Katsunori Iha; Armando Abrunhosa Alves; David Lin; Maria Serena Mancini; Filipe Teles. 2020. "Sustainable food transition in Portugal: Assessing the Footprint of dietary choices and gaps in national and local food policies." Science of The Total Environment 749, no. : 141307-141307.

Letter
Published: 01 February 2020 in Environmental Research Letters
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During the last 50 years, humanity's Ecological Footprint has increased by nearly 190% indicating a growing unbalance in the human-environment relationship, coupled with major environmental and social changes. Our ability to live within the planet's biological limits requires not only a major re-think in how we produce and distribute 'things', but also a shift in consumption activities. Footprint calculators can provide a framing that communicates the extent to which an individual's daily activities are compatible with our One Planet context. This paper presents the findings from the first international study to assess the value of personal Footprint calculators in guiding individuals towards sustainable consumption choices. It focuses specifically on Global Footprint Network's personal Footprint calculator, and aims to understand the profile of calculator users and assess the contribution of calculators to increasing individual awareness and encouraging sustainable choices. Our survey of 4245 respondents show that 75% of users resided in 10 countries, 54% were aged 18–34 years and had largely used the calculator within an educational context (62%). The calculator was considered a valuable tool for knowledge generation by 91% of users, and 78% found it useful to motivate action. However, only 23% indicated the calculator provided them with the necessary information to make actual changes to their life and reduce their personal Footprint. The paper discusses how and why this personal Footprint calculator has been effective in enhancing individuals' understanding of the environmental impact of their actions, framing the scale of the problem and empowering users to understand the impacts of different lifestyle choices. Those individual-level and system-level changes needed to generate global sustainability outcomes are also discussed. Similar to other calculators, a gap is also identified in terms of this calculator facilitating individuals to convert new knowledge into action.

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Andrea Collins; Alessandro Galli; Tara Hipwood; Adeline Murthy. Living within a One Planet reality: the contribution of personal Footprint calculators. Environmental Research Letters 2020, 15, 025008 .

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Andrea Collins, Alessandro Galli, Tara Hipwood, Adeline Murthy. Living within a One Planet reality: the contribution of personal Footprint calculators. Environmental Research Letters. 2020; 15 (2):025008.

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Andrea Collins; Alessandro Galli; Tara Hipwood; Adeline Murthy. 2020. "Living within a One Planet reality: the contribution of personal Footprint calculators." Environmental Research Letters 15, no. 2: 025008.

Journal article
Published: 05 September 2019 in Cities
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The unsustainable use of our planet's resources needs to be tackled from different angles and multiple levels of governance. As the human population urbanizes, having access to reliable, cross-cutting, quantitative city-level sustainability metrics is key to understanding the environmental impacts of urban dwellers and the role cities can play in the 21st century sustainability challenge. Framing the environmental pillar of urban sustainability with an overarching metric like the Ecological Footprint informs stakeholders and citizens about a city's overall pressure on the biosphere. In Portugal, six cities established a pioneering collaborative project to guide their transition to sustainability and support city governance; this paper presents the results of the first phase of the project. We tracked annual demand for natural resources and ecological services by the city residents and compared it against the “carrying capacity” of the cities' ecological assets. We then assessed the ability of this new data to increase local environmental awareness and support local public policies in Portugal and elsewhere. Lessons from this study inform the ongoing debate on the Ecological Footprint's usefulness as sustainability metric for cities, and point to specific policy insights for managing key consumption sectors and reaching key targets such as the UN SDGs.

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Alessandro Galli; Katsunori Iha; Sara Moreno Pires; Maria Serena Mancini; Armando Abrunhosa Alves; Golnar Zokai; David Lin; Adeline Murthy; Mathis Wackernagel. Assessing the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of Portuguese cities: Critical results for environmental awareness and local management. Cities 2019, 96, 102442 .

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Alessandro Galli, Katsunori Iha, Sara Moreno Pires, Maria Serena Mancini, Armando Abrunhosa Alves, Golnar Zokai, David Lin, Adeline Murthy, Mathis Wackernagel. Assessing the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of Portuguese cities: Critical results for environmental awareness and local management. Cities. 2019; 96 ():102442.

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Alessandro Galli; Katsunori Iha; Sara Moreno Pires; Maria Serena Mancini; Armando Abrunhosa Alves; Golnar Zokai; David Lin; Adeline Murthy; Mathis Wackernagel. 2019. "Assessing the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of Portuguese cities: Critical results for environmental awareness and local management." Cities 96, no. : 102442.

Journal article
Published: 17 September 2018 in Resources
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Ecological Footprint accounting quantifies the supply and demand of Earth’s biocapacity. The National Footprint Accounts (NFA) are the most widely used Ecological Footprint (EF) dataset, and provide results for most countries and the world from 1961 to 2014, based primarily on publicly available UN datasets. Here, we review the evolution of the NFA, describe and quantify the effects of improvements that have been implemented into the accounts since the 2012 edition, and review the latest global trends. Comparing results over six editions of NFAs, we find that time-series trends in world results remain stable, and that the world Ecological Footprint for the latest common year (2008) has increased six percent after four major accounting improvements and more than thirty minor improvements. The latest results from the NFA 2018 Edition for the year 2014 indicate that humanity’s Ecological Footprint is 1.7 Earths, and that global ecological overshoot continues to grow. While improved management practices and increased agricultural yields have assisted in a steady increase of Earth’s biocapacity since 1961, humanity’s Ecological Footprint continues to increase at a faster pace than global biocapacity, particularly in Asia, where the total and per capita Ecological Footprint are increasing faster than all other regions.

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David Lin; Laurel Hanscom; Adeline Murthy; Alessandro Galli; Mikel Evans; Evan Neill; Maria Serena Mancini; Jon Martindill; Fatime-Zahra Medouar; Shiyu Huang; Mathis Wackernagel. Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018. Resources 2018, 7, 58 .

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David Lin, Laurel Hanscom, Adeline Murthy, Alessandro Galli, Mikel Evans, Evan Neill, Maria Serena Mancini, Jon Martindill, Fatime-Zahra Medouar, Shiyu Huang, Mathis Wackernagel. Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018. Resources. 2018; 7 (3):58.

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David Lin; Laurel Hanscom; Adeline Murthy; Alessandro Galli; Mikel Evans; Evan Neill; Maria Serena Mancini; Jon Martindill; Fatime-Zahra Medouar; Shiyu Huang; Mathis Wackernagel. 2018. "Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018." Resources 7, no. 3: 58.

Journal article
Published: 16 June 2018 in Resources
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Tourism represents a key economic sector worldwide, constituting great leverage for local economic development but also putting noticeable environmental pressures on local natural resources. Ecotourism may be a viable alternative to mass tourism to minimize impacts on ecosystems, but it needs shared sustainability standards and monitoring tools to evaluate impacts. This paper presents a first methodological proposition to calculate the environmental impact of ecotourism packages through the use of an ad-hoc, customized version of the Ecological Footprint methodology. It follows a participatory, bottom-up approach to collecting input data for the four main services (Accommodation, Food & Drinks, Activity & Service, and Mobility & Transfer) provided to tourists through the use of surveys and stakeholders engagement. The outcome of our approach materializes in an excel-based ecotourism workbook capable of processing input data collected through surveys and returning Ecological Footprint values for specific ecotourism packages. Although applied to ecotourism in Mediterranean Protected Areas within the context of the DestiMED project, we believe that the methodology and approach presented here can constitute a blueprint and a benchmark for future studies dealing with the impact of ecotourism packages.

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Maria Serena Mancini; Mikel Evans; Katsunori Iha; Carla Danelutti; Alessandro Galli. Assessing the Ecological Footprint of Ecotourism Packages: A Methodological Proposition. Resources 2018, 7, 38 .

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Maria Serena Mancini, Mikel Evans, Katsunori Iha, Carla Danelutti, Alessandro Galli. Assessing the Ecological Footprint of Ecotourism Packages: A Methodological Proposition. Resources. 2018; 7 (2):38.

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Maria Serena Mancini; Mikel Evans; Katsunori Iha; Carla Danelutti; Alessandro Galli. 2018. "Assessing the Ecological Footprint of Ecotourism Packages: A Methodological Proposition." Resources 7, no. 2: 38.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2018 in Environmental Science & Policy
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Following the UN adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015, the Government of Montenegro entered in the final phase of revising of National Strategy for Sustainable Development (NSSD 2030). Under the supervision of the National Council for Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Integrated Coastal Zone Management, an NSSD team of national and international experts was assembled under the coordination of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism. To demonstrate commitment to the UN 2030 Agenda, Montenegro decided to center the NSSD 2030 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), targets and indicators. One of the first UN member countries to implement the UN 2030 Agenda within the national policy context, Montenegro adopted its NSSD 2030 on July 7, 2016. As members of the NSSD team, here we 1) describe how the UN 2030 Agenda has been implemented within the policy context of Montenegro’s NSSD 2030, and 2) focus on the identification of the NSSD 2030 monitoring and reporting framework. Our key finding is that 26 institutions will be handling data for assessing 137 out of the 241 (56.8%) SDG indicators in the first reporting period scheduled for 2019. Although the paper deals with the implementation of the SDGs in Montenegro and its implications, we believe it will be useful in informing other countries in their process of national transposition and operationalization of the UN 2030 Agenda.

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Alessandro Galli; Gordana Đurović; Laurel Hanscom; Jelena Knežević. Think globally, act locally: Implementing the sustainable development goals in Montenegro. Environmental Science & Policy 2018, 84, 159 -169.

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Alessandro Galli, Gordana Đurović, Laurel Hanscom, Jelena Knežević. Think globally, act locally: Implementing the sustainable development goals in Montenegro. Environmental Science & Policy. 2018; 84 ():159-169.

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Alessandro Galli; Gordana Đurović; Laurel Hanscom; Jelena Knežević. 2018. "Think globally, act locally: Implementing the sustainable development goals in Montenegro." Environmental Science & Policy 84, no. : 159-169.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2018 in Ecosystem Services
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Ecosystem services are the benefits that humans derive from Nature. In the last decades, research efforts have been made to better understand the connections between the natural sphere and the human sphere as well as to propose novel approaches to measure the value of ecosystem services. While economic valuation has so far been the most commonly used approach – expressing ecosystem services’ value in monetary units – recent efforts have focused on alternative qualitative or biophysical accounting approaches to express the value of ecosystem service in physical units. The role of Ecological Footprint accounting as a biophysical approach for measuring the value of ecosystem services through a surface-equivalent unit is here investigated. This accounting tool allows keeping track of both the human demand on, and the Nature’s supply of, a precise sub-set of ecosystem services thus being able to make an ecological balance at the country level. A comparison between Ecological Footprint and economic valuation analyses is finally performed, for the forest ecosystem type, to highlight complementarities and correlations of these different approaches.

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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Luca Coscieme; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Federico Maria Pulselli; Simone Bastianoni; Nadia Marchettini. Exploring ecosystem services assessment through Ecological Footprint accounting. Ecosystem Services 2018, 30, 228 -235.

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Maria Serena Mancini, Alessandro Galli, Luca Coscieme, Valentina Niccolucci, David Lin, Federico Maria Pulselli, Simone Bastianoni, Nadia Marchettini. Exploring ecosystem services assessment through Ecological Footprint accounting. Ecosystem Services. 2018; 30 ():228-235.

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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Luca Coscieme; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Federico Maria Pulselli; Simone Bastianoni; Nadia Marchettini. 2018. "Exploring ecosystem services assessment through Ecological Footprint accounting." Ecosystem Services 30, no. : 228-235.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Andrea Collins; Alessandro Galli; Nicoletta Patrizi; Federico Maria Pulselli. Learning and teaching sustainability: The contribution of Ecological Footprint calculators. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 174, 1000 -1010.

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Andrea Collins, Alessandro Galli, Nicoletta Patrizi, Federico Maria Pulselli. Learning and teaching sustainability: The contribution of Ecological Footprint calculators. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 174 ():1000-1010.

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Andrea Collins; Alessandro Galli; Nicoletta Patrizi; Federico Maria Pulselli. 2018. "Learning and teaching sustainability: The contribution of Ecological Footprint calculators." Journal of Cleaner Production 174, no. : 1000-1010.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2017 in Ecological Indicators
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Over the past decade, Ecological Footprint has become one of the most popular and widespread indicators for sustainability assessment and resource management. However, its popularity has been coupled, especially in recent years, by the emergence of critical views on the indicator's rationale, methodology and policy usefulness. Most of these criticisms commonly point to the inability of the Ecological Footprint to track the human-induced depletion of natural capital stocks as one of the main shortcomings of the methodology. Fully addressing this issue will require research efforts and, most likely, further methodological refinements. The aim of this paper is therefore to outline the basis of a new area of investigation in Ecological Footprint research, primarily aimed at implementing the distinction between the use of stocks and the use of flows in Ecological Footprint Accounting and debating its implications

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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Laurel Hanscom; Mathis Wackernagel; Simone Bastianoni; Nadia Marchettini. Stocks and flows of natural capital: Implications for Ecological Footprint. Ecological Indicators 2017, 77, 123 -128.

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Maria Serena Mancini, Alessandro Galli, Valentina Niccolucci, David Lin, Laurel Hanscom, Mathis Wackernagel, Simone Bastianoni, Nadia Marchettini. Stocks and flows of natural capital: Implications for Ecological Footprint. Ecological Indicators. 2017; 77 ():123-128.

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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Laurel Hanscom; Mathis Wackernagel; Simone Bastianoni; Nadia Marchettini. 2017. "Stocks and flows of natural capital: Implications for Ecological Footprint." Ecological Indicators 77, no. : 123-128.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2017 in Environmental Science & Policy
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Wafaa Baabou; Nicole Grunewald; Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon; Michel Gressot; Alessandro Galli. The Ecological Footprint of Mediterranean cities: Awareness creation and policy implications. Environmental Science & Policy 2017, 69, 94 -104.

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Wafaa Baabou, Nicole Grunewald, Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon, Michel Gressot, Alessandro Galli. The Ecological Footprint of Mediterranean cities: Awareness creation and policy implications. Environmental Science & Policy. 2017; 69 ():94-104.

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Wafaa Baabou; Nicole Grunewald; Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon; Michel Gressot; Alessandro Galli. 2017. "The Ecological Footprint of Mediterranean cities: Awareness creation and policy implications." Environmental Science & Policy 69, no. : 94-104.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2017 in Science of The Total Environment
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Securing food for growing populations while minimizing environmental externalities is becoming a key topic in the current sustainability debate. This is particularly true in the Mediterranean region, which is characterized by scarce natural resources and increasing climate-related impacts. This paper focuses on the pressure Mediterranean people place on the Earth ecosystems because of their food consumption and sourcing patterns and then explores ways in which such pressure can be reduced. To do so, it uses an Ecological-Footprint-Extended Multi-Regional Input-Output (EF-MRIO) approach applied to 15 Mediterranean countries. Results indicate that food consumption is a substantial driver of the region's ecological deficit, whereby demand for renewable resources and ecosystems services outpaces the capacity of its ecosystems to provide them. Portugal, Malta and Greece are found to have the highest per capita food Footprints (1.50, 1.25 and 1.22 global hectares (gha), respectively), while Slovenia, Egypt and Israel have the lowest (0.63, 0.64 and 0.79gha, respectively). With the exception of France, all Mediterranean countries rely on the biocapacity of foreign countries to satisfy their residents' demand for food. By analyzing the effect of shifting to a calorie-adequate diet or changing dietary patterns, we finally point out that the region's Ecological Footprint - and therefore its ecological deficit - could be reduced by 8% to 10%.

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Alessandro Galli; Katsunori Iha; Martin Halle; Hamid El Bilali; Nicole Grunewald; Derek Eaton; Roberto Capone; Philipp Debs; Francesco Bottalico. Mediterranean countries' food consumption and sourcing patterns:An Ecological Footprint viewpoint. Science of The Total Environment 2017, 578, 383 -391.

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Alessandro Galli, Katsunori Iha, Martin Halle, Hamid El Bilali, Nicole Grunewald, Derek Eaton, Roberto Capone, Philipp Debs, Francesco Bottalico. Mediterranean countries' food consumption and sourcing patterns:An Ecological Footprint viewpoint. Science of The Total Environment. 2017; 578 ():383-391.

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Alessandro Galli; Katsunori Iha; Martin Halle; Hamid El Bilali; Nicole Grunewald; Derek Eaton; Roberto Capone; Philipp Debs; Francesco Bottalico. 2017. "Mediterranean countries' food consumption and sourcing patterns:An Ecological Footprint viewpoint." Science of The Total Environment 578, no. : 383-391.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2016 in Ecological Indicators
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Alessandro Galli; Mario Giampietro; Steve Goldfinger; Elias Lazarus; David Lin; Andrea Saltelli; Mathis Wackernagel; Felix Müller. Questioning the Ecological Footprint. Ecological Indicators 2016, 69, 224 -232.

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Alessandro Galli, Mario Giampietro, Steve Goldfinger, Elias Lazarus, David Lin, Andrea Saltelli, Mathis Wackernagel, Felix Müller. Questioning the Ecological Footprint. Ecological Indicators. 2016; 69 ():224-232.

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Alessandro Galli; Mario Giampietro; Steve Goldfinger; Elias Lazarus; David Lin; Andrea Saltelli; Mathis Wackernagel; Felix Müller. 2016. "Questioning the Ecological Footprint." Ecological Indicators 69, no. : 224-232.

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Published: 01 February 2016 in Ecological Indicators
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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Simone Bastianoni; Mathis Wackernagel; Nadia Marchettini. Ecological Footprint: Refining the carbon Footprint calculation. Ecological Indicators 2016, 61, 390 -403.

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Maria Serena Mancini, Alessandro Galli, Valentina Niccolucci, David Lin, Simone Bastianoni, Mathis Wackernagel, Nadia Marchettini. Ecological Footprint: Refining the carbon Footprint calculation. Ecological Indicators. 2016; 61 ():390-403.

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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Simone Bastianoni; Mathis Wackernagel; Nadia Marchettini. 2016. "Ecological Footprint: Refining the carbon Footprint calculation." Ecological Indicators 61, no. : 390-403.

Book chapter
Published: 20 November 2015 in Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products
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As the impact of human activities on the environment grows, so does humanity's awareness and recognition of ecological limits. Recent and ongoing lines of research suggest that human demands on multiple planetary systems are increasing and are possibly beyond safe operating limits. This suggests the need for systemic and crosscutting assessments, which can address and compare the additive impact of the multiple demands on ecological limits. Built upon this concept, the Ecological Footprint Accounting framework quantifies a specific ecological budget, biocapacity, and the extent to which human demands on renewable resources and services approach or exceed this budget, which is the Ecological Footprint. This chapter describes the overarching context and rationale of the approach, the conceptual framework, current implementations and applications, recommended usage, and future developments of the methodology.

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David Lin; Alessandro Galli; Michael Borucke; Elias Lazarus; Nicole Grunewald; Jon Martindill; David Zimmerman; Serena Mancini; Katsunori Iha; Mathis Wackernagel. Tracking Supply and Demand of Biocapacity through Ecological Footprint Accounting. Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products 2015, 179 -199.

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David Lin, Alessandro Galli, Michael Borucke, Elias Lazarus, Nicole Grunewald, Jon Martindill, David Zimmerman, Serena Mancini, Katsunori Iha, Mathis Wackernagel. Tracking Supply and Demand of Biocapacity through Ecological Footprint Accounting. Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products. 2015; ():179-199.

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David Lin; Alessandro Galli; Michael Borucke; Elias Lazarus; Nicole Grunewald; Jon Martindill; David Zimmerman; Serena Mancini; Katsunori Iha; Mathis Wackernagel. 2015. "Tracking Supply and Demand of Biocapacity through Ecological Footprint Accounting." Sustainability Assessment of Renewables-Based Products , no. : 179-199.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2015 in Ecological Indicators
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David Lin; Mathis Wackernagel; Alessandro Galli; Ronna Kelly. Ecological Footprint: Informative and evolving – A response to van den Bergh and Grazi (2014). Ecological Indicators 2015, 58, 464 -468.

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David Lin, Mathis Wackernagel, Alessandro Galli, Ronna Kelly. Ecological Footprint: Informative and evolving – A response to van den Bergh and Grazi (2014). Ecological Indicators. 2015; 58 ():464-468.

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David Lin; Mathis Wackernagel; Alessandro Galli; Ronna Kelly. 2015. "Ecological Footprint: Informative and evolving – A response to van den Bergh and Grazi (2014)." Ecological Indicators 58, no. : 464-468.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2015 in Environmental Science & Policy
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This paper applies Ecological Footprint accounting to Mediterranean countries to track ecological asset balances and investigate the long-term feasibility of fulfilling natural resource and service needs. Our findings are that the Mediterranean region currently uses approximately 2.5 times more natural resources and ecological services than their ecosystems can provide. We argue that when consumption exceeds local availability, countries either resort to depletion of ecological assets or turn to international trade in order to satisfy their demands. Access to outside resources is however limited by (a) the availability of resources on international markets and (b) their affordability. Countries highly dependent on natural resource imports therefore expose their economies to the macroeconomic consequences of price volatility. We find that trade-related effects of natural resource price volatility are significant for Mediterranean economies as a 10% increase in the price of natural resources corresponds with a change in the trade balance between +7% and −2.4% of the GDP. We conclude that, in a world characterised by the existence of physical limits to the availability of global ecological assets, a systemic risk may exist for Mediterranean economies due to the concurrence of (1) ecological asset scarcity, (2) increasing prices and (3) challenging financial situations

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Alessandro Galli; Martin Halle; Nicole Grunewald. Physical limits to resource access and utilisation and their economic implications in Mediterranean economies. Environmental Science & Policy 2015, 51, 125 -136.

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Alessandro Galli, Martin Halle, Nicole Grunewald. Physical limits to resource access and utilisation and their economic implications in Mediterranean economies. Environmental Science & Policy. 2015; 51 ():125-136.

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Alessandro Galli; Martin Halle; Nicole Grunewald. 2015. "Physical limits to resource access and utilisation and their economic implications in Mediterranean economies." Environmental Science & Policy 51, no. : 125-136.

Journal article
Published: 09 June 2015 in Diversity
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Human pressure on ecosystems is among the major drivers of biodiversity loss. As biodiversity plays a key role in supporting the human enterprise, its decline puts the well-being of human societies at risk. Halting biodiversity loss is therefore a key policy priority, as reflected in the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets under strategic goal A. The Ecological Footprint has become a widely used metric for natural capital and ecosystem accounting, and is frequently cited in the sustainability debate, where it is often used for tracking human-induced pressures on ecosystems and biodiversity. Given its potential role as an indirect metric for biodiversity-related policies, this paper breaks down the Ecological Footprint into its components and analyzes resource and ecosystem service flows at an international level. We discuss its usefulness in tracking the underlying drivers of habitat impacts and biodiversity loss. We find that: China is a major net importer of all biomass biocapacity components; the largest net exporters of forest biocapacity are not low-income countries; a very high proportion of the Ecological Footprint of fishing grounds is traded internationally; Singapore and at least three Middle East countries are almost wholly reliant on net imports for the cropland biocapacity they consume.

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Elias Lazarus; David Lin; Jon Martindill; Jeanette Hardiman; Louisa Pitney; Alessandro Galli. Biodiversity Loss and the Ecological Footprint of Trade. Diversity 2015, 7, 170 -191.

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Elias Lazarus, David Lin, Jon Martindill, Jeanette Hardiman, Louisa Pitney, Alessandro Galli. Biodiversity Loss and the Ecological Footprint of Trade. Diversity. 2015; 7 (2):170-191.

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Elias Lazarus; David Lin; Jon Martindill; Jeanette Hardiman; Louisa Pitney; Alessandro Galli. 2015. "Biodiversity Loss and the Ecological Footprint of Trade." Diversity 7, no. 2: 170-191.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2015 in Environmental Science & Policy
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Ecological Footprint and biocapacity metrics have been widely used in natural capital and ecosystem accounting, and are frequently cited in the sustainability debate. Given their potential role as metrics for environmental science and policy, a critical scrutiny is needed. Moreover, these metrics remain unclear to many, are subject to criticisms, and discussion continues regarding their policy relevance. This paper aims to explain the rationale behind Ecological Footprint Accounting (EFA) and help ensure that Ecological Footprint and biocapacity results are properly interpreted and effectively used in evaluating risks and developing policy recommendations. The conclusion of this paper is that the main value-added of Ecological Footprint Accounting is highlighting trade-offs between human activities by providing both a final aggregate indicator and an accounting framework that shed light on the relationships between many of the anthropogenic drivers that contribute to ecological overshoot

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Alessandro Galli. On the rationale and policy usefulness of Ecological Footprint Accounting: The case of Morocco. Environmental Science & Policy 2015, 48, 210 -224.

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Alessandro Galli. On the rationale and policy usefulness of Ecological Footprint Accounting: The case of Morocco. Environmental Science & Policy. 2015; 48 ():210-224.

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Alessandro Galli. 2015. "On the rationale and policy usefulness of Ecological Footprint Accounting: The case of Morocco." Environmental Science & Policy 48, no. : 210-224.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2014 in Ecological Indicators
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Steve Goldfinger; Mathis Wackernagel; Alessandro Galli; Elias Lazarus; David Lin. Footprint facts and fallacies: A response to Giampietro and Saltelli (2014) “Footprints to Nowhere”. Ecological Indicators 2014, 46, 622 -632.

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Steve Goldfinger, Mathis Wackernagel, Alessandro Galli, Elias Lazarus, David Lin. Footprint facts and fallacies: A response to Giampietro and Saltelli (2014) “Footprints to Nowhere”. Ecological Indicators. 2014; 46 ():622-632.

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Steve Goldfinger; Mathis Wackernagel; Alessandro Galli; Elias Lazarus; David Lin. 2014. "Footprint facts and fallacies: A response to Giampietro and Saltelli (2014) “Footprints to Nowhere”." Ecological Indicators 46, no. : 622-632.

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In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related “Aichi Targets” to be achieved within a decade. We provide a comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward these global targets using 55 indicator data sets. We projected indicator trends to 2020 using an adaptive statistical framework that incorporated the specific properties of individual time series. On current trajectories, results suggest that despite accelerating policy and management responses to the biodiversity crisis, the impacts of these efforts are unlikely to be reflected in improved trends in the state of biodiversity by 2020. We highlight areas of societal endeavor requiring additional efforts to achieve the Aichi Targets, and provide a baseline against which to assess future progress.

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Derek P. Tittensor; Matt Walpole; Samantha L. L. Hill; Daniel G. Boyce; Gregory L. Britten; Neil D. Burgess; Stuart H. M. Butchart; Paul W. Leadley; Eugenie C. Regan; Rob Alkemade; Roswitha Baumung; Céline Bellard; Lex Bouwman; Nadine J. Bowles-Newark; Anna M. Chenery; William W. L. Cheung; Villy Christensen; H. David Cooper; Annabel R. Crowther; Matthew J. R. Dixon; Alessandro Galli; Valérie Gaveau; Richard D. Gregory; Nicolas L. Gutierrez; Tim L. Hirsch; Robert Höft; Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley; Marion Karmann; Cornelia B. Krug; Fiona J. Leverington; Jonathan Loh; Rik Kutsch Lojenga; Kelly Malsch; Alexandra Marques; David H. W. Morgan; Peter J. Mumby; Tim Newbold; Kieran Noonan-Mooney; Shyama N. Pagad; Bradley C. Parks; Henrique M. Pereira; Tim Robertson; Carlo Rondinini; Luca Santini; Jörn P. W. Scharlemann; Stefan Schindler; U. Rashid Sumaila; Louise S.L. Teh; Jennifer van Kolck; Piero Visconti; Yimin Ye. A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets. Science 2014, 346, 241 -244.

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Derek P. Tittensor, Matt Walpole, Samantha L. L. Hill, Daniel G. Boyce, Gregory L. Britten, Neil D. Burgess, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Paul W. Leadley, Eugenie C. Regan, Rob Alkemade, Roswitha Baumung, Céline Bellard, Lex Bouwman, Nadine J. Bowles-Newark, Anna M. Chenery, William W. L. Cheung, Villy Christensen, H. David Cooper, Annabel R. Crowther, Matthew J. R. Dixon, Alessandro Galli, Valérie Gaveau, Richard D. Gregory, Nicolas L. Gutierrez, Tim L. Hirsch, Robert Höft, Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Marion Karmann, Cornelia B. Krug, Fiona J. Leverington, Jonathan Loh, Rik Kutsch Lojenga, Kelly Malsch, Alexandra Marques, David H. W. Morgan, Peter J. Mumby, Tim Newbold, Kieran Noonan-Mooney, Shyama N. Pagad, Bradley C. Parks, Henrique M. Pereira, Tim Robertson, Carlo Rondinini, Luca Santini, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Stefan Schindler, U. Rashid Sumaila, Louise S.L. Teh, Jennifer van Kolck, Piero Visconti, Yimin Ye. A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets. Science. 2014; 346 (6206):241-244.

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Derek P. Tittensor; Matt Walpole; Samantha L. L. Hill; Daniel G. Boyce; Gregory L. Britten; Neil D. Burgess; Stuart H. M. Butchart; Paul W. Leadley; Eugenie C. Regan; Rob Alkemade; Roswitha Baumung; Céline Bellard; Lex Bouwman; Nadine J. Bowles-Newark; Anna M. Chenery; William W. L. Cheung; Villy Christensen; H. David Cooper; Annabel R. Crowther; Matthew J. R. Dixon; Alessandro Galli; Valérie Gaveau; Richard D. Gregory; Nicolas L. Gutierrez; Tim L. Hirsch; Robert Höft; Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley; Marion Karmann; Cornelia B. Krug; Fiona J. Leverington; Jonathan Loh; Rik Kutsch Lojenga; Kelly Malsch; Alexandra Marques; David H. W. Morgan; Peter J. Mumby; Tim Newbold; Kieran Noonan-Mooney; Shyama N. Pagad; Bradley C. Parks; Henrique M. Pereira; Tim Robertson; Carlo Rondinini; Luca Santini; Jörn P. W. Scharlemann; Stefan Schindler; U. Rashid Sumaila; Louise S.L. Teh; Jennifer van Kolck; Piero Visconti; Yimin Ye. 2014. "A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets." Science 346, no. 6206: 241-244.