The Environmental Sustainability of Nations: Benchmarking the Carbon, Water and Land Footprints against Allocated Planetary Boundaries

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 7; no. 8; pp. 11285 - 11305
• Main Authors: Fang, Kai, Heijungs, Reinout, Duan, Zheng, de Snoo, Geert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2015
• Subjects: Carbon; Climate change; Emissions; Environmental policy; Land use; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Netherlands

Growing scientific evidence for the indispensable role of environmental sustainability in sustainable development calls for appropriate frameworks and indicators for environmental sustainability assessment (ESA). In this paper, we operationalize and update the footprint-boundary ESA framework, with...