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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Biocapacity"”.
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Accounting for Wetlands in Biocapacity: Data Integration, Sensitivity Analysis, and Implications
… accounting frameworks. The Footprint (EF) and Biocapacity (BC) are paired sustainability indicators that together describe the balance between human demand on nature and the biosphere’s regenerative capacity. This thesis integrates wetlands as a distinct category in the Biocapacity framework …
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Developing a Satellite-Based Methodology to Estimate Built-up Biocapacity for Use in the National Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts: A Comparative Study of Pléiades Neo and Sentinel-2 Imagery, Classification Algorithms, and Segmentation Approaches
… framework, yet the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts (NFBA) assume built-up land has the biocapacity of cropland. The NFBA uses equivalence factors and yield factors to transform raw area data into global hectares (gha), hectares of globally average productivity. This thesis aims …
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An evaluation of environmental sustainability of land reform in Zimbabwe : a case study of Chirumanzu District, Midlands Province
… the calculated available ecological resources (biocapacity). The data was processed through the five stages of the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity computation system. The Ecological Footprint system identified cropland, grazing land, built-up land and forestland uses as applicable in this …
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THE ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM; LOCAL VERSUS GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS IN VAL DI MERSE, ITALY
… exceed (in terms of ecological footprint) the biocapacity calculated for Val di Merse. However, biocapacity for Val di Merse is exceeded when arrival transport to the destination is included, with tourist equivalent resident EF rising from 5.36 to 38.15 gha/person. I conclude that tourism …
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DYNAMICS OF SOCIOECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY BASED ON NATIONAL FOOTPRINT ACCOUNTS (1961-2014)
… components of the National Footprint Accounts, Biocapacity and Ecological Footprint per capita for 123 nations between 1961 and 2014. Using a simplified description of the joint trajectories of these components, I perform cluster analysis. The patterns that emerge allow me to describe the …