Umweltbundesamt

Home > Scientific assessment and evaluation of the indicator “Ecological Footprint“

Waste | Resources, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters, Soil | Land

Scientific assessment and evaluation of the indicator “Ecological Footprint“


The Ecological Footprint has proven one of the most successful indicators for communicating the concept of environmental sustainability and the physical limits of our planet. In the past decade the Ecological Footprint has developed into one of the most important measures for resource use in production and consumption at the international level and it is used by a large number of institutions for evaluating impacts of human activities on the environment.

Download
Series
Texte | 47/2007
Number of pages
78
Year of publication
December 2007
Author(s)
Stefan Giljum, Mark Hammer, Andrea Stocker, Maria Lackner, Aaron Best, Daniel Blobel, Wesley Ingwersen, Sandra Naumann, Alexander Neubauer, Craig Simmons, Kevin Lewis, Stanislav Shmelev
Language
English
Other languages
Deutsch
Project No. (FKZ)
363 01 135
Publisher
Umweltbundesamt
File size
1099 KB
Price
0,00 €
Print version
nicht lieferbar
Article:

Tags:
 ecological footprint  ecological sustainability  consumption of resources

The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.

The UBA

Contact

Wörlitzer Platz 1
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Germany
Please send us your enquiries exclusively via the contact form.

Due to the large number of enquiries, there may be delays in responding. We ask for your understanding.


Source URL (modified on 26.05.2013):https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/publikationen/scientific-assessment-evaluation-of-indicator