Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints

Linus Blomqvist; Barry W. Brook; Erle C. Ellis; Peter M. Kareiva; Ted Nordhaus; Michael Shellenberger

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001700

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Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints

Linus Blomqvist ,

* E-mail: linus@thebreakthrough.org

Affiliation Breakthrough Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America
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Barry W. Brook,

Affiliation The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Erle C. Ellis,

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Peter M. Kareiva,

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Ted Nordhaus,

Affiliation Breakthrough Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America
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Michael Shellenberger

Affiliation Breakthrough Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America
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Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints

Linus Blomqvist,
Barry W. Brook,
Erle C. Ellis,
Peter M. Kareiva,
Ted Nordhaus,
Michael Shellenberger

Published: November 5, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001700

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Article misrepresents actual Footprint methodology

Posted by overshoot on 05 Nov 2013 at 22:28 GMT

For a better understanding of the actual Footprint accounting method, see
Boroucke et al. (2013) in the Ecological Indicators Journal (Vol. 24: pages 518-533)
http://www.footprintnetwo...

For a more succinct reply than the one we published in this PLOS Biology edition, visit:
http://www.footprintnetwo...

Competing interests declared: I developed the Ecological Footprint Method (in collaboration with William E. Rees) and am president of Global Footprint Network (www.footprintnetwork.org)

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Article misrepresents actual Footprint methodology

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